The Life of J R R Tolkien Part 1 of 12

[vinylrecordcollector]

@dhosey88 Agreed.  Well put.

[gibson2729]

holy crap i have the special editions of LOTR

[hglundahl]

@ Tom Shippey, Ents and Hobbits, do take a look at Vorarlberg and Cologne folklore, will you! If he did not know about Rutschifenken and Heinzelmännchen, his inventions coincide uncannily with such.

[hglundahl]

@ Christopher: The Shire exists only in the mind, but the sea some miles to the west of it is meant to be the Atlantic - some thousand years before known history. Baker Street 221 B also exists only in the mind (unless they added that adress for fandom services). Opar and Ruritania and Syldavia are in between. Prydain is just a bit less anchored than The Little Kingdom in clear history.

[LibertyJusticeTruth]

@hglundahl There is, in fact, a real 221B Baker St. It's the address of the Sherlock Holmes museum.

[hglundahl]

@LibertyJusticeTruth In that case I think it was built after Conan Doyle wrote the Stories.

[daemonboi2]

I need to stop watching this religiously....

[dhosey88]

Outrageous, Tolkien is the greatest story teller of the past 300 years. FACT. His stories will be told for centuries long after we are gone. He wrote an epic tale that attempted to explain the philosophical and mythical origins of the English people. His tales are comparable to the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Anaeid. He will be studied for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.

[TheTototo19]

He was not a racist.

Tolkien expressed disgust at what he acknowledged as racism and once wrote of racial segregation in South Africa, "The treatment of colour nearly always horrifies anyone going out from Britain."

There you have it.

[SURFNEWSTV]

@joshua4469 what makes you think god exists? Not to be disrespectful im just curious.

[JAMamation]

@quaxk

Yes, J.R.R. Tolkien's son was.

[Rastafari123123]

@quaxk How do you know that? Don't you have any shame?

[RipCruncher1]

@quaxk ~ one word. 'TWAT'

[RipCruncher1]

@quaxk ~ fact ~ you're something of a fucking prick.

[patriautism]

@quaxk You're thinking of the wrong Tolkien you idiot..You're thinking of his son John the priest, who was accused of child molestation after his death..

I wonder how such a ignorant statement got so many likes...

[MrMonkey8912]

i hate this what teacher makes u watch this!?!?!?!?!?!?

[DavidDSkater]

his books are the best book i ever read

[Fatal1ty919]

does anyone know who made this, when they made it, and the date of it's original broadcast? i want to use it as a source on a paper and would greatly appreciate the information if some has access to it.

[tarnopol]

@Fatal1ty919 Google: J.R.R.T.: A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien

[Fatal1ty919]

@tarnopol thank you very much

[YuTubeWeTube]

@JayAntiGay loosely? without lotr there would be no wow.

[motjon]

jrr tolkien was born in africa did he have a slave? i hope he wasnt racist and cruel.

[gandalfph]

@motjon He left Africa when he was a child. And no, he wasn't racist. He hated racial segregation in South Africa.

[Jhoxi1972]

@gandalfph How do you know Tolkien wasn't racist....did you ask him? I did. And he said he loved racial segregation in the United States.

[gandalfph]

@Jhoxi1972 You did? Hmmm, were you 1 year old when you met him?

[Olamtir]

@Jhoxi1972 Tolkien loved England and Europe - is that racist? It seems that if you speak up about your culture that isn't Black or Muslim then you're racist.

The Lord of the Rings was written for England, and explains how the 'West' has always had to defend itself from the East - mostly Islam.

[lmos26]

@Olamtir Exactly... I always refer to Pat Condell's take on these matters, which I'll bet Tolkien would have related to quite well.

[lmos26]

@Olamtir Youtube search "pat condell multiculturalism"

[lmos26]

@Jhoxi1972 It's quite clear that Tolkien simply enjoyed his culture, I think he understood the problems that come with multiculturalism, which is even to this day, a chaotic mess. Just look at the current islamification of the UK. Sure it all sounds pretty, but the truth is far from it, and Tolkien knew that.

[hglundahl]

@Jhoxi1972 he did master irony

[lmos26]

@Jhoxi1972 He wasn't a racist, he was far to intelligent for such a simple way of thinking. It's clear that Tolkien used rational thought and determined that different ideological ways of life do not get along when mushed together and pretending that they do is just deluding yourself. People are just to primitive and stupid and we"as a species", simply are not prepared for it yet. ESPECIALLY in his time.

[sonofherne]

@motjon .He came back to England as a very young child...so no!

[motjon]

@sonofherne thanks for the information. i wanted to know cuz im black

[belisariusorb]

I studied under Tom Shippey and I always liked him - an excellent teacher and a good man. He even let me off when I wrote some scurrilous verse about him and nearly got suspended. I was just fooling around really and I think he recognized that.

Before that, as a kid, I loved Tolkein and apart from the fantasy element, which I grew out of, his books encouraged me to study philology and go hiking. Haven't read JRRT for years, though.

[martin2132004]

JRR Tolkien my nigga

[Godtryan]

Who the hell disliked this?

[belisariusorb]

@Godtryan probably an accidental mouseclick

[Slug99]

This documentary is fucking amazing. The parts where his son talks about the themes the Ring's are without a doubt one of the most enlightening pieces of analysis I've ever come across. With only a few sentences he perfectly sums up the battle between the forces of good and evil in the the work to a short and elegant theme, machine and magic is the enemy of natural world as they attempt to impose a will onto that which previously had no will and the ring is the ultimate symbol of will.

[Roshan3L]

@JayAntiGay...we all can apply standard fantasy...and convert it into something...magnificent...like blizzard is doing....inspiration.

[NorthGeorgiaPipe]

this is really good !!!!

[Songsmirth]

It would be interesting to know if any of Tolkien's family was at the premiere of the lastest movies?

Anyone know?

Thanks for posting this. :)

[amaxamon]

Some of the younger generation were, yes. Someone even had a cameo in Minas Tirith. None Jrr's children tho, altho his daughter was at the premiere for the Ralph Bakshi film in 1978.

[mwells219]

@amaxamon it's a shame the tolkien family had to sue new line cinema to get paid.

[JavaCertified]

@mwells219 Although, you know: they do get paid from the sale of the books, which received quite a boost from the films...

[Diffrentjamsith]

@mwells219 New Line Cinema sucks! The cancelled His Dark Materials!!