Tolkien interview

[DareYouNotToClick1]

The bastard ripped of Jacksons film series with his crappy novels

[stijnspoiler]

he cinda sounds like bilbo

[Paull5823]

Personally I liked the book better than the movies but don't get me wrong. Peter Jackson did an awesome job bringing Tolkien's legend to life.

[SovereignStatesman]

@Paull5823

If you like dwarf-tossing.

[Catalinul]

Repressed facepalm at 0:15.

[SovereignStatesman]

@Catalinul

When people believe in in benevolent dictatorship, like they do today, they naturally think that danger can only come from in a WMD.

[MrWSherwood]

Yeah, stick that up your interpretive asses!

[MrWSherwood]

I wish someone would upload a whole interview . . .

[MyFaceHole]

HIII EVERYBODY! PENIS!

[BiffaTW]

haha i love tolkien's face at 14 to 20 seconds hes just thinking 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! its not...' lol.

[0HailEris0]

For one split geeky second, I actually thought the subtitles were in Elvish.

[esgietheqroue]

@0HailEris0

You're actually not that far off. The subs are in Estonian, a Finno-Ugric language closely related to Finnish. And Finnish happens to be the language that, according to legend, inspired Tolkien the most when he created the high elvish tongue, Quenya.

[chromatic2006]

The whole thing with tying it to the H bomb is just people at the time trying to connect it to what was happening in the news.

The H bomb and nuclear threat was on everyones mind then. It was the cold war,and all that crap.

However the connect was to power itself, which could take many forms even in the future.

[Dirtfire]

@chromatic2006 that's right. In case some have trouble hearing him (like me but I at least made this out), he said that even though that is the allegory that others have arrived at, he began the LotR long before the H-bomb was even invented.

[TheDeviousDeception]

Thank you very much! Everything Tolkien is of interest to me.

[Khultan]

Thank you so much for sharing!

[BilboBaggins555]

these interviews are very interesting, and of course it is absurd to think that the ring represents the H-Bomb, as Tolkien said in the interview, he began writing the stories through graduate school and the start of the first world war. It is also important to note, aside from the fact that the stories covered the issue of mortality, that the Lord of the Rings, or any of Tolkien's major works were written to house the language of the Elves. Not just for the stories.

[Hyardacil]

This, my friend is whats so great about art though. Even if the grandmaster didn't intend it, or even DISLIKES it, he STILL wrote a brilliant allegory, that can and IS read as such. It - in my humble opinion - only makes the piece's brilliance shine through even more strongly. It's "Art" with a capital A, it can be read in any context one wants. All great art is up to interpretation.

And - all artists have to agree - a work of art always becomes a separate entity from the author. Uncontrollable

[Gernam12]

@Hyardacil He wrote open ended allegory, you can take it as you will. Everything can be interpreted in one way or another but there is no true allegory. That's how the grandmaster described his version of allegory.

[GreeenBaron]

@Gernam12 Not exactly. From the introduction in Fellowship: "I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse 'applicability' with 'allegory'; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author."

[Gernam12]

@GreeenBaron Yes, that's where I was trying to get at, thank you for correcting me.

[GreeenBaron]

@Gernam12 I thought it was pretty interesting how Tolkien drew a firm line between allegory and applicability. It was also pretty interesting that In the same FOTR introduction, he goes on to give a surprisingly VERY sardonic synopsis of the story if he had actually written it as allegory for WW2; quite reflective of his themes concerning mankind's lust for power.

[GreeenBaron]

@Gernam12 I thought it was pretty interesting how Tolkien drew a firm line between allegory and applicability. It was also pretty interesting that In the same FOTR introduction, he goes on to give a surprisingly VERY sardonic synopsis of the story if he had actually written it as allegory for WW2; quite reflective of his themes concerning mankind's lust for power.

[ithilianoctis]

thank you very much!!

[Iglioni]

I can't thank you enough!!!! even if i'd have a elvish life

[MisterButterbur]

I very much Like these interviews! very interesting!

[Higgins380]

I found quite selfish to keep such interviews for myslef, knowing how large is the Tolkien fan community.

[VicTolkien]

Thank you very much in deed for posting it!