Peter Kreeft on Philosophy of Tolkien with John Haas

Fireside Chat with Peter Kreeft.
Dr. John Haas sits down with Author Peter Kreeft to talk about his book, Philosophy of Tolkien
Lecture Date: January 9th, 2004
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[@billhannis6095]

4:03 "Everyone in the world, except the critics, thinks this is the greatest book of the twentieth century."

[@onlyconnect88]

Critics tend to make sense of serious books by comparison to the efforts of near contemporaries -Nabokov & James Joyce ect in the case of Tolkien. When they should have been thinking of that of Edmond Spencer in the 1500s and the ancient biblical & Scandinavian mythologies to gat at what Tolkien was creating.

[@evermoremystic17]

I’ve listened to two of Peter Kreeft’s interviews and it’s just wonderful listening to him. He seems like such a pleasant person.

[@tomscullin]

Peter Kreeft is an absolute treasure!

[@NaturalNeuron]

In regard to Hope, Estel, Aragorn’s name as a child, literally means “Hope “. As Aragorn’s mother Gilraen said when she died after giving birth to him, “I have given Hope to mankind but saved none for myself “. This was quoted by Aragorn’s in the movie when he receives the sword from Elrond.

[@Makkaru112]

Exactly and there are two kinds of hope. Amdir and Estel. Tolkien Lore channel goes into this deeply

[@sbjrcourses7961]

Love this interview, but Prof. Kreet at 23:22 got it wrong. Frodo did NOT push Gollum. They were both fighting over it as they both fell over the edge. So Jackson got that right and Prof. Kreet... with respect... is incorrect.

[@007EnglishAcademy]

Christopher Tolkien said Jackson had ''eviscerated'' his father's work. I agree.

[@nolanknows1401]

Thanks for uploading

[@Makkaru112]

More about the hobbit with Alan Lee’s travels to find the history of them which is quite amazing. The episodes are hard to find.

[@beautifullycreatable]

Thank u for this interview 😍

[@RikiTikiTaviXVX]

LOTR is indeed like a cathedral, a superb analogy. However I disagree with Peter K about the brothers Karamazov, it’s starets Zosima who is like Gandalf, someone who personifies wisdom.

[@insight856]

Thanks for this so much!!

[@corycooper7179]

Thank you..thank you...Thank you 🙏!!!

[@johnphelan8300]

How about constructing a sentence and expressing a view?😢

[@Liopot68]

Interesting to compare Peter Kreeft´s opinion on the movies to that of Harold Bloom.

[@marybethmiranda3037]

Excellent

[@oobrocks]

The headline needed to tell us "CS Lewis," too

[@KipIngram]

So, what explains the comment at 4:40 or so that "ordinary people are , and the critics are not"? You'd THINK that a goal of the publications putting out the critics' material would want to have critics that "resonated" with their readership. What has caused normal market forces to fail to produce such a well-tuned situation?

[@mcshair21]

I would say there is not mere market forces at play, shaping the “criticsphere”; but, like so many other arenas of society, a sort of astroturfing going on, always trying to shape and steer society: a grand vision, but not our vision.

[@chrisdreiser4722]

The Hare and the Lobster: could be something from Alice in Wonderland

[@dariusmutabdzija]

Tokien did not "invent" anything he said himself that he just recorded what he saw in the "secondary world" which was neither real nor his imagination.

[@dariusmutabdzija]

Tolkien*

[@Makkaru112]

Exactly. This is why I love Tië Eldaliéva’s based and balanced video’s especially with that scientific certified shaman guy who’s with her often in her videos. Especially true it part two partly about of Rings Of Power but went deep into awesome stuff and even shared this scholarly bishop who was speaking about Tolkiens works about the imaginary try world doesn’t mean fake or unreal and also how it’s a space between god and the rest of the teams inside and outside of this earth and how we communicate with the great mother and great father that’s both inside of us and outside of us all at the same time via this fluid space

[@vjensen56]

Peter Kraft must not have played Skyrim!

[@kazikmajster5650]

In geneal, a good talk, but gere are the things gotten wrong: 9:54 LotR wasn't an allegory. None of the characters represented Jesus. 18:30 Tolkien didn't create Quenya as a result of war, he himself found it hard to answer why, but finally told that it was because he found it aesthetically pleasing. 20:00 He did not write 'The Silmarillion' but I guess that abhorrent generalization can be overlooked. Aaand lots of stuff later, I'm not gonna watch it all.

[@emiliodijan2194]

How do you mean, he didn't write Silmarillon? His son edited it and published it but Tolkien did all the writing

[@Makkaru112]

@@emiliodijan2194that and It’s important to pair the Sil with Morgoth’s Ring, Children Of Hùrin, Unfinished Tales, Book Of Lost Tales, 12 volumes of history of middle earth. Laws And Customs Of The Eldar, Lays of Beleriand, Of Beren and Lúthien including Christophers awesome writings before they got into the story really adds more depth and understanding to it all! Especially Lay Of Leithien as well. ❤

[@KipIngram]

Gandalf was more a plain angel than an archangel. The Valar were akin to the archangels. Otherwise you have nothing left to call them - Eru was God, Gandalf an angel, and the Valar in between - archangels.

[@Makkaru112]

They never pulled rank on eachother often. A maia of battle orientation easily handles Morgoth. Even Eonwë of the Eldar would trounce Morgoth in any of his stages. Same with the maia Tulkas. All are Ainur. It all depends on their dispositions and orientations

[@KipIngram]

@@Makkaru112 Granted; aside from the overtly corrupt ones they were always presented as very "pure of heart." Almost naively so in some cases. It is noted on several occasions, though, that the Maiar were the "helpers" / "assistants" of the Valar. There was a clear distinction.

[@oobrocks]

I'm no. 100 :) (my first 100, ever 😆)

[@oobrocks]

I can argue luck defeats the ring!

[@Jeremy-ge6zv]

and you would have a trash argument

[@oobrocks]

Perhaps our nuclear bombs is Sauron: we can destroy all civilization now