Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

Poem by Robert Browning.
www.bartleby.com/246/654.html
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[@rolanddeschain5161]

Thank you Sai for this reading.

[@KyleKatarn145]

Just got done reading the Dark Tower series again. It's so fantastic. Possibly my favorite book series ever.

[@KyleKatarn145]

Of course that's very different to this, but still *heavily* inspired.

[@Lykyk]

(it's actually just mediocre)

[@KyleKatarn145]

Fite me scrublord, I'm ripped.

[@Lykyk]

KyleKatarn145 All the fitness in the world won't save you from your shit-taste though Especially if you trade in gay ponies for lean gainz

[@KyleKatarn145]

Then I shall keep my gay ponies and bid you a good day, sir or madam.

[@heyitsthejster1]

Good ole Roland of Gilead ;)

[@rollochairbreaker230]

Long days and pleasant nights, my friend.

[@c4sper4]

And may the sun never fall in your eye.

[@MadsOcto7]

I see you haven't forgotten your father's face

[@THEMEISTER004]

Aye, ye speak true

[@RiftVaulter]

This is better than good, the voice of the actor perfectly captures the boyish distrust and wonderful nature of this poem!

[@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz]

Carl, I was litterally just reciting this opening by memory and thought to find someone reading the whole bit in a goal and this is what immediately popped up. Good read, sir. Dont let this project die.

[@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz]

I would humbly request if you read this post that you should do a recitation of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. On reexamination of this channel I am disappointed to not find it in the impressive works you have collected here. It is easily the most soul crushing piece I can think of and it is a work that, imo, fills a place that no other work does. Say what one will about the man, but this work was his last and most seminal production. While the left lauds his earlier youthful works that celebrate his, no pun intended, gaiety we see this darker, more serious and frankly superior work ignored. For those who doubt the quality of The Ballad of Reading Gaol to be included in such lofty works presented on this channel I would challenge you to find a work that fills its place anywhere in history.

[@rolanddeschain5161]

oh this is the poem Stephen King based his book series on.

[@rolanddeschain5161]

@Roland Deschain Are you me Twinner Sai?

[@samharness24271]

Yar!

[@michaeltrent2726]

All things serve the beam

[@HeartOfThePack]

@Roland Deschain You say true, I say thank you!

[@bkmustaciola]

Another reason to love the epic Sargon

[@omiorahman6283]

Better than the movie

[@hairaticrick6227]

Knowing Browning's work I was not surprised how Kings Tower stories ended, or not. :-)

[@poguemahone1031]

Bravo, sir! I absolutely love your narrations!

[@TomorrowWeLive]

Love it. More poetry pls!

[@thishandleistacken]

Fun fact: both the Golden Dawn (and Crowley's successor order the A.'.A.'. and other Rosicrusian inspired Orders) have this on their reading list as does Cicaca 3301

[@EarFarce4]

always happy to see another upload on this channel

[@masterofnone8400]

Thanks Sargon

[@placeholder3163]

The first picture looked like Shrek and Steve Shives had a child that was 70 years old.

[@sonofode902]

Thank you sir, for this one.

[@peteretepify]

I was listening to this week in stupid and my neighbors wife came to the door. I went with her and had my old and dearly loved friend die in my arms.

[@John-js2uj]

This doesn’t make sense but somehow is creepy

[@cantwakeup4967]

Could you read some texts by ancient philosophers, like Epicurus or Seneca?

[@MrTopHatZombie]

I think it would be quite enjoyable to listen to you read The King in Yellow.

[@emilyalexandra5959]

Thanks!

[@kyleno4mk27]

Excellent

[@NotForHire42]

I love how someone wrote a poem based on Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' series.

[@seantaylor8376]

its the other way around. King was inspired by the poem

[@swiftyasaninja]

It's time to stop

[@janegeary6013]

where are your parents

[@petehill7280]

Errr... Dude, Robert Browning died in 1890. King was inspired by this poem. Browning himself was inspired by a combination of the fairy tale "Childe Rowland", the French epic poem "The Song of Roland", and a story-within-a-story told in one of the plays of Shakespeare. The stupidity of most people nowadays baffles me.

[@SirGeeSantos]

@notforhire42 and a pretty decent one at that!

[@Kinsman19]

Did you have the microphone taped to your soft palate for this one, Sarg’n? Jesus Christ.

[@paulbrule5897]

Sargon, is this you? May I suggest you the volsung saga, I would love to hear some passage with your voice

[@enkidu-travissummers2709]

Try "Mythes and Legegends" podcast. Done to a tea...

[@TheGyuuula]

Made me want to play Disciples III again.

[@KincadeCeltoSlav]

The well forged Blade of Durendal remains Unbroken

[@jhope9860]

👄 bravo

[@kojakbandit4537]

This was good

[@White20445]

Sargon, I would love to have your personal input on your readings as well as background on what it is hat you're reading. Why did you pick it? Your interpretation of the text? Why do you feel it relevant? War imagery Background on who wrote it? What events were taking place when it was written?

[@GeatMasta]

Can you do the letter from prester john?

[@MikeMafiaII]

Sargon, please do the Alexiad sometime soon!

[@Longshanks1690]

Now read anything by Aristophanes.

[@arsec42]

Pls do the divine comedy

[@alcw6346]

I meant to point out on your TWIS re casting of Idris Elba as Roland that there is a precedent for a black gunslinger in Speedy Parker of the Talisman. I don't disagree with any other point and like you disagree with the casting choice. Both the Talisman and the Black House are well worth the read and are heavily tied into the Dark Tower story if you have the chance to read them.

[@hairaticrick6227]

As is Wind Through a Keyhole.

[@peteretepify]

Afterwards I wanted to hear the part about "when a man near death seems dead indeed." Who was narrating? Sargon!

[@drakoinx]

HAIL ROLAND ! HAIL GILIEAD!

[@yjer7688]

read the children of odin, some norse mythology. or read the golden fleece or the children's homer. classic mythology is very interesting.

[@rolandrush5172]

😉

[@whatthehellimbored]

read some Charles Bukowski

[@drakoinx]

Is this Sargon of akkad?

[@denonstakelin985]

Hile gunslinger

[@c.benmansour3546]

What if...the Dark Tower is real? Cough North pole cough.

[@travg1759]

Hile Sargon!

[@Haruspex528]

Sounds like heelvsbabyface

[@rm2kking]

I love you Sargon, but this should sound far more bleak. It sounds as if you are reciting this at school.

[@vollmacuser]

Yeah, it's stirred, not merely shaken.

[@vollmacuser]

Check this one out kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIqWoICIgct0qLc

[@manwell8029]

I also came I am not sure whether you have herd of it but you should recite this ancient book, i think its called the "Quran"

[@noneednoneed5752]

He lied on every word !

[@pwmiles56]

You might as well be reading the news. No

[@rolandcunington9447]

This is weird

[@jackvogel9777]

Meh. Read / listen to Chesterton’s Lepanto if you want real poetry. Of course, if you want to be considered an intellectual, by all means read Browsing.