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Uploaded by on Aug 16, 2009

The Life of J R R Tolkien Narrated by Judi Dench, Christopher Tolkien

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  • The machine is our addiction to the gadget. The apparatus of the State. The creature rather than the creator. Our love of power.

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  • For how much Tolkien covered, he even missed the origin of his distaste the base of the problems and for which all of you comment you don't even hit the target let alone the range on which you aim.

  • Tolkien lived in the age when he saw the technology taking over the lifestyle of history. He was pretty much sad about the electricity wires and driving roads taking over the scenery of his childhood. I hope this explains his dislike for technology, for a certain era. He did learn to like certain equipments later, though.

    Somehow Pink Floyd's "High Hopes" rises in my mind thinking of that idea.

  • Like Tolkien, I wish the automobile had never been invented.  It's the major contributor to our fast-paced lifestyle, which I don't like.

  • @aswedish1 "the machine" is the mechanism of control and coercion. It is a symbolic representation of the mechanism to control and dominate others. It could be a magic ring, or it could be the literal machines of industry that change the world. Tolkien saw machines as a way to dominate others.

  • l am really bad at english, the only thing l dont understand i what is the machine?

  • @SASNIGHTCRAWLER Tolkien wasn't anarchist

  • @SASNIGHTCRAWLER no it means literal machines with smoke and moving parts and everything, its a pink floyd song haha

  • @belisariusorb my imps are imagination rendered physical, so I should feel bad too. oh well. we can't all be tolkien

  • @morphinemoniza Would be too demoralising for me as I'm working on a radio play of a fantastical legend. I like your imps by the way, sexy and weird.

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