"Every time there's progress something old is lost and for Tolkien it's having lived through the industrial revolution to see of course men develop a better way to kill each other" "I think these books among all the other great fantasy that's ever been written have stood such a strong test of time. I was like hi yeah I think I even wrote insults in my notes I was like it's like an insult stuff," he said.

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