How J.R.R. Tolkien's Estate Keeps Finding New Books to Publish (Real Footage)
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- I'm not even complaining, though; I'll keep buying all the new books. (Also, to be clear, I mean no disrespect to Tolkien's estate. This is just for LOLs.)
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THERES ALWAYS ANOTHER SECRET!!!
Unironically though, some of the tidbits that have been published lately based off Tolkien's scraps are very interesting. Like apparently Numenor had dancing bears? As in, bears that literally dance? I didn't need to know that, but I'm very glad I now do.
Mistborn reference?
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@@hiiamsam4808 you're 40 years off
@@hotpocketbagel that's the joke
What Tolkien had for breakfast(years 1950-1970 part 1 )
And after parts 2 and 3, the sequel: "What Tolkien had for second breakfast." Amazon could milk this cow for a decade. 😁
“You ever consider writing your own material?” 😂😂😂
Omg thank you I was so proud of that line 🤪
I've been thinking that so many times. We are so fixated on originality, yet we constantly swallow all those recycled series and movies. Then when James Cameron turns up with his own fantasy world, they yell: "How unoriginal: Pocahontas in space!" before they bingewatch the 3rd reimagining of their favourite Marvel character again.
Mad respect for Terry Pratchett seeing this behaviour and saying, "yeah, delete all my stuff when I die". Sucks that we can't see the ideas he had, but it'd suck even more for this to happen to his legacy
He actually requested his hard drive be crushed by a Steamroller TheMoreYouKnow.Gif
If they had deleted Tolkien’s notes after he died, his life’s work (The Silmarillion) would’ve never been published.
@@lukesewell8294 but his children wouldn't have that weight on their shoulders either
How do the posthumous books diminish Tolkien's legacy? Not publishing _The History of Middle-earth_ would have been a huge loss to Tolkien fans. Not only did it provide far more detail than the books published in his lifetime, it demonstrated how much work he put into reworking his drafts over months and years, a process that many popular fiction writers today happily skip right over in the rush to market. It certainly wasn't a legacy diminishing cash grab which is more than I can say about all the post _LotR_ productions the estate has agreed to in the last 20 years.
The funniest part is that Christopher’s son did try writing his own thing and apparently it didn’t do too well
That's a shame
where did you see this?
JRR Tolkien, Jr, Jr? From the Robot Chicken sketch?? 😂
i love the unnecessarily good cover for the book
I'm pretty sure Vladimir Nabokov meant Pale Fire to be a satire, not a guide book.
I really enjoyed all those footnotes in The Histories of Middle Earth Volume 9 about the king of Zembla and his heroic escape from the anarchist uprising in his country, and then how Kinbote tied it all back to the Fall of Numenor by comparing the anarchists to Sauron. Beautiful stuff.
Same thing with Lolita, I hope.
Are we considering the tome Tolkien wrote on the dividing wall of a bathroom stall in northern London in 1959, while having LBM?
There’s some debate over the canonical legitimacy of those scrawlings. While most scholars accept “Aragorn + Arwen 4 Evah” to be Tolkien’s own hand, a growing contingent argue that “Sam rulez, Frodo droolz” looks like the work of CS Lewis.
@@Scientist_Salarian .... I hadn't considered that! Great research! (LOL)
Yes, after the grocery list he scribbled on the last piece of toilet paper during the war.
You sure we’re not talking about Dune here?
Brian Herbert doesn't need "notes" to write more Dune, he'll just make shit up.
Condradicts his father's books? No they don't. You're reading it wrong.
Hahaha, facts. I keep far away from anything Dune with 'Brian' on the cover.
Real footage of Oronzo Cilli compiling material for "Tolkien's Library: an annotated checklist", circa 2015
This comment makes me happy.
And yet, where are the notes on language construction‽ Surely he must have documented parts of the process (if not directly then at least in the form of earlier iterations on the languages), and that would actually be interesting to read.
There is an annual magazine that gets published that discusses tolkiens languages anf his notes. I cant remember what its called though. Something like "parm eldarion"
@@callnight1441 Parma Eldalamberon. And an issue on Taliska grammar has been announced but obviously delayed, again.
@@eugene8498 The fact that I've waited nearly half my life for the Taliska grammar hurts.
But the fact that some people have been waiting for it from PE since like the 90's hurts even more.
It really do be like that though. 😢
This hurts and I would buy his doodle that was in his Brasililian tour book
With Christopher Tolkien gone and with what Tolkien's estate been doing in recent years I simply refuse to buy any new releases about Tolkien, no matter what.
The "nature of middle earth" was actually pretty cool though and did include a lot of unreleased material. Like apparently numenor had dancing bears; and aragorn was never supposed to have a beard because of his elvish blood
One last major release would be a grammar of Taliska (the language of Edain), it's been announced decades ago that Tolkien wrote a complete grammar. Beyond that, I think they milked out ME.
Christopher himself was responsible for starting all this with Beren and Luthien and The Fall of Gondolin, which weren't even complete versions of those stories but advertised as if they were.
@@squamish4244 And I'm grateful he did. Seeing the evolution of these stories laid out was some of the best material I've read. He did that at the end of his life, too, knowing this would be the last chance he'd get, so I'm inclined to think he did it out of a genuine desire to preserve these stories for the world.
I can't think of a single posthumous Tolkien book that diminished his legacy. All the post _LotR_ productions the estate has agreed to in the last 20 years, on the other hand, was an embarrassing cash grab from greedy grandchildren and great-grandchildren who barely knew the man, if at all.
Sadly this really hits the nail on the head.
Now do one for Dune
Alas, I have to read Dune first. (I WILL get around to it eventually.)
Loved the first book! Then I read the second book and wanted to scream.
@@ifbookscouldreallytalk I am in the middle of Children of Dune, but I am planning on finishing the series by late May. If no one replies by then, I will let you know what I think about the latter three in the series
Brian herbert isn't endlessly recycling his father's scraps. He's throwing out the scraps, writing his own, and pretending they were his father's.
@@someperson8249 Oi, what didya think ’bout the latter 3?
Everyday Tolkien - a comprehensive compilation of Tolkien‘s To Do and shopping lists 😅
Limited edition comes with the booklet „Doodles“.
I love the little Easter egg that the doodle is in a book about switzerland
😂😂 I love it skits man, keep it up
I like that you included TESCO for that british acuracy
Why do you think they didn't publish all of Tolkien's letters in a complete edition? Only reissuing the old volume with further selections to justify people buying it? Because, I'd bet, they want to stretch out the publication of all Tolkien's letters for as long as possible.
That is a lot of travel books
ye ok but the silmarillion is amazing i love it.
2:24 “Unifinished”
What does the unfinished poem say? It’s blurry.
Bro made all these lore sketches thinking it won't sell. Lewis in heaven probably looked at Tolkien and went "Told you so."
Road to Serfdom is believable for Tolkien's library.
Brasil mencionado 🎉
May I ask what is a "bestellter"? 🤔
"He was a very annotated man." 😅 I'm looking forward to the Amazon series of this poem. It will probably become the most expensive series of all time.
Yeah, with all the serializations, prequels, sequels, midquels, reimaginings and adaptations, you would think we might finally expect something new and original in the fantasy landscape but I think it might take another decade of flavourless chewing gum before we get there…
Yeah, it's just a cash grab at this point. It's gross.
mhmm
Do this but for dune
There is only one God and that's Fortnite Kelsier.
Spoken like a true Ghostblood
hahahaha yes
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Heh heh