Tolkien is quite frankly one of England’s finest and one of the greatest men/human beings to ever walk the earth. I sincerely hope and pray he can be made a saint. “The Patron Saint of Storytellers, Writers, and Parents” Anglo-Saxon Axe wielding Tolkien, holy based Batman. Also, Pulling pranks. Yup he’s a Hobbit. 😎👍
Tolkien “hated” Dune, allegory, Disney, King Arthur, Shakespeare, and the supposed list goes on… thank you so much for focusing on what Tolkien Loved, which is much more important than what he hated. Good beer and a pipe, friends, Family, justice, nature, God and most especially Edith! He’s a true inspiration for modern man.
Tolkien certainly did not hate King Arthur. He even composed Arthurian Poetry (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_Arthur). What he disliked was Celtic myth and its impact on Arthurian tales. And yet he liked Welsh - as they say Tolkien was a complex person
@ he didn’t hate allegory or Shakespeare either. The list is a “supposed” hate list. He only disliked that Arthur was so overtly Christian when it originally was a pagan story. Letter to Milton Walden: “Arthurian world, but powerful as it is, it is imperfectly naturalized, associated with the soil of Britain but not with English; and does not replace what I felt to be missing. For one thing its 'faerie' is too lavish, and fantastical, incoherent and repetitive. For another and more important thing: it is involved in, and explicitly contains the Christian religion. For reasons which I will not elaborate, that seems to me fatal. Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world. (I am speaking, of course, of our present situation, not of ancient pagan, pre-Christian days. And I will not repeat what I tried to say in my essay, which you read”
Brilliant writer and storyteller. One thing about his approach to writing is that he stated in an interview once that he didn't like the method of drawing from real present events like the looming war when he was writing The Hobbit during the 30s for example He said that he views the imaginary world of Middle Earth as being completely independent of events in our world like the battle between good and evil i.e. the rise of Hitler etc.
Tolkien got into Finnish while he was studying European folklore, and literally going "what the fuck?" when discovering Finnish. It is not an Indo-European language so it was WEIRD for language scholar like Tolkien, and he loved it. He himself described learning Finnish as tasting "bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before". The story of Turin Turambar is inspired by a Fenno-Karelian myth of Kullervo, who - like Turin - marries his sister without knowing it, causes and experiences great tragedies due to his nature and temperament, and in the end commits suicide after talking to his sword.
13:12 this was a particularly nice touch, i feel like a lot of people get the impression of tolkien being against the lgbt community just because he was mostly a traditionalist, but from what i know that couldn't be more wrong. i don't think he explicitly said anything on the topic publicly, but he was known to be friends with openly gay people and respected the work of many gay authors, and even if he had reservations it would be highly unlike him to dislike anyone for it. this was a lovely video in general by the way
I find it interesting that Tolkien considered Gaelic to be unattractive. I always found Welsh and Gaelic to be quite similar, and equally pleasing to the ear.
I'm less than half way through the video and can't take it anymore!! 😭😭😭 We need more people like him everywhere!
I don’t know if it was coincidence or planned, but Ian McKlellen sure seemed to channel a lot of Tolkien mannerisms in his performance.
I'm sure I've seen interviews with Ian saying that it was intentional
Tolkien is quite frankly one of England’s finest and one of the greatest men/human beings to ever walk the earth. I sincerely hope and pray he can be made a saint.
“The Patron Saint of Storytellers, Writers, and Parents”
Anglo-Saxon Axe wielding Tolkien, holy based Batman. Also, Pulling pranks. Yup he’s a Hobbit. 😎👍
He will always be my Patron Saint of storytelling💖 he is also my personal saint of therapy and my moral compass.
@ZephyrOptional 👍
Tolkien “hated” Dune, allegory, Disney, King Arthur, Shakespeare, and the supposed list goes on… thank you so much for focusing on what Tolkien Loved, which is much more important than what he hated. Good beer and a pipe, friends, Family, justice, nature, God and most especially Edith! He’s a true inspiration for modern man.
Tolkien certainly did not hate King Arthur. He even composed Arthurian Poetry (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_Arthur). What he disliked was Celtic myth and its impact on Arthurian tales. And yet he liked Welsh - as they say Tolkien was a complex person
@ he didn’t hate allegory or Shakespeare either. The list is a “supposed” hate list. He only disliked that Arthur was so overtly Christian when it originally was a pagan story. Letter to Milton Walden: “Arthurian world, but powerful as it is, it is imperfectly naturalized, associated with the soil of Britain but not with English; and does not replace what I felt to be missing. For one thing its 'faerie' is too lavish, and fantastical, incoherent and repetitive. For another and more important thing: it is involved in, and explicitly contains the Christian religion. For reasons which I will not elaborate, that seems to me fatal. Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world. (I am speaking, of course, of our present situation, not of ancient pagan, pre-Christian days. And I will not repeat what I tried to say in my essay, which you read”
Brilliant writer and storyteller. One thing about his approach to writing is that he stated in an interview once that he didn't like the method of drawing from real present events like the looming war when he was writing The Hobbit during the 30s for example He said that he views the imaginary world of Middle Earth as being completely independent of events in our world like the battle between good and evil i.e. the rise of Hitler etc.
Tolkien got into Finnish while he was studying European folklore, and literally going "what the fuck?" when discovering Finnish. It is not an Indo-European language so it was WEIRD for language scholar like Tolkien, and he loved it. He himself described learning Finnish as tasting "bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before".
The story of Turin Turambar is inspired by a Fenno-Karelian myth of Kullervo, who - like Turin - marries his sister without knowing it, causes and experiences great tragedies due to his nature and temperament, and in the end commits suicide after talking to his sword.
Man oh man, I would've loved to learn from this man!
Cant wait for more as a fellow Tolkien enthusiast!
13:12 this was a particularly nice touch, i feel like a lot of people get the impression of tolkien being against the lgbt community just because he was mostly a traditionalist, but from what i know that couldn't be more wrong. i don't think he explicitly said anything on the topic publicly, but he was known to be friends with openly gay people and respected the work of many gay authors, and even if he had reservations it would be highly unlike him to dislike anyone for it. this was a lovely video in general by the way
What a legend
Thanks for these AMAZING videos!!!!
Thank you so much for watching!!!!!
Excellent video! Very well done again. I hope you keep this channel going. I just hope it has enough nuance for some critics out there.
I find it interesting that Tolkien considered Gaelic to be unattractive. I always found Welsh and Gaelic to be quite similar, and equally pleasing to the ear.
I have heard he was a pretty big Lord of the Rings fan
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