“My writing is far inferior to that of the elves..” It’s really sad that we don’t have more film and audio recordings of this man, and CS Lewis.. I’ll also say that a character like Dr. Who is based on this type of personality, a specifically English personality, the tweedy English don. That the contemporary BBC doesn’t understand this, and is trying to make Dr. Who something else, just shows you how stupid and vulgar they are. Boneheads, without any true sensibility at all..

2:49 what has it got in its pocketses

17:30 this man asked JRR Tolkien “where do you get your ideas from?”

I think Antony Hopkins would be perfect to play him a film of his life...

Anyone else feel hostility from that BBC interviewer? Or is that just britishness?

I just witnessed Tolkien writing Elvish with a fountain pen... magic

7:20 - "Hobbits? Well, when you meet them, you know. There's hobbits by nature and there's hobbits by stature and there's hobbits who happen to be both, yeah..." It is expressing a lot. The look right after the laugh, says even more.

I think the world's continents changed after the flood to get what we have today, I think since Tolkien is a Christian that is what he was thinking

I know they are father & son but my they sound similar. I must learn more.

Thanks for this wonderful archive ❤

26:01 - that “I havent noticed any” is so wholesome

The man who single-handedly wrote the fantasy genre. Modern fantasy writers have him for inspiration.

J.R.R.’s daughter Priscilla: One of Priscilla’s greatest contributions to the preservation of her father’s work, came through her years of engagement with the Tolkien Society, a membership organization and charity devoted to promoting the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien. While her brother Christopher, who was known to fans as the editor of Tolkien’s posthumous works, lived in France for most of his life, Priscilla remained in Oxford, and became engaged in fan communities. Christopher was only able to attend one event by the Tolkien Society during his lifetime: the 1992 Centenary Conference. Priscilla, on the other hand, was an annual presence at the Tolkien Society and became particularly known for generously hosting fans at her home. She was also the family’s photographic archivist of her father’s works. She went through all of her fathers papers and preserved them at Oxford.

4:22 "any author is obliged to call on his stock - private stock" what does that mean?

this interviewever is a major fan of the lore

Him talking in the dark tongue of Mordor qas great, simply great

Can you imagine the things we wouldn't have if this man died in WW1? Now go figure what all those men who died in the World Wars could've done for this world if they hadn't died.

I feel like he’s talking about historical events not something that he actually created.

I just want to say thank you for your hard work putting this video together, it is appreciated!

And now we know where Rowley Burkin came from 😅

I think Tolkien's theological thesis of good and evil as extrapolated through Christianity runs circles around C. S. Lewis'. It would have been fascinating for Tolkien to have written a book dedicated to his philosophy of Christianity, like Lewis did, I think his conception of ethics might have been quite different. Although he seemed shy and wanted to keep his conceptions to himself, preferring not to challenge or propose his own version of official Catholic dogma and to instead imply it through his art. When people reduce hobbits to being simple traditional Catholics, I think people miss the point of Tolkien's statement that as he says here, the good characters do more damage than the bad ones in the final outcome of the story - simple resistance and sacrifices of desires to temptation don't work out as they ought to. It might even be alluded to that in the end result, the one trait of Christ he says might be ascribed to Frodo, of enduring suffering, and bearing through persecution, may just as accurately, between the lines, be described as a trait of Gollum. Tolkien said Frodo does not embody all of the traits of Christ though, since for Christ it does not matter how much a person has sinner, the goodness of Christ is supposed to redeem the seemingly irredeemable who are in ''too sticky'' as he puts it a situation, a Christ figure in the stickiest situation redeems the sinner with no stickiness, and it would not have been able to alienated Gollum. And precisely that Frodo and Sam alienated Gollum while following what may seem as, the perfect Catholic dogmatic way of life at home, is where the paradox in Tolkien's religious impact his background had upon his books lies. C. S. Lewis, on the other hand, lazily just hands an allegorical Christ in the symbol of a silly talking Lion who has a perfect ethic of selflessness. It is tragic that with such a good character, the videogame of Gollum could not be more interesting.

Words fall short. ln loving memory to this giant. I hope to meet him on the other side. In deep devotion I bow to this mighty human❤‍🔥

He appears to be such a kind-hearted and honest man fully without guile.

At 8:32, you can see the universal rawness of war in a man’s soul that knows he will never ever be able to forget how it touched his life. Being a Marine, I connected with this moment.

Tolkien told the true history of our world. I'm convinced. ✨️

The actor who plays the captain in Titanic who is also Professor Stein in the Flash and Legends of Tomorrow would be the perfect actor to play Tolkien in a film about him! Hehe! Just sayin!

Tolkien's work is just a different level of fiction. The word 'genius' is so abused it's nearly lost it's meaning.... But I've no other word for this man. He was a genius.

The interviewer looks like a young Ian mckellen

Will always miss Christopher ❤️

I wonder if Christopher heard his father read these out loud. Reasonably likely, in my estimation. In any case, I would guess that Tolkien's own reading style of his poetry must have influenced Christopher to some extent.

Thank you for sharing this! It is wonderful!!

it's a strange but sweet feeling that tickles our minds as we listen to John Ronald respond mysteriously to those journalists from 1968. An insider's feeling. We know what they didn't know at the time. Thanks to Christopher, we know the history of the Silmarils, we know the captivating beauty of the forests of Doriath, of the willows of Nan-Thatren bathed by the waters of Sirion. We have all imagined the mountainous walls of the Crissaegrim protecting Gondolin. We all wept for the outrages suffered by Hurin and his children, and by so many other children of Illuvatar. So many legendary stories, so many mythical landscapes are discovered with each word written by Tolkien. Hearing the master speak to people who knew nothing about Beleriand and the splendors and miseries that took place there gives me a selfish feeling of love for the spirit of this man. We feel close to him, because, thanks to the colossal work of his son, the history of Middle Earth is part of our lives. Love you John and Christopher!!!

Seeing him write Elvish was CRAAAAAAZYY. Incredible.

he looks like a hobbit

14:16 i understand that propaganda might have been a touchy subject closer to the war, but my god did the interviewer have a lecturing tone he felt to be twice tolkien's age in spirit

He is so erudite and yet so playful and lively! I like him!

My favorite Roman Catholic.

0:21 "very laborious", "long", "through" -progression 1:27 "understand" 03:28 "Escapism" 4:48 "Admire" 7:56, 9:47, 14:11, 23:25 "connect" 14:14 "obligation" 17:24 "it grew into it" -progression 19:32, 23:05 "reason" 19:43 "explain" 20:44 "Basic"

I read all his books... he's a genius. And loved trees just like me.

He is basically Bilbo.

03:46 At first, it seems like nothing to him, but by the time you get to 04:42... oh my, how beautiful.

"The made thing won't be remembered unless it says something." ....wow.

8:00 onwards some counts Tolkien and nietzche werent so apart here

9:39 If Gandalf "had the ring, he would be FAR worse than Sauron, because he would be righteous and self-righteous." What an incisive insight...coercion, even for good ends!

My absolute hero, I wish I could talk to him myself.

The man came out of ww1, there is no doubt in my mind that influenced these stories. It was the end of Christendom in Europe

Thank you for the video compilation.

What a lovely man

When Tolkien died god rewarded him god status and alowd him to creat a hole new universe of his own who would like to be born there I no I would in the next life

I think Jonathan Pryce would be amazing as Tolkien at this age.