00:00 Hobbits 00:45 LOTR 01:07 Elvish 01:27 Allegory 02:02 Reviewer 02:10 Death 03:16 Fan mail 03:28 Escapist 03:38 When was 13 03:46 Writes Elvish 04:45 FOOD?! 05:01 Beer 05:21 Smoking 05:38 Invented Ring inscription/Black Speech 05:55 Black Speech 06:07 Cult --- B&W --- 06:42 (no audio) pipe w/glasses 07:01 (no audio) takes off glasses 07:20 Hobbits 07:37 Roos, memory 08:04 Life after WW2 09:30 Manor Road 10:35 Recollection 11:03 Elves Dwarves Men 13:12 Silm 13:50 Silm 14:16 BBC 1962 --- Oxford Tour --- 20:45 Walks into house 21:10 Tour#1 better quality 23:30 Tour#2 low quality 25:35 Fireworks 25:45 Claps/Yeah 26:05 Aerial view 26:33 In a field
@stoicepictetus3875 Жыл бұрын
This is very helpful indeed. Thank you!
@paulnolan4971 Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@zzodysseuszz Жыл бұрын
That black speech though. Absolutely amazing
@pphedup8 ай бұрын
Wow, thank you!
@CreationBrosZone-km5be5 ай бұрын
Thanks.
@BlindDwellerАй бұрын
To hear Tolkien himself speak out loud one of his own beautiful languages is such an indescribable feeling. There will truly never EVER be another writer like him.
@Hollywoohorse Жыл бұрын
He's exactly as I imagined him, Gandalf incarnate with those sly little smiles and quick bright eyes
@gib59er56 Жыл бұрын
Yes dakota!! The Man is the Wizard in a tweed coat!! Tolkien was so unappreciated by the critics and those of that ilk. But us geeks( not really geeks) know the value of Tolkien.
@silverdragon710 Жыл бұрын
Exactly as you'd imagine him yup. In his tweed suit with a pipe. And next to a fireplace so charming
@mungomidge1090 Жыл бұрын
Ian McKellen based Gandalfs voice from Tolkiens.
@jimmybailey7198 Жыл бұрын
He's like that but with a hint of everyone else, a little Bilbo in there for sure
@jamescerone Жыл бұрын
I see more Bilbo than Gandalf honestly. You can tell he’s a bit grumpier in everyday life than he lets on lol
@etienneporras7252 Жыл бұрын
"Oh Lord, I've made a mistake, haven't I." The sheer WEIGHT of that statement shows just how much love and devotion this man poured into his work.
@diverguy3556 Жыл бұрын
It's at 4:19 for those who are curious
@creepyjk863 Жыл бұрын
you can really tell how fast his mind worked. its like constantly bubbleing up with thought
@gib59er56 Жыл бұрын
Yes Creepy! Man does talk fast, his mouth is trying to keep pace with his thoughts. Not very clear as a speaker, which is ironic, as he was a professor and spoke for hours at a time. I guess you get used to it after a bit. The man was an absolute genius. He gave us so much, and I never tire of his works.
@Micolash_is_behind_you Жыл бұрын
@@gib59er56 LOL i thought you were calling his mind creepy lololololol
@LonersGuide Жыл бұрын
For some reason it was more common in those days (early to mid-20th century) more common for English speaking people to speak very fast like that. Whether it was before I don't know, since there were scarcely any recordings of people before then. Probably has something to do with not being dumbed down by television and other media.
@Crabbadabba11 ай бұрын
@@LonersGuide yeah, you had to get your thoughts out quickly. You could hand write it but that was kind of slow. There were typewriters, but you couldn’t really rely on that on the go.
@josephjoe418010 ай бұрын
Tolkien was so immersed in his own lore that he spoke of his own elvish writing "as inferior to the elves," as if they were a real race that actually existed. That's so badass. I love this man.
@Friendofoe5 ай бұрын
That is a charming remark and I could not agree more
@jimmyj15483 ай бұрын
Great remark. I thought the same. 🙏🏽
@Friendofoe3 ай бұрын
@@josephjoe4180 Well, things have got to a point that it seems that it is Tolkien’s world the one that really existed and exists, and ours is make believe
@HúrinThalion-30192 ай бұрын
Exactly, and I think it’s because he believed the elves actually did exist at one point, and maybe still do but hidden from men. I read somewhere that he wrote down the general premise of what he really thought the world was once like, not like exactly word for word there was an Aragorn there was a Gandalf, but a story that is an “application😂” of what once was. Or something like that, I’m not quite sure. This man is pure genius.
@primus7776 Жыл бұрын
How much pleasure, joy and escapism from the mundane has this man given the world. Magnificent to see.
@Suddennew Жыл бұрын
exactly
@morry19965 Жыл бұрын
Wonderfully put :-)
@andrewwilliams2353 Жыл бұрын
His brand of escapism is, as he confirms, an escape from our mechanised, stultifying prison of post industrial living where we are obsessed with Things and not Life in all its facets. Tolkien's greatest gift to us is to help us to become restored to be able to seeithe world as a wonder and a gift
@jimmyj15483 ай бұрын
Then comes The Rings Of Power makers. When they think it best to make it as relatable as possible. Completely misunderstood the source material and the Author
@alexajennelle5722 Жыл бұрын
"No, I don't desire to go and have afternoons talking Elvish to chaps." 😂 Thank you so much for all your time and effort in putting these clips together and for writing out the transcript. It's wonderful!
@BookofGates Жыл бұрын
When one wants Tolkein, only Tolkein will do. Not philosophy, commentary or imitation ie that series (mockery) let's pretend to be Elves 😅. What makes it stand out, is that because he was so meticulous, it makes it very hard to impose values on it, or subvert what is already there. That's why it took so long to get anything close to a good adaption because they cannot corrupt it to suit their ends.
@joepalooka2145 Жыл бұрын
"I'm very fond of beer" ---- LOL what an amazing and wonderful man he was. I first discovered "The Hobbit" and "Lord Of The Rings" as a teenager back in the '60s and I've loved and admired JRR Tolkien ever since.
@truincanada Жыл бұрын
I like to be rlevated...ha!
@jordangroff8978 Жыл бұрын
God, seeing Tolkien write in Elvish himself is like watching Mozart write music, or MIchelangelo making sketches!
@chadbennett7873 Жыл бұрын
One of the statements made in this world filled with more truth that can fit within the words.
@lukeluke7082 Жыл бұрын
You know it wasn’t actually Mozart writing in Amadeus? It’s just a film he was an actor. It would have been equally amazing to see those masters at their craft though we are very lucky to be able to have had video for the best writer of all time
@chadbennett7873 Жыл бұрын
@@lukeluke7082 I'm very sure he was speaking figuratively and it had nothing to do with the film. Nice comment.
@chriszablocki2460 Жыл бұрын
And speaking the languages he invented. He was going off on some forbidden language of Mordor in there.
@carlosmafia Жыл бұрын
Lots of people have plenty of negatives to say about technology, but it's moments like this that you realise, we are truly blessed to have items like this to refer to, hopefully forever.
@chikami6014 Жыл бұрын
His reply to the bbc interviewer around 20:30 was so profound :'D "The made thing, unless it says something, won't be remembered."
@flashpanshmecker Жыл бұрын
I love his smile at the end😁
@ReadingAdam8 ай бұрын
You could tell his intellect was leagues beyond that interviewer, whose mind was blown at the remark. A pity that better men weren't able to record conversations with him.
@florpodesta56123 күн бұрын
A very Elvish reply....
@enkidude16 күн бұрын
Not to mention the instinctive, nearly instant speed he returned it with
@romulomontes8884 Жыл бұрын
I think his personality is kind of a mix between Gandalf and Bilbo. Such a brilliant and nice man.
@johngingerich8776 Жыл бұрын
Yes! I was thinking the same. Sometimes he seems almost uncanny to Bilbo, both in the books and the movies. And of course, the wisdom and comfort of Gandalf. Such a blessing to read his works and see his interviews
@tomschofield5566 Жыл бұрын
Ian McKellen did consciously base his performance of Gandalf on interviews like these.
@DaysofElijah3179 ай бұрын
Gandalf,Bilbo, Fangorn, and Bombidel it seems
@Friendofoe4 ай бұрын
@@romulomontes8884 Right on, and if I were a little child, I would go running to him to hug the old «rascal»
@AS-fu1kd Жыл бұрын
This man was such a precious gift to humanity
@RUDDYHELL2014 Жыл бұрын
Our... Precious 🧟♂️
@Rekaert Жыл бұрын
Tolkien: "I now wanted to try my hand at writing a really stupendously long narrative." Also Tolkien: Goes on to write one of, if not the best, fantasy novels of all time.
@lisazkc256 Жыл бұрын
It is the best, second only to the Silmarilion. No other fantasy author has ever come even close to Tolkien.
@minicle426 Жыл бұрын
@@lisazkc256Challenge accepted. :P
@squamish4244 Жыл бұрын
@@lisazkc256 In the sense of LOTR, yes. Countless authors have followed in his footsteps, or deliberately subverted his tropes, which is itself a comment on his influence, with varying degrees of success, in telling a narrative as complex and dense as LOTR. There are some truly great fantasy authors out there who've made statements as profound as Tolkien's in LOTR, with as much skill in language and elements of narrative structure like pacing. In the sense of the Simarillion, no. The Silmarillion is a friggin Bible of a world from its beginning to its end, and afterwards, loaded with philosophy and theology and incredible storytelling. It's certainly not to everyone's tase, "a phonebook written in Elvish", as one commenter hilariously put it. But if you get it, you understand that nobody has come close to it. The Silmarillion is a truly unique work in fantasy.
@Finarphin Жыл бұрын
The best fictional story written in prose (mostly). Except....there's The Silmarillion.
@Relixification11 ай бұрын
@@squamish4244 The Silmarillion is Tolkein's bible of Middle Earth.
@theintunity7 ай бұрын
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.
@wespenre3418Ай бұрын
War, for whatever reason, is pure destruction. There are no victories--only losses. And as you just wrote, we don't even know the potential of those who were lost. War is anti-spirit.
@doctornov79 күн бұрын
I think about this all the time. We lost a civilisation's worth of young men and the cost has been civilisation.
@johns1625 Жыл бұрын
It's crazy to think that all through this time he was sitting on most of the Silmarillion and he never got a chance to see all the wonder and lore that unfolded after it was published. Imagine all the questions we could ask him.
@ilokivi Жыл бұрын
The work of Christopher Tolkien to edit, compile and publish The Silmarillion, the Unfinished Tales and so much more after his father's death is accordingly valuable as an attempt to provide answers. No less a labour of love.
@Swarm509 Жыл бұрын
@@ilokivi A lot of people seem to forget this when talking about Christopher Tolkien's work on this. It isn't perfect but I don't think anyone could of done it "perfectly" outside of JRR himself, and even he was constantly revising as he worked.
@Timeless-wisdom-now9 ай бұрын
He already answered them in his writings
@HiHi-lt1cb8 ай бұрын
I wish he got to see it published, he worked on it for so long!
@DarkIcon815 ай бұрын
@@Swarm509exactly. It took him 11 years to write LOTR. And he almost scrapped it again, near the end, and started over.
@AudioThrift10 ай бұрын
He has such an infectious smile.
@jeffvannda1250 Жыл бұрын
I read The Hobbit in 1970..took it to school and hid it in my class books and read it non-stop..move on to The Rings...got an A in Tolkien..not so high marks in classes ..it was such a place to go for a boy so unhappy at home, school and tragedy... reading always took me away
@captainaryan26 Жыл бұрын
Damn ❤
@jet_blast162211 ай бұрын
The Hobbit was required reading as part of the English class curriculum in around Grade 7 or 8 where I went to school in Canada. This was early 90's, but definitely started before that.
@winterbas8927 Жыл бұрын
So... We have a student who left a blank page to thank for The Hobbit
@ryanl87308 ай бұрын
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.
@concept56315 ай бұрын
In spite of all the horrors he bore witness to, he didn't let it consume him and became one of the greatest writers in history.
@hjr20003 ай бұрын
@@concept5631LOTR was about WW1 and evil in this world. He knew the answer - new life in Jesus Christ.
@QFGEE Жыл бұрын
Tolkien’s ability to take the pseudo-intellectual jibber-jabber of the pretentious interviewer and give genuinely intriguing answers is great talent.
@victortunisse6686 Жыл бұрын
My god, that reporter was nasty... Why did he treat him like that?
@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim11 ай бұрын
So disrespectful, how many people wouldn't give their left hand to have one talk with Tolkein and he goes on trying to manipulate Tolkein's words like he's examining a captured enemy. . . .
@OctainServersАй бұрын
I think it's an adversarial style interview (very common in the UK against politicians). Here it comes across as distasteful because it's employed against an artist rather than a politician, but it must be said that this interview was by far the most interesting footage of the lot, so there is something to be said for the style. One must bear in mind that the interviewer is not necessarily advancing their own viewpoint but giving voice to critics and providing the interviewee the opportunity to respond.
@aliciasirena810410 ай бұрын
Journalists always try to trick people on their own words, but how wonderfully Tolkien outsmart that young man there; he was awesome.
@brandonboucher709011 ай бұрын
Imagine being the student who left that page of the exam paper blank that Tolkien out of boredom decided to write the whimsical sentence “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.”
@concept56315 ай бұрын
A canon event
@akamucrimsidae4 ай бұрын
I wonder if that page still exists somewhere?...
@concept56314 ай бұрын
@@akamucrimsidae Maybe its buried somewhere in a mountain of Tolkien's work.
@unlimitedmuphinz Жыл бұрын
Just his way of speech and body language is almost exactly how I imagined Gandalf to be before the movies even came about. Easy going, but knowledge of things few ever knew. If he lived a thousand years I don't think he would run out of stories.
@carloscontrerass4418 Жыл бұрын
The actor actually based his voice off of Tolkiens
@unlimitedmuphinz Жыл бұрын
@@carloscontrerass4418 yep Ian Mckellen indeed did that
@thelionsshare6668 Жыл бұрын
I might be reading into this: when he mentioned the Tempest having more allegorical elements than the other Shakespeare plays, it seemed he was struck with a certain sadness. His best friend, C.S. Lewis, was a professor of medieval and renaissance literature. This is the sort of thing they would've talked about. And then he mentions the inevitability of death.
@jonahnolastnameneeded3130 Жыл бұрын
Both Lewis and Tolkien fought in WWI, they were quite familiar with death. Interesting to imagine that this might’ve come up in a conversation they shared.
@thelionsshare6668 Жыл бұрын
@@jonahnolastnameneeded3130 That's for sure. Tolkien's entire unit was wiped out, while he was in hospital. But I did look this up, when the interview took place. 1968, so that was five years after "Jack" passed away. Charles Williams died in the early 1940s.
@thelionsshare6668 Жыл бұрын
@@jonahnolastnameneeded3130 lol ok... no, I didn't mean death as the subject of conversation, but rather the Tempest. Thinking of the Tempest might've reminded him of Lewis.
@SchillerDD11 ай бұрын
I'm a Tolkien fan since my early childhood. My mom bought me a book every year. And later in my teens all the christopher books came out and I was even more in love with this world. I've read every Middle-earth related book many times over by now (I'm 33 now) and still are amazed and captured by his work. Absolutely amazing man. Amazing work. Amazing life.
@gib59er56 Жыл бұрын
Hearing The Master quote the dark speech of Mordor used in the writing on the One ring was new to me. I have a box set of J.R.R. and Christopher reading from the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion on C D`s. But he does not ever speak the tongue of Mordor. The way he pronounced " nazg" (ring) is a suprise to me. It sounds like he is saying " nazga" almost. Wow, this was a treat for me! I thank you for the posting of this video. Tolkien has been with me since 1977, when I first read the Hobbit in 5th grade. Lord of the Rings in middle school, and the Silmarillion in H.S. I am such a JRRT fanatic/geek, that I have everything ever published by the Tolkien estate, and quite a few books by Humphry Carpenter, and others. I never get tired of Tolkien and his wide world of beings and monsters, and the most epic of all quest tales, up there with Homer and the Illiad. Even better in my eyes and mind.
@sheerluckholmes7720 Жыл бұрын
🦘... Greetings friend...it's a very healthy sign, to be inspired by Tolkien. 👌 Your reflections have taken me back to 1971...final year High School English exam looming...teacher saw me reading a book during class. What are you reading? Lord of the Rings... Sir ! Yes excellent, but we are studying Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy which is in the exam, and LoR isn't ! Yes Sir, but I prefer Tolkien. Teacher with a respectful grin, "Alright just sit at the back of the class and don't disturb anyone." Couldn't stop reading Tolkien, never finished Hardy,passed the exam ! 😂🤣🤫
@gib59er56 Жыл бұрын
@@sheerluckholmes7720 Nice!! Sounds like your teacher was indeed familiar with Tolkien, and thought you were not wasting your time. But you did pass at least, so you made out pretty good in the end! People who I grew up with did not know anything about Tolkien, but for about three of my friends. Now you see all these video`s about his works, and it is all from the movies. I am happy that they are now into Tolkien , but sad at the same time, because so many of them wait for a new video to pop up and teach them. WTH is that. That is lazy , or something I don`t understand. I do not see Gimli with a hemet , bumbling around and joking. Gimli never laughed once even. He was a hardcore dude. I do not see Viggo Mortisson`s face when I think of Aragorn. I see him as I have always seen him, in my minds eye. Same with all of the characters. They did a great job, and I appreciate them, but I know Tolkien would not have let them make movies out of his work. He had a hard time with the fame that the books brought him. He just did not understand the whole thing. Anyway, I am sorry for chewing your ear off. But I always like to speak with a true Tolkien fan, such as you!! Cheers!!
@pphedup9 ай бұрын
@@gib59er56I wish I could still see them all like when I was 15, but Peter Jackson's actors keep stepping in front of my screen.
@gib59er569 ай бұрын
@@pphedup Now YOU have got the right attitude. You have the characters in your head as you imagine them. Not an actor but JRR`s people places and things. I salute you my fellow geek!!!
@RobLewis36 ай бұрын
I just witnessed Tolkien writing Elvish with a fountain pen... magic
@volpilh10 ай бұрын
At 17:58, during the BBC interview, it is incorrectly transscribed in the subtitles that Tolkien said "ethological", when he in actuality, as with this entire part of this interview, is talking about ætiology, namely the matter of how things are created, or caused, or otherwise come about. It certainly might be related to matters of what ought be, or ought be done, (as is also prevalent theme throughout the interview in its whole,) but here, specifically, Tolkien seems to talk about the matter of which how his Arda came about to him, which is an ætiological matter altogether.
@pphedup9 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for this!
@CreationBrosZone-km5be5 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@Free_Range_Hippo Жыл бұрын
It’s like meeting an actual visitor from Middle Earth.
@JoeLeonardo9 ай бұрын
It’s meeting Eru Ilúvatar
@myworldstorm10 ай бұрын
What a truly wonderful man he was, rest in beautiful peace Mr Tolkien.
@carlesdiaz23116 ай бұрын
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.
@cosmicman621 Жыл бұрын
Thank You for posting and creating such a fine historical document. “Work is love made manifest.” -K.Gibran -
Insane to think this legend created a whole new world, a world we all fell in love with
@Adara0073 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for uploading this. I've loved Tolkien's legendarium since coming across The Hobbit, LOTR, and The Silmarillion in late primary school and have read and re-read his works and that by Christopher Tolkien ever since, and owe them both a great deal for creating and preserving, respectively, wondrous worlds so many of us enjoy dwelling in.
@paradox7358 Жыл бұрын
What a wonderful mind. Just imagine all the stories and details that were never noted down and died with him.
@hjpev6469 Жыл бұрын
This is the most English sounding man I have ever heard
@realMaverickBuckley10 ай бұрын
Most middle class people South of Birmingham sounded like him until the 90s.
@hjr20003 ай бұрын
@@realMaverickBuckleyprovided they were Oxbridge types.
@stetsonstarkey10 ай бұрын
Thank you for your great gift to us, JRR.
@noblecamel9 күн бұрын
They say don't meet your heroes, but 'meeting' Tolkien here, he exceeds my expectations, lovely man
@OnAWireStudios3 ай бұрын
Interviews were so much more substantive back then. It was intelligent. It asked deeper questions. I shudder to think just how shallow the interviews would have been if Tolkien had been interviewed today.
@Uberdude6666 Жыл бұрын
I learned a new word today, "trencherman". And it seems like a perfect description of a hobbit... Also Tolkien seems like such a nice, down-to-earth chap. I always had this image of him being a very stern, classical figure, almost a bit larger than life... Probably because of the lack of interview-footage like this in the past
@simonidastankovic2627 Жыл бұрын
Well...he is larger then life (as a creator of the World and Work larger then life.
@getcontrol1 Жыл бұрын
Such a blunt yet profound thing to say - Death! That’s what it’s all about. I love his words about beer, hobbits having no king, and that it was intentionally free from specific religiosity. Language, trees, and a good pipe smoke. Just priceless footage.
@hellomate6399 ай бұрын
It's like the way to worship for real is to live in harmony with life.
@florpodesta56123 күн бұрын
@@hellomate639 Yes!! He is Bilbo.
@dalagnolghislain86949 ай бұрын
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!!!
@VicViperT301Pilot Жыл бұрын
You can see some of the old Tolkien manuscripts at the Raynor library at the University of Marquette in Wisconsin. I highly recommend it. It’s awesome to to see such a marvelous body of work being developed through Tolkien’s notes and drafts. You don’t write something that large without a large degree of outlining which is clearly what Tolkien did; it wasn’t all stream-of-consciousness. You can tell how intentional he was about everything from the dialogue to the smallest descriptions of the environments that the events took place in. Truly a marvelous writer.
@johndogwater Жыл бұрын
Wow! Those black and white silent sections, his expressions and gestures - all I could see was Ian McKellen as Gandalf! I'd never realised he was putting Tolkien in there but it's uncanny!
@spencergellsworth Жыл бұрын
I can see some of the things Ian McKellen incorporated into his portrayal.
@ApocGenesis Жыл бұрын
And Bilbo. His light stammering and putting his waistcoat in his pocket. Tolkien did that when he was talking about the inevitability of death and I wonder if that was self-soothing gesture
@cyclesofstrength Жыл бұрын
"I like feeling elevated. I'm very fond of beer". Me too bud
@duxpeccatorum5 ай бұрын
Absolutely. Watching him write is enough to bring me to tears, it’s so completely beautiful and captivating.
@jamesellsworth9673 Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS SEMINAL INTERVIEW! 'We' began reading Lord of the Rings in our College years--so long ago. This interview means so much to those of us who pored over those pages...and who have revisited them ever since!
@manoflego1238 ай бұрын
I just want to say thank you for your hard work putting this video together, it is appreciated!
@edopronk1303 Жыл бұрын
He is so relaxed and happy.
@HansHammertime Жыл бұрын
While he seems to talk like Gandalf, he himself always compared himself to a hobbit. Just happy to tend his garden, go to bad late, and wake up late
@captainaryan26 Жыл бұрын
@@HansHammertime hobbits are funnier than minions for me 😂
@carcasses513110 ай бұрын
astounding that I have read this man's books for nearly 30 years, but it is only here and now that I have heard him speak
@pphedup9 ай бұрын
60 yrs. I'm reading it now for almost the 10th time.
@awanderer5446 Жыл бұрын
What a brilliant and lovely chap, thanks for compiling and sharing!
@donaldhock594611 ай бұрын
The greatest writer of all time...such a tale....deeply moving,soul stirring...the entirety of fantasy today evolved from this brilliant mind.
@kyro-jaxxsonofkosmos23 Жыл бұрын
He has always been such an inspiration to me. I find his stories to be among my favorites, and his works have moved me to create my own mythology. Thank You!
@dalriadaskillen Жыл бұрын
A man after my own heart, very fond of a beer. Watching him write and speak an Elvish dialect he constructed from Welsh and Finnish, just amazing. Thanks for uploading this.
@duxpeccatorum5 ай бұрын
Thank you God for JRR Tolkien.
@mcnallyaar Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much to whoever took the time to make the transcription so accurate. Very helpful!
@josequijas7663 Жыл бұрын
God, seeing Tolkien drink a beer out of a regular beer mug makes him so humble yet distinguished. I wish i lived in the same time as him to share a mug or two.
@David.Bowman. Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my dad. He was born in Warwick before moving moving around various parts of that area. He had been moved up a couple of years in school as he was quite smart and went on to study English at Leeds in the early 60s, for some reason finishing off at Cardiff. I know his English degree had something to do with Anglo-Saxon and the likes of Beowulf and all the names you hear when you learn about Tolkien’s favourites. Went on to be an English teacher but never displayed any intention of writing his own material. Once, I asked him why and he said it had all been done and by better minds so he didn’t see the point. Nowadays he still enjoys a pipe and speaking in the odd riddle whilst generally living a Hobbit life.
@carlwoods456411 ай бұрын
One of my personal heroes. Im very proud that he served in the Lancashire Fusiliers, im from Lancashire. His son also studied at Stonyhurst College near me. A great Englishman. 🏴
@NavaeraGreenleaf88 Жыл бұрын
I'm getting emotional watching this. He died way before I was born, but I love his creation so much
@tomcage-t1v Жыл бұрын
he reminds me of Gandalf. the way he speaks, the extra words he lets out. and that smile is so comforting. i wish i met him.
@Olivier-cr8ri Жыл бұрын
Merci Monsieur Tolkien. Je vous dois beaucoup.
@johnnyw525 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for collating this! So great to have them all in one place in their best quality. A trove.
@ramprashad2911 ай бұрын
A big thank you sir for what you have contributed to the world
@RampantDaydream2 жыл бұрын
Wow thanks for this dude. Great contribution.
@franciscouch83782 ай бұрын
Incredible human being
@BradsGonnaPlay Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing footage of the opening interview earlier in my life and it was incomprehensible due to the quality. Great job on the restoration to whoever handled it, I could actually understand what he was saying.
@mchurch390510 ай бұрын
Having been a great fan of Tolkien since the 60’s, I find these interviews absolutely fascinating. How a man, under all the triumphs and tragedies, in his life, using his imagination, could so effectively create such a detailed world of hobbits, wizards, orcs, and dark forces, is beyond me…. Thanks for this compilation.
@madkoala2130 Жыл бұрын
If there is one thing in all my years since childhood that surprised me it was this interview. Since I have first readed his autobiography I thought I will never see or hear him talk since he was avid hater of modern technology's and that he had never given to be recorded or interviewed something like this. But thank goodness I was wrong. Thank you for sharing this, because it shows that he wasn't very closed person to the public. Edit: After researching little bit more about this footage, I found out the original BBC edit, and thank you for removing those bits from those students that sound same as today's "Tolkien schoolers" that are actively destroying and humiliating this mans wonderful legacy.
@Light-Shift Жыл бұрын
Idiots and fools cant destroy greatness. Out of their mocking jealousy and twisted morality they only annihilate themselves in the end. Which is exactly what theyre doing. Allowing themselves to be programmed to destroy themselves. If anyone is to be mocked its them. And they are. By their own indoctrinators. Communism and islam.
@Subdood04 Жыл бұрын
I went to the Eagle and Child Pub a number of what’s ago. It was a really moving experience for me. To stand in the room, where he and C. S. Lewis (among others) would sit, smoke and read each others works is difficult to describe.
@alex-internetlubber Жыл бұрын
Those experiences are always special. To be able to somehow take in the aura of those departed from us, we always build off the past
@david9243 Жыл бұрын
A true genius. Nothing describes this man better
@TrailBlazer5280 Жыл бұрын
Excellent compilation! Thank you for putting it all in one place. Have to say that BBC interviewer had me rolling my eyes though 🙄
@PGHEngineer Жыл бұрын
And Tolkein didn't look too impressed by him either!
@michelletewhata7768 Жыл бұрын
The Legend. Creator of the best trilogy fantasy author ever RIP Tolkien xx
@efjay3183 Жыл бұрын
He was so well spoken that he made the word ”eloquent” look like clumsily stuttered slang.
@nintendianajones64 Жыл бұрын
"All stories are about one thing, the inevitability of death."
@VousEtre Жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Thank you for posting.
@kramnam4716 Жыл бұрын
What wonderful enthusiasm and energy and a brain the size of a planet! 🥰brilliant thanks for compiling.
@Element8909 Жыл бұрын
Interviewer: "Would you rather be remembered as a man who has said something or as a man who has made something?" Tolkien: "I don't think you can distinguish. The made thing, unless it says something, won't be remembered".
@Adara0073 ай бұрын
Listening to Tolkien it's clear that Sir Ian McKellen derived so much of his inspiration for playing Gandalf from Tolkien's accent, pattern and timbre of speech.
@Fardawg Жыл бұрын
At 19:33 I know those are encoded subs from the source video, but I believe he said "auctorial" (he pronounced it like "auctora") not "of Torah." Auctorial meaning "of or relating to the author." I get why the original subtitler thought that was correct (because Tolkien wanted to maintain the idea of most Europeans not having a Judaic style religion before the coming of Christ, with only the Elves and those close to them knowing the full truth of Creation and having their own unique form of religion), but I've listen to that clip many times and don't believe he was referencing the Torah.
@JoaoPedro-pi1ef2 ай бұрын
This man is a legend. Rest in peace MASTER!!!!!
@miless54410 ай бұрын
Thank you for compiling this.
@leespiderpod Жыл бұрын
I think he’d really hate what Amazon have done with his lore
@davidhimmelfahrt3732 Жыл бұрын
No one considers Amazons adaptation to be canon
@samuelleask1132 Жыл бұрын
@@davidhimmelfahrt3732 because they’re not. Same with all the other movies and videogames and stage plays and songs based upon Tolkien’s works
@davidhimmelfahrt3732 Жыл бұрын
@@samuelleask1132 Yes
@lorddarkrai5753 Жыл бұрын
@@samuelleask1132 It's impossible for every film to be 100% loyal to the source material and you know what in the case of The Lord Of The Rings that is highlighted to the highest of extents than any other book work transferred to the big screen.Once somebody watches the films first he or she is amazed at all the detail captured in every frame and how deep the story really is.And then if they decide to give the books a go they find out the books are even deeper than that as Tolkien traverses through all the wars and battles with his experiences and his feelings and his heart beats at the times he had fought in the trenches of World War 1. So Tolkien definitely devotes more pages to explaining the philosophy of the war and why it shouldn't really be happening at all.Some of the sweet moments between the characters in Jackson's films can be illustrated in your mind once you encounter their corresponding parts in Tolkien's books even though they're not too much.Peter Jackson did certainly an amazing job with the Lord of The Rings and definitely the best adaptation this story will ever get.Combining the clues i mentioned earlier one can deduce that should a certain individual read the books at first and watch the movies afterwards , some moments might seem too vanilla amd a bit foreign and that is acceptable and understood.Anyways , since Tolkien had also proposed Christopher Lee to play Gandalf i believe his opinion on film adaptations would be the most general a writer's thought , that is they cannot give you more than the book but if done right you might be in for an entertaining experience.Still though , Lord Of The Rings has one of the highest percentages of precision when it comes to tranferring a book work to the big screen , most films that walk the same path roughly reach 15%.Finally to add a bit about myself , i too lile most people out there watched the films at first and then read the books.Return Of The King is my favourite movie of all time , the book is definitely on my top 5 books of all time in mankind's history and my take on Lord Of The Rings doesn't differ not one bit from everything i've mentioned above.Hope you doing well!!!
@Jordan3DS Жыл бұрын
Is there anybody who doesn't hate it? xD
@captaincrispy218410 ай бұрын
15:05 The questions that were asked during interviews in those times are baffling to me. Incredibly deep and insightful.
@veljoriktsiervada4449 Жыл бұрын
Wow. Thank you for putting this together. What a gem
@joesgotya9930 Жыл бұрын
This is magnificent. I didn’t even know video of Tolkien existed.
@lintulv94864 ай бұрын
adding the subtitles must have taken some time, many thanks for the effort.
@radimh Жыл бұрын
Very nice work, thank you!
@cleverusername9369 Жыл бұрын
Ian McKellen has said he based his voice as Gandalf on Tolkien's voice and it shows
@alex-internetlubber Жыл бұрын
I choose to believe that the fiction we invent, books, video games, are real in some universe. We tap into it when we display the creative impulse. Let me have my dreams.
@pappleseed Жыл бұрын
thanks for this
@JoaquimRabelo-zy9zt7 ай бұрын
Him talking in the dark tongue of Mordor was great, simply great
@codelicious65908 ай бұрын
He appears to be such a kind-hearted and honest man fully without guile.
@Dragon-Dane8 ай бұрын
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❤🔥
@MarkArandjus10 ай бұрын
I did not expect to hear Tolkien quote Simone de Beauvoir, very interesting.
@warot359 Жыл бұрын
Maestro Tolkien, gracias.
@andrewmason669618 күн бұрын
I love how he admires the elves’ language as if he’s NOT the one who created it himself!! It was so real to him and his devotion to his craft made it real for me and millions of others as well. What an honor it is to have his books in my possession.