Christopher Tolkien VIDEO interview compilation - CleanCut

Christopher Tolkien video interview compilation - CleanCut edition
GB Smith wrote to JRRT in 1916:
"...may you say the things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them..."
Thank You CJRT for taking up the torch after JRRT.
42:28 CJRT reads The Grey Havens
58:16 CJRT in France 2019
39:17 Priscilla Tolkien reads "Leaf by Niggle"
Credit / Source:
- "A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien" docu (1996)
- "Secrets of Middle-earth" docu (2003)
- "Aubusson weaves Tolkien" (2019)
- These 3 videos are the only known/released footage of CJRT to date.
Baillie Tolkien (CJRT's wife) recalls in 2012:
“During all that time, I watched him type with three fingers on an old machine that
had belonged to his father....It was a literary gold mine, but also a painstaking job and
left Christopher exhausted, not to say depressed. But never mind, he would not stop there."
Other paper interviews with CJRT:
2001-12-11 by EW: ew.com/article/2001/12/11/lor...
2009-05-05 by The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books/200...
2012-07-12 by Le Monde (French): www.lemonde.fr/culture/articl...
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[@gib59er56]

Christopher was the only one of J.R.R.`s children, who deeply loved his fathers work. He has given us so many books to find the deep and vast history Tolkien had and from the unfinished works, like the Silmarillion and the letters of Tolkien. He published the 12 books on the LotR`s and the Silmarillion`s constant additions and changes that J.R.R. made throughout his life. I am sorry, I am having a hard time putting my thought to word. Without Christopher being so eager, and supportive of the entire writings of the Master.

[@scottthomas5907]

It is out of my love and unwavering respect for JRR Tolkien, that I hold such contempt for Amazon for trying to destroy the legacy that obviously inspired this video. Some things were meant to be left alone, and any attempt to disrupt the canon and lore is blasphemous

[@erikbuysbricks1562]

All fans of Tolkien are pretty lucky his son was this involved in his fathers works, and after his fathers passing worked hard to give us more. He could just as easily have not cared about any of it.

[@kevinrussell1144]

This, like all the times we get to listen to Christopher, is wonderful. Yes, Christoher was THE star of the children, the one who loved unconditionally and understood what his father was all about.

[@IrishTechnicalThinker]

I do find it funny and ironically hilarious that Tolkien disliked allegory being placed onto his writing. Then Christopher Tolkien goes on to describe everything his father wrote into allegory saying The ring is the machine. I disagree his analysis on his own father's work because Tolkien said the ring can be anything, lust, greed, anger, hatred, envy and all desires of men and women. Not just one thing.

[@peterjobovic3406]

Christopher was a co-author of many lines in the world of Arda, during JRR's lifetime and still gave all the credit to his father.

[@eniigma2943]

Thank you, Christopher, for not being another Brian Herbert. What a legend :)

[@ChrisFenly]

I could listen to this man talk all day, I wish he were still with us. 😣

[@tehdoors]

RIP Christopher

[@cally77777]

I also had a tear in my eye, when I heard Christopher explain, in French, about how he'd been worried about his father in the night, when he was very small, and after he went downstairs and found him, he cried, and left a tear on his father's painting. And his father kindly did not fuss, but painted over it. And this was the same painting that he had come to France to see, when he was an old man, so many years later.

[@brutusmagnus3971]

This was such a pleasure to watch and deeply warmed my spirit to hear Christopher recount his father's work, which has left an indelible impression on my experience in this wonderful and at times terrible, mysterious world.

[@thomasstevens6661]

Thank you for publishing this interview. I dream of places in Middle-Earth to visit. He was incredible.

[@pphedup]

9:39

[@noralemmer]

Thank you sooo much for this! ❤️

[@bri_____]

The discussions about a "secondary world", remind me of carl jungs work

[@patrickwells8169]

A wonderful video. Thank you.

[@jonweber.8.756]

Thank you so much for making this.

[@EeanWooo-to9kd]

Thanks for this wonderful archive ❤

[@MrBshaffe2]

I love this