Christopher Tolkien - Silmarillion

Christopher Tolkien reads an extract from The Silmarillion

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[nelaqua]

cool i forgot that heßs so old i have the book letters by the santa clause and there he was 10 i think

[Higgins380]

Professor Tolkien wrote the famous Father Christmas Letters from December 1920 to December 1943: Christopher was consequently 19 years old when his father wrote the last letter to Priscilla. ^^

Christopher Tolkien is now 84.

[Ccomaffayod]

Hahaha.... :-) Christopher Tolkien is far easier to understand than his dear father. Much as I adore J.R.R. Tolkien, his manner of speaking was extraordinarily difficult to understand sometimes... He muttered and mumbled a lot. You can hear this if you listen to interviews with him. It's sort of funny that he spoke so unclearly, if you think about it, since he was such a wonderful creator of words and languages.

[mothershipjellyfish]

Love this passage! And his voice sounds very similar to his dad's.

[TheLightofAniu]

@K4inan I have Asperger's as a matter of fact, and I often do speak at supersonic speed, but at times I can slow but not often, it is difficult, and an effect of Asperger's is an advanced vocabulary, which people say I have, I speak in an older manner, and people say I was born in the wrong era, and I write fantasy stories, have finished first book, and I have been told I write the way I speak

[K4inan]

@Ccomaffayod He must've had some sort of autism, most likely Asperger's x)

[labrynianrebel]

@labrynianrebel This along with Peter Jackson's trilogy and the two hobbit movies would make a "Middle-Earth Saga" 9 movies long, a good middle-earth number :)

[labrynianrebel]

@klevdud IMO The Silmarillion should be a trilogy The Lay of Luthien, The Children of Hurin and The Fall of Gondolin. The creation of Arda and everything else in between the "main stories" in my opinion should be backstory, like how the defeat of Sauron was the backstory of the Lord of the Rings movies. Then The Fall of Numenor should be it's own standalone movie with the defeat of Morgoth as the backstory.

[klevdud]

Someone should make a large movie about the stories in the silmarillion for example: the creation of arda (probably abit boring but i would had watched it) which for example lasts from the creation of the valar to the beginning of the exile of the noldor/war of the jewles. then make a 2nd movie which is about the war of the jewels + war of the wrath and the doom of beleriand. then make a 3rd movie about the fall of numenor and the war of the dwarves and goblins in the gray mountains. my opinion.

[KlausDigestive]

I have read the trilogy, The Hobbit, Silmarillion, Narn i (C)hîn Húrin and i am now readin The Book of Lost Tales. It is amazing how wonderful stories John and Christopher wrote. And the fact that John created the stories, and stok on to them, and created so many wonderful books and still managed to make it all stick together, is absolutely amazing. I will never forget reading them

[hippojuice23]

a little more clear than Dad's though, :)