This is the song that Sam sings in Fotr book at Bilbo's stone trolls. He did that to bring up Frodo's mood after being stabbed by a ringwraith, and it entertained pretty much all hobbits plus Aragorn. :)
@DrWatsonPostmortem Yes, "boner" reads in the lyrics. But I don't think "boner" meant much more back then when he wrote that.
The book also has a lot of words such as "gay" and "queer" as well, but they're meant to be old english, so their meaning is pretty much "happy" and "strange", in an innocent way.
@DrWatsonPostmortem Yes, a few of the words in LOTR definitely reflect the fact it was written 70 years ago. Or maybe the troll got a little too excited by his song, who knows ;)
I gues he was such an incredible person and i sorry i wasn't born earlier to meet him. It is even wrote Beren beneeth his name written on his gravestone and under his wives name is written Luthien.
Those people who obsess over "gay", "queer" and "boner" in Tolkien's books should ask themselves this - do their sexual meanings make sense in an archaic novel like Lord of the Rings?
That would be like writing "yo let's go" or "epic fail!" in one or two places in the Winnie the Pooh books.
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Good point below about the words "gay" and "queer" used extensively in Tolkien's work.
"Gay" is simply happy or jovial. "Queer" is anything out of place or out of the ordinary, like in the phrase "something queer scratching up me back".....
That is one of the most important lasting legacies of Tolkien. He continuously teaches us the origins of words and of the very language that we use every day.
To all the debate going on about his use of the word "boner". I have been a Tolkien scholar for 25 years. YES, he is saying "boner". It's an English expression that goes quite a ways back, it's the equivalent of us saying "blunder" or simply "mistake".
In fact, if you do a quick search online, or look in the book directly, you will see that in Sam's verses, the word is indeed boner, NOT bone-o'er or bone over.
A "boner" in England is a blunder, like "oh bother" used as "damn".
Nevermind. Listened to it to the end (you should always do these things *before* you post) and he does say "boner" at the very end, second to last verse. It wouldn't mean anything sexual, though, not in the context that we 21st century people think at least.
I mean, the words 'queer' and 'gay' occur frequently in LotR and if you think that means what you *think* it means, then you really don't know.
Okay, listen up people. Yes, he said "boner", but it's not what you think. It didn't mean anything sexual when he wrote the poem. It simply meant a mistake or stupid blunder, and if you actually listen to what he's talking about, that makes more sense, since the troll made a big mistake in taking the bone. He made a boner, or blunder, by taking the bone.
I heard that Tolkien after getting his recording device actually recorded the Lords Prayer in Gothic for the first thing he ever recorded in case it was possessed.
You know, I really wonder if, in his mind, there was actually a tune to every song of which the lyrics are mentioned in his books. I would love to hear them. If there were, he should really have put in the notations. I really enjoyed the sountrack of that hobbit cartoon but I dont suppose Tolkien had intended it to sound just like that...
@Neurotrash1982 He also wrote that the wood elves put Thorin Oakenshield in thongs...it's in the Hobbit. Of course within the context of the story they bind Thorin, but in our context...the mental image of a dwarf in a thong is not a happy one.
@wannabedesi yeah i just finished reading the book for the first time this last week and i saw that, i thought that was pretty funny. at least it was an elf's thong though lol
This is just one of the many wonderful recordings Tolkien made of himself reading from his works. I think he managed to record all the verse from The Lord of the Rings, along with passages dealing with Frodo and Sam in Ithilien, climbing Mount Doom, and the Ride of the Rohirrim. My favorite is his recording of a sizeable piece of "Riddles in the Dark". It always gives me shivers listening to it.
Tolkien is truly legendary. We shall never forget his works while he is the best storyteller in the world and he created whole world of different races with their own culture and language.
I will read Tolkiens books for my children in future =)
Tolkien created something that will NEVER be surpassed by any work that will ever be born. With the Lord of the Rings and Middle-Earth, Tolkien has transcended death and become Immortal.
About once a year I must lose myself in his middle earth again. That's been going on since introduced to the trilogy by an English teacher reading to us from "The Two Towers" in 1971.
It's not a trilogy at all. It was written as a single book in three volumes; the publishers split them into three "books" to maximize profits. J.R.R Tolkien never regarded his book as a "trilogy."
For someone with such out-due respect for the work, I'm surprised you were mistaken on this fact.
Its incredible how many different stories he greated, how many songs, poems, letterings, runes and even lenguages. Nobody has ever created a so wonderfull und rich world like him and nobody ever will! He is a god!
Quite awhile since I had occasion to light my pipe and sing by the fire...perhaps I shall have company over for it...too many old customs and pastimes are lost now
In my opinion, Romeo and Juliet was more of a story of a tragic obsession, than real love. And I remember that Tolkien didn't like Shakespeare that much either.
Actually, if you need romance for that matter, Tolkien has plenty of stories of immortals decide to let go of immortality to love a mortal being, sacrifices with somewhat bittersweet endings.
Only three stories of immortals giving up immortality for the love of a mortal: Idril Celebrindal for Tuor, Luthien Tinuviel for Beren and Arwen Undomiel for Aragorn
@hijtohema I know. :) I have read about them all. And of course the rest are fanfics or such, but I doubt if they would be any better than the three originals.
@hijtohema Tolkien himself told once of his idea of creating a large base for stories and music, where others would have room to continue the work he begun. But them he laughed to his own idea.
But that's exactly what happened. Which is also funny but wonderful. And we're not lacking any items in Eä to make the art about. It's simply written so rich in detail.
Surprisingly, it is quite easy to find such files since Professor Tolkien recorded quite a lot of things. Besides, you may find other interesting recordings and video clips on youtube (I uploaded quite a few of them myself).
I am pleased that some recordings still exist of his own voice. His pen crafted the better part of my soul and heart. If there is any justice in this universe then the world of the silmarillion is where I will go when I die.
I'll copy that. If I die and not wake up in valinor I'm gonna give the poor other dead souls around me quite a hard time. Just like now basically... -.-
ahoy there ..outstanding upload many thanks dear boy...tally ho !!
oldenglishpipesmoker 2 weeks ago
@oldenglishpipesmoker You're very welcome!
Higgins380 2 weeks ago
If you think some wordings of old english in the book are strange, rather blame the dirty human mind that's twisting words into double meanings. :)
Elainiwen 2 months ago
This is the song that Sam sings in Fotr book at Bilbo's stone trolls. He did that to bring up Frodo's mood after being stabbed by a ringwraith, and it entertained pretty much all hobbits plus Aragorn. :)
Elainiwen 2 months ago
Excellent :) Haha, Tolkien was a true Hobbit, only a bit too tall :) He has told of himself "I am Hobbit in all but size" :) To His eternal memory!
OldWaysFollower 2 months ago
The man is genius!
TheLaElc 2 months ago
Did he just say boner? Welp, there goes my childhood.
DrWatsonPostmortem 3 months ago
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@DrWatsonPostmortem Yes, "boner" reads in the lyrics. But I don't think "boner" meant much more back then when he wrote that.
The book also has a lot of words such as "gay" and "queer" as well, but they're meant to be old english, so their meaning is pretty much "happy" and "strange", in an innocent way.
Elainiwen 2 months ago
@DrWatsonPostmortem Yes, a few of the words in LOTR definitely reflect the fact it was written 70 years ago. Or maybe the troll got a little too excited by his song, who knows ;)
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I gues he was such an incredible person and i sorry i wasn't born earlier to meet him. It is even wrote Beren beneeth his name written on his gravestone and under his wives name is written Luthien.
shadowsabere 4 months ago
Wow, this is amazing! Thanks so much for the upload!
stoffis772 5 months ago
Those people who obsess over "gay", "queer" and "boner" in Tolkien's books should ask themselves this - do their sexual meanings make sense in an archaic novel like Lord of the Rings?
That would be like writing "yo let's go" or "epic fail!" in one or two places in the Winnie the Pooh books.
Laurelindo 5 months ago
This man continues to amaze me.
VlogDot 5 months ago
does anyone know where i can find a video or audio of J.R.R. Tolkien speaking the language of Mordor?
urukihai4523 6 months ago
Thank you for posting this!
Fungledorf 6 months ago
"For John's toes did feel it..." Ha ha ha!
3impersonators 6 months ago
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joshua4469 7 months ago
This gets my vote for the most epic video on YouTube. Thanks for posting!
FlamingSpidermonkeys 10 months ago 4
damn straight no dislikes!! this is awesome :D his voice is so funny/good at the same time.
RAacousticfreak 10 months ago
Good point below about the words "gay" and "queer" used extensively in Tolkien's work.
"Gay" is simply happy or jovial. "Queer" is anything out of place or out of the ordinary, like in the phrase "something queer scratching up me back".....
That is one of the most important lasting legacies of Tolkien. He continuously teaches us the origins of words and of the very language that we use every day.
campaigner111 11 months ago 5
Folks,
To all the debate going on about his use of the word "boner". I have been a Tolkien scholar for 25 years. YES, he is saying "boner". It's an English expression that goes quite a ways back, it's the equivalent of us saying "blunder" or simply "mistake".
In fact, if you do a quick search online, or look in the book directly, you will see that in Sam's verses, the word is indeed boner, NOT bone-o'er or bone over.
A "boner" in England is a blunder, like "oh bother" used as "damn".
campaigner111 11 months ago 3
Nevermind. Listened to it to the end (you should always do these things *before* you post) and he does say "boner" at the very end, second to last verse. It wouldn't mean anything sexual, though, not in the context that we 21st century people think at least.
I mean, the words 'queer' and 'gay' occur frequently in LotR and if you think that means what you *think* it means, then you really don't know.
Pitchguest 1 year ago
He doesn't say "boner." Listen very carefully. It's "bone over, rover, trover." Unless his way of saying "boner" is "bone-o'er".
Pitchguest 1 year ago
Okay, listen up people. Yes, he said "boner", but it's not what you think. It didn't mean anything sexual when he wrote the poem. It simply meant a mistake or stupid blunder, and if you actually listen to what he's talking about, that makes more sense, since the troll made a big mistake in taking the bone. He made a boner, or blunder, by taking the bone.
TBAWriter 1 year ago
he says boner at the end
Prancer1231 1 year ago
no I think he says boner
Prancer1231 1 year ago
He did NOT say boner. He said, "Hand the old bone over, rover, trover!"
Serena2009ification 1 year ago
@Serena2009ification
Oh, no......look right in the passage from the book! The poem does indeed have the word "boner". It means a blunder or mistake.
campaigner111 11 months ago
Yeah, he def said boner.
slipknotrox013 1 year ago
this is so amazing but still he said boner lol
bbyalex1 1 year ago
I heard that Tolkien after getting his recording device actually recorded the Lords Prayer in Gothic for the first thing he ever recorded in case it was possessed.
wannabedesi 1 year ago
You know, I really wonder if, in his mind, there was actually a tune to every song of which the lyrics are mentioned in his books. I would love to hear them. If there were, he should really have put in the notations. I really enjoyed the sountrack of that hobbit cartoon but I dont suppose Tolkien had intended it to sound just like that...
Also, did he say "boner"?
Neurotrash1982 1 year ago
@Neurotrash1982 He also wrote that the wood elves put Thorin Oakenshield in thongs...it's in the Hobbit. Of course within the context of the story they bind Thorin, but in our context...the mental image of a dwarf in a thong is not a happy one.
wannabedesi 1 year ago
@wannabedesi yeah i just finished reading the book for the first time this last week and i saw that, i thought that was pretty funny. at least it was an elf's thong though lol
TylerThrashPeace 1 year ago
Genious :)
Ruca77 1 year ago
it is just magical
alkleot 1 year ago
Have you heard? Have you heard it? It was God.
juresaiyan 1 year ago
The Silmarillion inspired the story that inspired me to start writing a story called The Êadál.
mij194 1 year ago 2
I inspired myself to read
Tolkien inspired me to write.
I love you, Sir!
ambereyes93 1 year ago 3
Imagine Tolkien under LSD? How Awesome Will It Be?!! ;-))
imtv 1 year ago
This is just one of the many wonderful recordings Tolkien made of himself reading from his works. I think he managed to record all the verse from The Lord of the Rings, along with passages dealing with Frodo and Sam in Ithilien, climbing Mount Doom, and the Ride of the Rohirrim. My favorite is his recording of a sizeable piece of "Riddles in the Dark". It always gives me shivers listening to it.
kngfsh256 1 year ago
A god? well maybe, but a very human god.
peacecanhappen27 2 years ago
Tolkien is truly legendary. We shall never forget his works while he is the best storyteller in the world and he created whole world of different races with their own culture and language.
I will read Tolkiens books for my children in future =)
Sareth987 2 years ago
Tolkien created something that will NEVER be surpassed by any work that will ever be born. With the Lord of the Rings and Middle-Earth, Tolkien has transcended death and become Immortal.
TenthLegionX 2 years ago 2
This is hilariously funny, as Tolkien also could be
tjoris51 2 years ago
About once a year I must lose myself in his middle earth again. That's been going on since introduced to the trilogy by an English teacher reading to us from "The Two Towers" in 1971.
ASeasonedWitch 2 years ago
@ASeasonedWitch
It's not a trilogy at all. It was written as a single book in three volumes; the publishers split them into three "books" to maximize profits. J.R.R Tolkien never regarded his book as a "trilogy."
For someone with such out-due respect for the work, I'm surprised you were mistaken on this fact.
loftymuses 1 year ago
He's God of Fantasy ...
Svargedorath 2 years ago 2
tolkien created a world and many peoples, no author will ever amount to his prowess and literary majesty, r.i.p. a god
smasho82 2 years ago
Its incredible how many different stories he greated, how many songs, poems, letterings, runes and even lenguages. Nobody has ever created a so wonderfull und rich world like him and nobody ever will! He is a god!
ApollonAcheus 2 years ago 3
He is a legend...Greatest writer that ever lived.
Galathilien 2 years ago 6
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he sed "boner" xD
floppyorange 2 years ago
I shall fill my pipe and sit back and sing along to this....i salute you Sir!
blacbear 2 years ago 61
Quite awhile since I had occasion to light my pipe and sing by the fire...perhaps I shall have company over for it...too many old customs and pastimes are lost now
Quickleaf 4 months ago
tolkien is undiscusibly the best, as much as i like will, shakespear pales in tolkiens light
namekman01 2 years ago 11
In my opinion, Romeo and Juliet was more of a story of a tragic obsession, than real love. And I remember that Tolkien didn't like Shakespeare that much either.
Actually, if you need romance for that matter, Tolkien has plenty of stories of immortals decide to let go of immortality to love a mortal being, sacrifices with somewhat bittersweet endings.
Elainiwen 2 years ago 8
Only three stories of immortals giving up immortality for the love of a mortal: Idril Celebrindal for Tuor, Luthien Tinuviel for Beren and Arwen Undomiel for Aragorn
hijtohema 2 years ago
@hijtohema I know. :) I have read about them all. And of course the rest are fanfics or such, but I doubt if they would be any better than the three originals.
Elainiwen 2 years ago
@hijtohema Tolkien himself told once of his idea of creating a large base for stories and music, where others would have room to continue the work he begun. But them he laughed to his own idea.
But that's exactly what happened. Which is also funny but wonderful. And we're not lacking any items in Eä to make the art about. It's simply written so rich in detail.
Elainiwen 2 years ago
Tolkien has inspired my life with his books!! just brilliant!!
ithilianoctis 2 years ago 13
oh wow this is amazing! How did you find this?
Alia101 2 years ago 19
Surprisingly, it is quite easy to find such files since Professor Tolkien recorded quite a lot of things. Besides, you may find other interesting recordings and video clips on youtube (I uploaded quite a few of them myself).
Higgins380 2 years ago 4
yeah I actually went through your youtube and some others listening to old recordings. Thanks so much for putting all this up.
Alia101 2 years ago 13
You're welcome. ^^
Higgins380 2 years ago
GENIUS!! *******(seven stars!!!)
teakbridge101 2 years ago 2
what a beautiful and wonderful man ^^
Brady2k10 2 years ago
interesting to hear the voice of the man.
malicant123 2 years ago
just a brilliant man
tolkien423956 2 years ago
omg I know this one :D
DartsTheGnome 3 years ago
I am pleased that some recordings still exist of his own voice. His pen crafted the better part of my soul and heart. If there is any justice in this universe then the world of the silmarillion is where I will go when I die.
silverharper 3 years ago 3
I'll copy that. If I die and not wake up in valinor I'm gonna give the poor other dead souls around me quite a hard time. Just like now basically... -.-
LillianNarelle 3 years ago 2
A whole world creator..
outstanding work
the best
NextGenMusicTrailers 3 years ago 4
Brilliant, a true literary genius.
broseac 3 years ago 10
Great video!
Thank you very much for posting it!!!
VicTolkien 3 years ago 7
aaawe, he reminds me about Bilbo ^_^
MichelleSeven 3 years ago 48
Me too!!!!! :)
VicTolkien 3 years ago 3
Me three! :D
Tingilyawen 3 years ago 3
The melody is quite similar to the one by the Tolkien Ensemble. I wonder, if they were inspired by this unique recording?
Anorwna 3 years ago 8
lol dude I thought exactly the same.
If yes, they did good.
thats a honour to tolkien.
000000AEA000000 3 years ago 3