I have long been enamored with this particular poem by Prof. T. A couple of years ago I did about 40 takes to try to do my own version. I cannot recite it in my own American accent, but must somehow "channel" Tolkien. I listened to my final version and went back to this original reading and only then realized that he didn't flip or trill every last "R"...tree, grey, drip. My own contribution is some extra feeling and a slight stammer on n-noisome, which seems appropriate. In any case I am pleased with my latest version and would be happy to share a Drive link to anyone interested

Note to self 1:18 3:30 4:29 5:44 7:38

the last true child of j.r.r tolkien.

I suppose there's some poetic irony that he was too tired ultimately to finish his work, if, you believe that the entire impetus for his writing is heavily based on death.

Straaaange, this song is always meant to be sad, slow and lyrical, but Tolkien himself reads it like a comedy😂: fast and energetical! All I hear is an Italian speaking and gesturing actively🤣

Meanwhile in Rings of Power Ai! laurrrrrrië lantarrrrrrrr lassi súrrrrrrrrrrrrinen

I’ve heard a number of times of the myth that JRR Tolkien was only working on The Silmarillion because it was keeping him occupied and he never intended to let his work be published. So I’m glad to hear Christopher refute that myth since I didn’t believe a man who spent his life writing a work would not want people to read it.

Christopher looks so much like his father, especially in the lower part of his face, but his eyes are entirely his mother Edith’s. Incredible family resemblance.

We should give a lot more credit to this man, than we already do. Without him so much amazing lore would have been forever lost.

The final minutes; so very moving. What incredible lives JRR and Christopher had, both in this world and the secondary world. I fear I will never be able to read everything and can only imagine how Tolkien felt knowing he couldn’t complete his masterpiece. And yet a masterpiece his writings are, nonetheless.

Not worried at all. I live from day to day X

Wow, such a bad read,... Feels like he is reading a shopping list.

Those last sentences, with all of the "and"s are just a marvel.

İ wish brian herbert was like this

The only one native speaker I have in my quenya lessons.

0:20 "oh Mario, i retarded"

christopher tolkien was far more comfortable during interviews than his father..

This is great. For all the hype, the good stuff often doesn't have a lot of views.

bro was mad there was no epic english mythology and said fuckit I'll do it myself

I can’t stop listening to this

R.I.P thank you for taking your time to make your fathers work available even after his death.

Este poema es precioso.

Pure magic.

You can sense the passion he has for his own fathers novels. His dad was most certainly his hero.

It was a father son collaboration almost from the beginning

Tolkien himself said of the LOTR books he wrote, "They are fundamentally a religious and Catholic work." To not understand the Catholic meaning in the books to not know them in depth. I look forward to seeing more videos from your channel. Thank you.

And now we are stuck with the grandson. The true 3rd darklord.

Many of you might know this, and I'm *very* late to the party - but there is a beautiful rendition of "(The) Song of Durin" by Clamavi De Profundis. Go check it out :)

Tolkien has such a blessed laugh...

this is my first time hearing the man's voice.....yep, he sounds like what I always imagined he would

I find it very interesting how he doesn’t always pause at the end of the lines like you would expect, but sometimes in the middle of them. The cadence of his speech is very distinct and I can’t tell if it’s just the way he talks or not because there aren’t a lot of recordings of him speaking in Elvish.

Did Tolkien, adapt songs, to put in LOTR? Or, are they original compositions?

Thank you Tolkien Society, thank you God Tolkien

It was when Christopher retired, that Amazon struck. Christopher was like Gondor, while he stood, Middle-earth could thrive.

He's done quite well there he should keep at it.

I had a wish, once upon a time, that I would meet them, father and son, and ask them a thing or two. Like walking in a meadow, looking at the bees, butterflies, and birds, and just talking about all the Ages and theirs events. Then I would go home, satisfied, and paint a mural of the Two Trees of Valinor, Laurelin and Telperion, on my living room wall.

This always reduces me to ponder my own yearnings and regrets.

i love this poem

I want AI to recreate his voice and make a audio version of his books

It sounds like Finnish--- to one who does not speak Finnish. I had heard Tolkien based Quenya on Finnish and Sindarin on Welsh.

it's interesting to note that chris was THE person that was read to by tolkien, and here he is reading this

Thank you for posting this!!

There is no story quite like The Silmarillion. I've listened to the audiobook by Martin Shaw at least three dozen times, and I still find new things and new mysteries to daydream about still to this day. Losing Christopher was a major loss, to us all, and mostly to the Tolkien Foundation. I have a bad feeling they are going to start corporatizing all these stories even worse than they did with that god awful shltshow Rings of Power.

I would have much prefered this if it was just footage of Tolkien, uninterupted by pretentious twits.

{1,7} {peat, put} <./pace> 'TEST: INDICATE: SHOULD: SUM' <./bait> Old Kine <./wait> Our Adept <./make> Androgynous Immutable. <./veil> Young Jyndabyne <./take> PATIENCE <./peat> Fearlessness

Bet he wished he could sing it!!...... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnq2q6uaesx3ebc

Won't play, "An error occurred. Please try again later." How much later?

The guy that call the Hobbits the bourgeoisie and the Orcs the proletariat wait to start a revolution is talking complete nonsense. Clearly the men and hobbits are the forces of good and the orcs are the forces of evil. I do hate it when posh t w a t s look at everything through a Marxist lens, it’s so boring. They haven’t even read the books why did the BBC even include them.

You’re fat hitler

Homie would go bonkers if he saw what they're now doing with his father's work. He seems like such a dedicated and a fiercely loyal man to his father.