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You can feel just how much Tolkien despises allegory the minute the interviewer uses the word.

I love him so much 🤗

I wish we could get Tolkien on Rogan and really flesh this stuff out

I love that we need to have captions to understand Big T.

How have we fallen so far away from such intelligent thought and speech? I know tolkien was probably still an outlier of his time in the way he speaks so eloquently, but who comes even close to speaking like him today??

You can tell it was filmed a long time ago because the interviewer never asked him about the lack of gender queer bipoc hobbits.

I love his LOTR Characters, accept hobbits

This is how I design, I try to imagine how I experience the interiors. Like how do i see the ceiling when Im lying down in bed etc what do i do before goin to sleep etc

"the made thing is useless unless it is something that will be remembered" 🖤💯

Uggh i think it is really hard to come up with fictional world with characters and they are cohesive. I am finding a hard time designing a room, imagine making/designing a world 😂 Writers are sooooo creative! I admire them ❤ what if schizophrenic people are really born as great writers they just don't know how to channel God's gifts??

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I love that Sir Ian McKellen took some of Tolkien’s spoken mannerisms and applied to Gandalf. We can really hear Tolkien in how Gandalf talks in the Jackson trilogy.❤

It’s just fucking insane to drop one of the most iconic and legendary quotes of all time right there at the end as a quick retort to a closing question.

This man was smart AF

Britain before the genocide 😭😭

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and you have hacks these days, who can't even speak intelligently, say they will write the book Tolkien never wrote. Pitty (hear me, Amazon?)

“I don’t think you can distinguish the made thing, unless it says something, it won’t be remembered.” No wonder he ended the interview there. Professor’s on another level.

These guys like Tolkien and Lewis were on a whole other intellectual and academic level from modern people.

Fascinating interview. I also find it amazingly informative that he doesn’t believe in absolute evil but he does believe in absolute good.

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Interviewer. "is this another word for what Freud would call the unconscious?" Tolkien. "No!" Interviewer. "No i didnt think it was". He clearly did.

3:13 is the look of someone who has a world in their head fuled by a non stop imagination. Such a good interview

Tolkien ' That's because I'm a meticulous sort of bloke".

In reading his work (LOTR) in particular; Tolkien was very deliberate in every word he wrote.

Nobody at Amazon watched this then 😂

When the English Language had power and substance.

Take 14 years to make the story! wow

And now we have rings of power, shitting on this brilliant man's dream

Reporters ask stupid questions.

“The made thing has to have said something or it won’t be remembered”

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Tolkien's imagination is truly powerful to be able to create such a fantasy world as Middle Earth made up of so many good beings like Man, Elves ,Dwarfs, Wizards and other halflings like Hobbits and Harfoots and evil slithery beings like Orcs, Trolls and so on battling to take control of that world. Finally Good triumphs over Evil.

Man, oh, man. That i reviewer is sharp as a tack! And nowadays we have the likes of Cardi B interviewing presidential candidates “Aye so uhmmm like whatchu gon’ do ‘bout da uhmm like all da peoples prahlums an’ all dat?”

Anybody get Gandalf vibes from Tolkien in this? His intelligence, deep thought out answers, delivered cleverly and in few words.

Magical.

This interviewer sounds more like an inquisidor! 😅😅😅

The interviewer - of whom other commenters here have mixed opinions - is John Bowen, writer of some of the most imaginative, bizarre and unsettling television drama of the 1960s and 70s.

“You invented this World before you invented the Hobbit. Why?” Tolkien: “Why not.”

I love the way he just shrugged his shoulders when asked why he made the world first 😂 you don't always have a reason to start. Most often i just do things and also don't know why exactly

Familiarity of the process of creation...feel this.

honestly I find the questioning to be obtuse and annoying.

such a humble man. such intelligent eye expression.

I tried reading lord of rings once and put the book down, now I know the guy writes likes he talks lol, Don’t get me wrong, I definitely wanna give his books a go someday

Excellent, my favourite author being interviewed by a competent journalist. A rare thing in this modern age.

Marvellous to watch.

This interviewer exists in a time when the utmost in being pretentious was not yet pretentious

The host tried very much to sound smart but the questions are so cringe

The ill - informed interviewer is asking all the wrong questions. He wants modern, rational justification and is missing the point that Tolkien's books come not just from scholarly labour but are works of profound soul and imagination, of love. You can see Tolkien struggling to be patient at the idiotic questions as if he wants Tolkien to ' explain' himself . Disrespectful.