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Really wanted to write a long narrative that held the reader all the way through = Spends a quarter of a chapter describing landscapes. Love the Professor but that is such an ironic sentiment for him :b

It's wonderful to hear his words on things about his stories. From a construction of the narrative and world setting point of view

Watching this I can't hep but notice how similar his many mannerisms are to Bilbo's. In fact, one could say Bilbo almost seems to be a reflection of Tolkien in many ways. They were both authors who dream of grand tales and far away places but also enjoy their comforts and life at home. They had both been through war (and were victorious) and found it terrible and different from how they expected. They both had a thing for poetry and languages and both had peculiar mannerisms and speech patterns. There's also some of Tolkien in Gandalf (those bushy eyebrows look like they just might stick out from under a hat). No doubt that's why Ian McKellen emulated him so much. I'm super grateful that this video was uploaded! Thanks for all the hard work put in to make Tolkien's words come to life. As an aspiring writer it's fascinating how much one can learn about Tolkien's writing process and mindset just from these interviews. The way he constantly refers to the elves and dwarves as being real and present, and how he constantly mentions having to discover the answers to his questions or dig up his story as if it were a real history.

It's amazing to me, how a person who has had such an impact on so many people, arguably Western culture, could be so self-effacing.

You know, in the movies which have now high jacked the magic of Tolkien's prose, sadly, we see Gandalf as being this tall, presence, tall and imposing. But in the appendices and watnot, in the flotsom and jetsom of notes, he was described as being of just near average height, about 5'6 or 5'8. Compared to Elrond and Aragorn, he was " less tall in stature, broad shouldered".I think is the quote. Gandalf was actually rather short.

I remember my dad giving me his books of the trilogy that my grandfather had. I havebloved those books with every fiber of my being.

I always thought it should be “chieves”…. Fuck it.. Tolkien and I say it’s chieves! I love what he says about religion, about native vs learned languages. Secret language vs outward language. There is so much more to his writing than he is letting on. I can tell. Absolutely fascinating

Okay, this has just made my day.

Tolkien's black-and-white artwork for "The Hobbit" brings to mind the illustrations in E. V. Gordon's "An Introduction to Old Norse".

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It's amazing how talented Tolkien was, really.

His way of answering is so purposefully vague and mischievous. And then his smile! I especially loved the way he addressed the escapism bit. His work is so much more than an escape from the mundanity of life, he actually succeeded in creating myth, IMHO. He was “touched by the magic wand” as we say in my country, trully a blessing to have his works (a huge part of that is thanks to Christopher, who compiled his Magnum Opus posthumously: The Silmarillion!)

Hey- even if people are hating on the interviewer for good reason, props to him for actually educating himself. He knows his stuff!

When people don't include him among the greatest authors of all time , i get seriously infuriated. So what if he didn't write about a love story or a dystopian future?Not only did he create a full universe which by the way unfortunately has a tiny unfinished unwritten part of it , he crafted 5 languages with their alphabet , vocabulary , grammar and syntax that is Quenya , Sindarin , Kuzdul , Entish and the Language Of Mordor.That is first and foremost because he was passionate about his profession as a linguist and secondly to create something original so that the entirety of the Arda saga can be interpreted and approached as something definitely original and neither allegorical nor parallel to different sorts of realities. No disrespect to professionals like mr.Twain or mr.Hemingway or mr.Orwell or mr.Dostoyefski i just cannot fathom why some writers like Tolkien are always left out from the greatest author discussion.

when he spoke to the younger man, I love the cleverness and wittiness in both of them. It’s like they’re prepared to say what they want to say with intelligence

Oh, thanks! Are you going to do the two poems as well?

Thank You so much for sharing this gem! Happy New Year!

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What I wouldn’t give for an entire audio version of LOTR and the hobbit

This is great. I would love a Hobbit audiobook read by Tolkien himself

This appears to be the audio from the CD included with the facsimile Hobbit gift box, on which only a very small clip of Roast Mutton was included. The recording on the Enhanced eBook edition is 16 minutes and 28 seconds long.

They say don't meet your heroes, but 'meeting' Tolkien here, he exceeds my expectations, lovely man

His Holiness, I revere Tolkien not as a Saint nor supernatural Something, only as a real flawed, but inventive human and a fellow of the arts of writing and storytelling. What a brave knightly lad!

On tolkien not remembering writing about the ents, and his novel body-mind recall and unconscious... I find it interesting that he is unsure entirely about the creation and writing of the ents and ent chapter. It says that they were an impulsive/unconscious creation alongside the active lore, (which is corroborated in letters). It also says to me he was deeply communing with his muse, on a real etheric bender, lol. He also mentions in old letters of daydreaming as a child about an army of trees fighting a war. Strange he has no memory of writimg the ents in particular. He mentions multiple times he is acutely photographic about the moment to monent novelty of active compositioning when in the act of writing/creating: his body, his limbs, his positioning, his relation to the window and the light from it, very insightful bodymind entrainment that says so much about his rituals and the magic it sublimated. He sounds like he channeled tbh, and/or ruminated deeply until triggering automatic writing spells Ents are a primordial species, so I can somehow see their creation being foggy for him as he reached into that elemental headspace to somehow embody them, and I'm reminded of a simple but profound and perfectly in-character insight treebeard has about saruman: “I think that I now understand what he is up to. He is plotting to become a Power. He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for living things, except as far as they serve him for the moment.” specifically: "and he does not care for living things" this is so simple but so profound that it's almost redundant, but bc it comes from this primordial being, it really says all one needs to know about another, and their ultimate trajectory hearing a sentient (that word has double the ent!) tree divine the slow fall of another angel into yet another meteor upon their paradise based on that singled out behavior alone, is very much tolkien's achingly nostalgic and disaffected psyche, but also so perfectly characterizes the mind/pov of an ent that I think tolkien temporarily remote viewed as one while writing that chapter, hence his unusual case of missing time

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.

I see in him a lot of Bilbo, and some Frodo. He also went through some hellish experiences in the war, where all his friends died and where he also got a lifelong illness. He came back but he always bore the wound.

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.

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So Ian Mckellen was basically just doing a JRR Tolkien impression

"Oh, Dear, I've made a mistake haven't I?" as if any one of us has the capacity to know that he made a mistake writing in a language that he invented. That is one of my favorite things about watching these interviews. He could have just kept writing and no one would know any difference.

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This man is a legend. Rest in peace MASTER!!!!!

Incredible human being

This man, is without doubt one of the greatest to ever live. Thousands of years from now (as long as the socialists and communists who are the living embodiment of evil, don't get their way and become rulers) we will still be talking about his works and him, like we are talking about Plato, Homer, and Shakespeare (for some reason) today.

If the student who got his examination book back with "In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit" scribled on it by his professor had somehow miraculously saved it and handed it down as a family heirloom, I wonder how much it would be worth today? 🤣 They would kind of have to have that page in a big glass box in the middle of the entrance room of any hypothetical Tolkien museum.

Tolkien reminds me s much of John Lennon. Both were free thinkers and created their own worlds. Nothing was right or wrong, everything was open to discussion.

What I'd give to own that page he wrote his elvish language on. The man was a genius.

Flanders and Swan were very funny - especially the time they added the words to the tune of the Mozart horn concerto and made it into "I have lost my horn" One of the cleverest musical parodies ever!

This looks like a totally different age. I was a toddler at the time. But then i remember that just 13 year later, my high school teacher recommended the book and I read it, which feels like yesterday.

Thanks for sharing this rarity! 😊

It would be great to have this remastered to fix up the changes in the recording's speed. Sounds like someone is twisting the tuning pegs back and forth on that piano... 😅

The joy I felt when I saw the notification was unmeasurable!

Bonus music -- another version of "Bilbo's Last Song" -- sang by Donald Swann & John Amis (1992) ruclips.net/video/l-uh7GM9GFo/видео.html&ab_channel=JohnAmis-Topic Swann and Amis were lifelong friends. Swann passed in 1994; Amis 2013.

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This was a mountain of a man A pure figure of legend