I love these videos, but I can't help becoming unspeakably envious of you. I think you have my perfect life. The life of literature and writing, smoking your pipe while talking about Tolkien. What a pleasure. It's even made me think about joining the ministry. I've had a long crisis through faith and think it might be best for me to study to become a priest. I was confirmed as an Anglican when I was twelve, then went through many years of tacit atheism (due to peer pressure) and on a very esoteric level think I might believe in God again. I'll have to wait and see. And I think I need a degree before I'd get into a seminary.

Most appropriate dear Sir 👍. I feel like we are standing on the edges of Mount Doom, surrounded by a belching sea of molten magma, curtains of flickering flames tonguing at our skins.But often times, truth is stranger than fiction

I very much appreciate these videos Malcolm! I believe I found your channel by researching smoking pipes that are works of art… Then you rekindled my love for Lord of the Rings books… so I am re-reading the lot and I have also been reading books in my shelves that were frosted with dust… I credit you and your channel for myself switching off the TV and sitting down with a book! Many thanks, from the USA ( in New England ) Cheers!

Happy Birthday!

you are great! I'am Cosimo from sud Italy (Vieste) God Bless you

Your videos are always a pleasure to watch 👍😊

The world is getting darker and darker but with Malcom here, it brings so much brightness. 😊😊

Happy birthday 🎂 🙏🥃

Thanks for all the videos you do, you're a legend! ✌️👍

Imagine this voice narrating all of Tolkien!! Andy is incredible but Malcolm!!🤯❤️

Do I smoke? No - Pipe? No - Interested in Tolkien? No - read much? No - did I get this recommended? Yes - did I watch it? Yes - and enjoyed too 😊

I noticed the bottle of Ardbeg in the back. Well done!

I would sit down and watch a full 60 hour video of you reading LOTR and smoking your pipe.

I just finished the summary of Treebeard’s visit to Isengard on my annual read through so this is timely. A pleasant distraction in a world that feels all to similar to the darkening Mordor

idk why YT sent this to me sir. but this video made my day.

I really enjoy your reading and the wonderful pictures you create with the words! Thank you for sharing with us.

I love me some pipeweed

Keep reading as much Tolkien as humanly possible!! Just absolutely wonderful

I wish I really understood how to read and understand poetry. Guess my junior high literature class didn't cover that. Mr. Guite I really enjoy hearing you read the poems. Merry Hanning

When I Survey is one of my favorite hymns. Thank you for discussing the hymn today. I was at the Getty Sing 2024 in Nashville and sang in the choir. Also, I interrupted you on Monday morning as you were checking in and asked if you would autograph my copy of your wonderful book, David's Crown. You graciously agreed, for which I extend great thanks. It was an honor to meet you for that brief encounter and a great joy to hear you read your poems in the sessions. You are a treasure. God bless and keep you. Merry Hanning

That beard has a lot of pleasant aroma

Badass

I just want to curl up on the rug in front of that fireplace and drift to the sounds of grandfather reading, the crackling firewood and the scent of his pipe drifting through my dreams.

no way i missed u in nashville

That's quite a nice pipe.

And I thought I was crazy 🤣

This bloke looks like a cross between a mad professor and Planet of the Apes.

You are the best kind of nerd❤

Dear Mr. Guite, do you feel that the text of Shakepeare’s plays in “The Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works” is a preferred version? I am looking at the Folio Society’s beautiful new complete works edition, and am not sure about the version of text which they have selected, as I’d really like to re-read a number of plays. I enjoy your time shared here immensely. Thank you. Best, Liz

@MalcolmGuitespell I'd really love to hear your opinion and experiences on tongue bite. You look like a fast puffer and you smoke bent stemmed pipes too. so please fill us in with your experiences on the subject.

Something i have thought about is the resources, science,and craftsmanship that goes into these things we love.The grains for beer the tobacco and wood for smoking.

Its really so good to see this its a very comfortable watch.

You may have done a spell on it already, but I think another spell in the library on when Eustace is turned back into a boy in Voyage of the Dawn Treader would be lovely. It’s such a profound picture of how Jesus tears off our old selves and clothes us in new righteousness.

Beautiful pipe. Well made and well deserved

Incredible.

I feel like an old soul as I wish I could sit there with you smoking my pipe and reading or looking through those old books. Preferably with a quill, ink and paper to jot down notes.

KZbin recommended this video to me, and I have to say this video has brought such a comfort into my life. There's a kindness and peace listening to you speak, reading from my favorite author, and just being yourself. Thank you!

αγαπητε φιλε εισαι πολυ καλος. Σε ευχαριστουμε

I enjoyed that so much!

Top notch! Now do one when it's clean

Please be my Uncle

My father smoked a pipe I remember, that's what it reminds me of.

Consider me drawn. The light is irresistible.

Wonderfully enriching Malcolm, thank you!

Oh, I enjoy your creation! Joy

Ppl have been making weed and tobacco pipes forever. But the glass game for weed is insane. How do you even clean the wood with the tobacco resin ?

Very gripping. I love your prose - beautiful. I recently discovered your channel: I’m hooked! All my favorites: Lewis, Tolkien, pipe smoking… wonderful!

My question is how you managed to amass such a wonderful collection of seemingly vintage looking books. I wonder how much it all cost?

Hobbits always knew how to party. 🤙

Hearing that aloud I was even more impressed by the use of alliteration that is so common in the Anglo Saxon poetry that Tolkien loved. My other observation is how modern the character of Eowyn is, a woman who disguises her gender but then uses it to her advantage, when you think this was written by a man in the late 1940's, well over 70 years ago. People who have never read him but criticise his work for being too 'male oriented' forget he had very complex strong female characters like Eowyn and Galadriel.