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This is PROJECT RestoreTOLKIEN
For the first time, all of Tolkien's precious Video/Audio materials (interviews/recordings) are compiled and organized and presented in CleanCut edition for the world to enjoy.
There are still some unreleased/hidden/lost materials out there; hopefully they will see the light of day eventually.
== for Tolkien, of Tolkien, by Tolkien reader ==
For the first time, all of Tolkien's precious Video/Audio materials (interviews/recordings) are compiled and organized and presented in CleanCut edition for the world to enjoy.
There are still some unreleased/hidden/lost materials out there; hopefully they will see the light of day eventually.
== for Tolkien, of Tolkien, by Tolkien reader ==
Christopher Tolkien reads Battle of Sauron/Finrod & Beren's Song of Parting
From Christopher Tolkien's voice recordings on The Silmarillion, these two songs deserve more mentioning.
JRRT had recorded only one song (Of Beren and Luthien, partial) from the Elder Days. These recordings by CT are the next best thing we have.
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Credit: Tolkien Estate
- for fan collection purposes only; copyright belongs to their owners.
JRRT had recorded only one song (Of Beren and Luthien, partial) from the Elder Days. These recordings by CT are the next best thing we have.
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Credit: Tolkien Estate
- for fan collection purposes only; copyright belongs to their owners.
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Tolkien - 1968 interview part-3 final - transcript (voice cloning)
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This upload is the final part of "Tolkien in Oxford" 1968 BBC interview. When BBC arranged several days to interview Tolkien in 1968, a lot of Video/Audio materials were never used and are still sitting in BBC storage. These unpublished materials are only available on transcript provided by Oxford professor Stuart Lee in 2018 (Tolkien in Oxford Reconstruction, PDF). The PDF file has a lot of go...
Tolkien - 1973 Last known footage of JRRT
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May 24, 1973 - Here Tolkien is seen chatting with a student, at Oxford Sheldonian Theatre to vote for the new Professor of Poetry. This footage was filmed by some passer-by. It is very short and perhaps the rarest & little known to the general public. Source: www.gettyimages.co.uk/videos/tolkien-poetry
Tolkien - Add-on footage 1968 - v1
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This add-on file is subject to deletion & re-upload regularly as old footage are found. v1 - 1m47s (I missed out on these segments from the existing 1968 materials) 1. 00:00 added 1s (no-no-no vs. no-no) 2. 00:06 added 4s (asked to summarize LOTR) 3. 00:12 added 22s (death) 4. 00:44 added 10s (listening) 5. 00:56 added 15s (photo, lunch at Eastgate Hotel, interview break) 6. 01:21 added 1s (cla...
JRR Tolkien - Photo Documentary 2023 - A Tribute
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Journey through Tolkien's life - in his own photos and voice - 200 photos of Tolkien himself, some are very rare - contains majority of all his published photos - voice recordings of JRRT and CJRT reading from the chapters Tolkien's photos are also precious, but this video isn't just a collection of those. This photo documentary is meant to be a heartfelt tribute. Life Timeline 00:00 First Age ...
Tolkien's MOST Infectious Laughter - audio collection
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Tolkien's secretary Naomi Collyer recalls: "...I had to laugh anyway because his humour was so infectious." So, here are some of Tolkien's MOST infectious laughter from radio interviews! JUST WHY? YES!
Christopher Tolkien reads "The Children of Hurin" (2007) -- audio excerpt
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This is an audiobook excerpt of Christopher Tolkien reading "The Children of Hurin" (2007). The entire main text is narrated by the late actor Christopher LEE in full (8 hours), with CJRT reading the Preface and Introduction. - Preface (4 pages) - 7 minutes - Introduction (14 pages) - 27 minutes Amazon US: www.amazon.com/The-Children-of-Hurin-Christopher-Lee/dp/B000WM9UK2/ Keep in mind that CJR...
Tolkien - 1954 Audio excerpt - Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
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This audio is an excerpt from his personal recording in 1954: "Homecoming of Beorhtnoth" HB is Tolkien's short writing (first published in 1953, 18 pages), inspired by the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon", which is based on the real historical event in 991 AD. HB is written in the form of an alliterative poem, but is also a play, being mainly a dialogue between two characters in the afte...
JRR Tolkien - 1964 1968 AUDIO interview fragments compilation 2023 - CleanCut
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Tolkien AUDIO interviews are also rare and scattered everywhere. This compilation collects 3 short fragments from his interviews 1964 and 1968. These are the lesser known materials. This upload concludes the last of all his AUDIO interview materials that there is (publicly available, as of 2023-03). (now let's wait until BBC releases some more 'lost' stuff at random...) SUBTITLES ON - accuracy ...
JRR Tolkien - 1965 AUDIO interview by BBC Gueroult - SUBTITLES
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This is just the same copy of the well-known interview, from 1965 BBC by Denys Gueroult. I include it here finally since I am already putting all of Tolkien's interviews in one spot in this channel. Subtitle is greatly improved than other online versions. Gueroult interviewed Tolkien in 1964.11 (short session) and 1965.01 (longer); BBC produced this longer remix from both sessions. Short versio...
Tolkien - 1929 Voice actor recordings
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This video is a compilation of Tolkien's two voice recordings from 1929. In 1929 (age 37) he took up a side-job as voice actor for extra cash. These are his earliest voice recording known in existence. 00:00 Lesson 20 - At a Tobacconist's 03:07 Lesson 30 - Wireless Credit / Source: sounds.bl.uk for fan collection purposes; copyright belongs to their owners Tolkien's audio recordings exist in 4 ...
JRR Tolkien - the forgotten TEXT interviews compilation 2023 - Part 1
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These are the much lesser known interviews of Tolkien: TEXT interviews There were about 20 traditional interviews with Tolkien that ever existed; articles were published in newspapers and magazines. Here are 9 of them, while the rest have proven difficult to track down - Texts are read by AI voices. Only Tolkien's direct quotes are included - All 9 audio files are combined here 40 minutes of au...
Tolkien - 1958 Hobbit Dinner SPEECH (extract) with photos in Holland
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This video is an assembly of various historical data to restore a precious moment: Tolkien Hobbit Dinner In 1958 Tolkien was invited to Rotterdam Holland for a Hobbit Dinner, where he also gave a speech. A tape recording of the speech was discovered in 1993 and was partially released in 2014. 1958: hobbit dinner 1993: tape discovered by RR (Rossenberg) 1996: event summary published by RR 2014: ...
Christopher Tolkien VIDEO interview compilation - CleanCut
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Christopher Tolkien video interview compilation - CleanCut edition GB Smith wrote to JRRT in 1916: "...may you say the things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them..." Thank You CJRT for taking up the torch after JRRT. 42:28 CJRT reads The Grey Havens 58:16 CJRT in France 2019 39:17 Priscilla Tolkien reads "Leaf by Niggle" Credit / Source: - "A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkie...
JRR Tolkien - All VIDEO interview compilation - CleanCut
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Tolkien VIDEO interviews are rare and scattered everywhere in different length and quality, and it's hard to keep track of them. This CleanCut edition attempts to improve that Result is a short film of just Tolkien and his own words. These footage are from 1962 & 1968 BBC, which are the only two VIDEO interviews of him that ever existed. - 27 minutes - collected all known released video of Tolk...
adding the subtitles must have taken some time, many thanks for the effort.
If only I can say how much I love you. See You in haven.
"I'm a meticulous sort of bloke " amen to that
He was a genius
So interesting to see how we all absorb fond or other types of personal memories and in case of writers, they bleed onto the page naturally. Tolkien enjoying fireworks explains to me their inclusion as well. Of course all of it is so seemless and natural and really not a big wonder but somehow the realization of these connections is really charming. It reveals human character well or rather what it means to be human.
I like his last comment. "I don't think I have much choice in the matter." Facts.
Saw the Jackson movies as a kid. I loved them, but never really cared to dive deep into Tolkien’s work until around a year ago. After about a year of just going further and further down the Tolkien rabbit hole (reading LOTR, The Silmarillion, letter 131), I’m still not done learning about this man and his works. He is THE GREATEST CREATIVE MIND OF ALL TIME in my opinion.
Certainly the greatest single storyteller of the 20th Century. Maybe ever. Creating an entire mythology equivalent to the mythology of an entire civilization's mythology is something I don't think anyone else has ever done. The Arthurian romances, the Celtic, Norse, Greek, Indian, Persian, Levant, Chinese etc. myths and legends were the product of many minds over centuries and millennia, and he managed to equal them. Dude was unreal.
"I don't desire to go and have afternoons talking Elvish to chaps" Man, Tolkien would be fucking bummed to see who his fans are
When I first heard about LOTR I thought it was just total make-believe that did not make any sense. Now, strangely, as I am coming of age it is the world that is not making much sense, and Tolkien’s stories that do, with all the charm and warmth conceivable.
Well, it ONLY takes being a fabulous literary and linguistic genius, and by the way a devout Catholic having fought in WWI, to write “Lord of the Rings” and so on. I love the man: what a mind and what a heart!!!
Its amazing that without Christopher Tolkien, we would have a less appealing and developed Arda.
Thanks for putting this together, fantastic work! I'm trying to decipher the audio at 5:02, it doesn't seem to match the transcript, but I'm afraid I'm not quite catching it. It sounds like "Yes, Yes, I drink tea each day" or something, but there's an "m" and "s" sound that makes it more like "Yes, Yes, I drink teamsy day." I'm going to crack at it a bit more and see if I can get it. The next lines seem correct about beer and feeling elevated. I dont think the line "yes, yes, I would think so" is correct.
Forever❤ ✒️✒️✒️
Absolutely. Watching him write is enough to bring me to tears, it’s so completely beautiful and captivating.
Thank you God for JRR Tolkien.
“My writing is far inferior to that of the elves..” It’s really sad that we don’t have more film and audio recordings of this man, and CS Lewis.. I’ll also say that a character like Dr. Who is based on this type of personality, a specifically English personality, the tweedy English don. That the contemporary BBC doesn’t understand this, and is trying to make Dr. Who something else, just shows you how stupid and vulgar they are. Boneheads, without any true sensibility at all..
2:49 what has it got in its pocketses
17:30 this man asked JRR Tolkien “where do you get your ideas from?”
I think Antony Hopkins would be perfect to play him a film of his life...
Anyone else feel hostility from that BBC interviewer? Or is that just britishness?
I just witnessed Tolkien writing Elvish with a fountain pen... magic
7:20 - "Hobbits? Well, when you meet them, you know. There's hobbits by nature and there's hobbits by stature and there's hobbits who happen to be both, yeah..." It is expressing a lot. The look right after the laugh, says even more.
I think the world's continents changed after the flood to get what we have today, I think since Tolkien is a Christian that is what he was thinking
I know they are father & son but my they sound similar. I must learn more.
Thanks for this wonderful archive ❤
26:01 - that “I havent noticed any” is so wholesome
The man who single-handedly wrote the fantasy genre. Modern fantasy writers have him for inspiration.
J.R.R.’s daughter Priscilla: One of Priscilla’s greatest contributions to the preservation of her father’s work, came through her years of engagement with the Tolkien Society, a membership organization and charity devoted to promoting the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien. While her brother Christopher, who was known to fans as the editor of Tolkien’s posthumous works, lived in France for most of his life, Priscilla remained in Oxford, and became engaged in fan communities. Christopher was only able to attend one event by the Tolkien Society during his lifetime: the 1992 Centenary Conference. Priscilla, on the other hand, was an annual presence at the Tolkien Society and became particularly known for generously hosting fans at her home. She was also the family’s photographic archivist of her father’s works. She went through all of her fathers papers and preserved them at Oxford.
4:22 "any author is obliged to call on his stock - private stock" what does that mean?
this interviewever is a major fan of the lore
Him talking in the dark tongue of Mordor was great, simply great
Can you imagine the things we wouldn't have if this man died in WW1? Now go figure what all those men who died in the World Wars could've done for this world if they hadn't died.
I feel like he’s talking about historical events not something that he actually created.
I just want to say thank you for your hard work putting this video together, it is appreciated!
And now we know where Rowley Burkin came from 😅
I think Tolkien's theological thesis of good and evil as extrapolated through Christianity runs circles around C. S. Lewis'. It would have been fascinating for Tolkien to have written a book dedicated to his philosophy of Christianity, like Lewis did, I think his conception of ethics might have been quite different. Although he seemed shy and wanted to keep his conceptions to himself, preferring not to challenge or propose his own version of official Catholic dogma and to instead imply it through his art. When people reduce hobbits to being simple traditional Catholics, I think people miss the point of Tolkien's statement that as he says here, the good characters do more damage than the bad ones in the final outcome of the story - simple resistance and sacrifices of desires to temptation don't work out as they ought to. It might even be alluded to that in the end result, the one trait of Christ he says might be ascribed to Frodo, of enduring suffering, and bearing through persecution, may just as accurately, between the lines, be described as a trait of Gollum. Tolkien said Frodo does not embody all of the traits of Christ though, since for Christ it does not matter how much a person has sinner, the goodness of Christ is supposed to redeem the seemingly irredeemable who are in ''too sticky'' as he puts it a situation, a Christ figure in the stickiest situation redeems the sinner with no stickiness, and it would not have been able to alienated Gollum. And precisely that Frodo and Sam alienated Gollum while following what may seem as, the perfect Catholic dogmatic way of life at home, is where the paradox in Tolkien's religious impact his background had upon his books lies. C. S. Lewis, on the other hand, lazily just hands an allegorical Christ in the symbol of a silly talking Lion who has a perfect ethic of selflessness. It is tragic that with such a good character, the videogame of Gollum could not be more interesting.
In Letters 329, Tolkien also writes "I neither preach nor teach". This sums up a major aspect between himself and CS Lewis.
Would've been interesting indeed. Oh just one point on Lewis' writing; he said didn't write Narnia as an allegory (it all started from pictures in his mind.) Rather he wrote Narnia (and space trilogy) as a supposal, a "what if God created other worlds, how would they differ, how would they play out, how would He interact with them?" Aslan isn't an allegory of Jesus but rather Lewis wrote of Aslan as if he was Jesus himself interacting with another world He created."
Words fall short. ln loving memory to this giant. I hope to meet him on the other side. In deep devotion I bow to this mighty human❤🔥
He appears to be such a kind-hearted and honest man fully without guile.
At 8:32, you can see the universal rawness of war in a man’s soul that knows he will never ever be able to forget how it touched his life. Being a Marine, I connected with this moment.
In spite of all the horrors he bore witness to, he didn't let it consume him and became one of the greatest writers in history.
Tolkien told the true history of our world. I'm convinced. ✨️
The actor who plays the captain in Titanic who is also Professor Stein in the Flash and Legends of Tomorrow would be the perfect actor to play Tolkien in a film about him! Hehe! Just sayin!
Tolkien's work is just a different level of fiction. The word 'genius' is so abused it's nearly lost it's meaning.... But I've no other word for this man. He was a genius.
The interviewer looks like a young Ian mckellen
Will always miss Christopher ❤️
I wonder if Christopher heard his father read these out loud. Reasonably likely, in my estimation. In any case, I would guess that Tolkien's own reading style of his poetry must have influenced Christopher to some extent.
Thank you for sharing this! It is wonderful!!
it's a strange but sweet feeling that tickles our minds as we listen to John Ronald respond mysteriously to those journalists from 1968. An insider's feeling. We know what they didn't know at the time. Thanks to Christopher, we know the history of the Silmarils, we know the captivating beauty of the forests of Doriath, of the willows of Nan-Thatren bathed by the waters of Sirion. We have all imagined the mountainous walls of the Crissaegrim protecting Gondolin. We all wept for the outrages suffered by Hurin and his children, and by so many other children of Illuvatar. So many legendary stories, so many mythical landscapes are discovered with each word written by Tolkien. Hearing the master speak to people who knew nothing about Beleriand and the splendors and miseries that took place there gives me a selfish feeling of love for the spirit of this man. We feel close to him, because, thanks to the colossal work of his son, the history of Middle Earth is part of our lives. Love you John and Christopher!!!
Seeing him write Elvish was CRAAAAAAZYY. Incredible.
he looks like a hobbit
14:16 i understand that propaganda might have been a touchy subject closer to the war, but my god did the interviewer have a lecturing tone he felt to be twice tolkien's age in spirit