Tolkien Reads The Ride of the Rohirrim

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  • Tolkien reads the Ride of the Rohirrim. The original version of this/the channel that originally posted this video seems to no longer exist, so I am reposting it here for all to enjoy! I would give them credit if I could. If anyone knows them, let me know!
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  • @discordlexia2429
    @discordlexia2429 ปีที่แล้ว +1254

    If you ever feel like you can't ever create anything worthwhile, remember that Tolkien thought this sequence was kind of weak and considered scrapping it.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Great point! Haha

    • @jdeckape
      @jdeckape 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      I mean, he was really lucky on that editorial decision because that sequence just barely salvaged the entire trilogy.

    • @jonathanlindstrom347
      @jonathanlindstrom347 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      @@jdeckape what

    • @jdeckape
      @jdeckape 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      @@jonathanlindstrom347 sarcasm

    • @jonathanlindstrom347
      @jonathanlindstrom347 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@jdeckape *embarassed noises*

  • @ryanfox5747
    @ryanfox5747 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    RIP Bernard Hill

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      I go to my fathers in whose mighty company, I shall not now feel ashamed

  • @HatakeKakashi603
    @HatakeKakashi603 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    And so passes Théoden, King of Rohan, Lord of the Riddermark, Last of the second line of Kings and first of his name. May he find honor in the halls of his fathers.

  • @kalleh6400
    @kalleh6400 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    Never before and again was a mortal man compared to one of the Valar, a middleman none the less. I hope that Bernard Hill is now sitting next to the Valar and his forefathers in peace.
    Rest In Peace

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Amen

    • @aaronmerijanian4720
      @aaronmerijanian4720 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@Pop_Culture_Podcast "I go to the halls of my fathers but even in their grand company I shall not be ashamed" rest easy Bernard Hill

    • @Rauruatreides
      @Rauruatreides 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Not with the Valar, as they are bound to the circles of the world, unlike men. If he were to be with someone other than his forefathers, it would rather be with Illuvatar.

  • @modernoverman
    @modernoverman 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +31

    What is brilliant about Tolkien's prose here, is that there really isn't detail about the actual fight itself, more of the epic and poetic nature of what it felt like to have witnessed such an event. Mythic.

  • @humungus3
    @humungus3 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    God I love hearing his pronunciations and cadence. The part where he says spears shall be shaken. Shields be splintered sounded for all the world to me like it was from the Beowulf intro.

  • @remconoordermeer7015
    @remconoordermeer7015 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    This was beautiful. J.R.R. Tolkien was indeed as masterful linguist. Imagine listening to him reciting the entire trilogy as an epic ballad.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It gets to me too

    • @TRivan-kx2bi
      @TRivan-kx2bi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      As story-tellers go, Tolkien is up there with Homer, Shakespeare, and whoever wrote Beowulf.

  • @taitano12
    @taitano12 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    Now I wish we had an audiobook with Tolkien reading his own works like this. What a WONDERFUL voice he had for narrating.

    • @alexk8599
      @alexk8599 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Something AI will be able to do within a couple of years probably

    • @taitano12
      @taitano12 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alexk8599 If not already. I wonder if anyone has yet petitioned his estate on the matter.

    • @rook9714
      @rook9714 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@alexk8599that would be orc-work indeed

  • @sageofcaledor8188
    @sageofcaledor8188 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    “I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed…” King Thoden of Rohan

  • @annatar1139
    @annatar1139 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    I love how Tolkien slowly builds up the metaphor of the water breaking the dam, at first just "pouring in slowly but steadily" and then when charging they "roared like a breaker foaming to the shore": As one could say: The dam of uncertainty is breached and the full force of light and horse and bravery is sweeping over the orcs... So amazing...

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So awesome

    • @lordoftherings999
      @lordoftherings999 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes! Even more, he continued the tidal metaphors during Éomer’s charge, in the next chapter, when the Rohorrim go berserk and charge the enemy recklessly crying “Death! Death!”

  • @Grivian
    @Grivian 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +37

    I love how Tolkien gets caught up in the moment while reading this

    • @johnord684
      @johnord684 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And why wouldn't he ,he never saw it in motion picture as he died in 1973

  • @Rhovaniell
    @Rhovaniell หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Hail Theoden, king! May he rest in peace!

  • @schawdaya
    @schawdaya 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    The man survived world war I, lost several of his best friends in the process, and instead of drinking himself to an early grave and beating his family out of grief he chose to create one of the most beautifully crafted stories of our time. I wish I got to meet him

  • @Intreductor
    @Intreductor หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    "Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before:"
    "Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young."
    Bernard Hill embodied Theoden to legendary levels.

  • @sbh_tx
    @sbh_tx หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    Hail Theoden King of the Mark. may you find peace in the halls of your fathers. Hail now Eomer, King.

    • @maryhales4595
      @maryhales4595 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Hail the victorious dead.

  • @ajsabourin
    @ajsabourin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    The comparison of Théoden to Oromë *chef's kiss*

    • @Klongu_Da_Bongu
      @Klongu_Da_Bongu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It might have also hinted that the spirit of Oromë was with him when he charged that day, in fact giving him that boost he needed.

  • @RBv195
    @RBv195 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    If only Tolkien had narrated his entire work

    • @johnathonclayton6964
      @johnathonclayton6964 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      What for, then no one would want to watch Lord of the Rings lol

    • @ij1376
      @ij1376 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I'm with Ryan, it would've been marvelous.

    • @NikoHL
      @NikoHL 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@johnathonclayton6964 what do you mean watch. Read it, scoundrel.

    • @Storm_Crown
      @Storm_Crown 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@NikoHL He means it would be so good that nobody would watch the movie.

  • @Mdevac
    @Mdevac หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Hail the victorious dead.

  • @TheNorthwestWind
    @TheNorthwestWind หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    HAIL THE VICTORIOUS DEAD

  • @EkaridonGaming
    @EkaridonGaming 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    The parallel between Hurin saying "The day shall come once more" back in the first age in the battle of many tears, and Theoden saying " 'Ere the sun rises!" in the third age. Beautiful.

    • @blankisblind9474
      @blankisblind9474 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Never noticed that before. That makes this so much better. Thank you!

  • @ryangibson5462
    @ryangibson5462 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    RIP to Bernard Hill

  • @user-sy6xk6ei2k
    @user-sy6xk6ei2k 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    "Too late was worse than never."
    Hits hard

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I once read someone’s comment: “A soldier who has been through war knows that feeling”. (Or something like that). I think about this every time I hear that phrase. Brings me to tears most times

    • @Tax_Collector01
      @Tax_Collector01 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Rather a man have not seen the grim reality of the situation, than to have bear witness in person.

    • @Orbowitz
      @Orbowitz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Being a veteran myself, it's very true ​@Pop_Culture_Podcast

  • @frykate1
    @frykate1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Gives me goosebumps. It feels like an ancient myth passed along through oral tradition.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Very cool 😊

    • @ventusbruma1039
      @ventusbruma1039 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Fun fact, it's what Tolkien was going for. He was always upset that because of it's history and the various groups who'd conqured it in the past, Britian had lost most of its mythology. So he made the Lord of the Rings to be that. He even went so far as to joke that he got the story from a red book he found buried in an old ruin.

  • @BrianWhitakerZBC
    @BrianWhitakerZBC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    One of the joys of this reading is that, when you listen carefully to Theoden's speech, starting when he says "shield be splintered", you hear Tolkien change his accent to an accent reminiscent of Old English, the language he used as inspiration for the culture of the Rohirrim. It's marvelous to hear him step backwards into a deeper time -- come to think of it, I wonder if he was conscious of doing it.

  • @darthmeta6445
    @darthmeta6445 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    Whoever paired each notable scene in the reading with its counterpart scene in the movie did one hell of a job synchronizing them. I couldn't believe how well they were paired together.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I cannot find the original. If you do, please share!

    • @darthmeta6445
      @darthmeta6445 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Pop_Culture_Podcast This was the first time I've ever heard of this - I didn't even know there was an original... If by some miracle I do stumble over the original, then I'll try to share it.

  • @DragonLover
    @DragonLover หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Yesterday the world lost a great man. Hail Théoden King, may you now rest forever in the halls of your fathers for the world is now just a little bit darker without your brilliance to shine upon it.

  • @Sigma0283
    @Sigma0283 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    In Gondor’s darkest hour, Rohan came to its aid.

  • @NickMaroudas1
    @NickMaroudas1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    A man who had spent WW1 in the trenches and seen unbelievable sadness and pain could pour out all his imagination and feelings into dozens of books. I wish I had as much determination and creativity as JRR Tolkien

  • @etienneporras7252
    @etienneporras7252 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    The gravity with which he reads the word "boom". I legit shiverred.

  • @mikedicewrites
    @mikedicewrites 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    This brought me close to tears, to actually hear the voice of the writer himself *with* the movie. 😭Beautiful.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It hits me too man

    • @TRivan-kx2bi
      @TRivan-kx2bi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "I will not say do not weep. For not all tears are evil"- Gandalf

  • @saladinbob
    @saladinbob 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    There's a beauty about Tolkien's usage of language that is unparalleled by any other author.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Agreed

    • @TRivan-kx2bi
      @TRivan-kx2bi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Indeed. Tolkien is up there with Homer, Shakespeare, and whoever wrote Beowulf.

  • @sirdrum7104
    @sirdrum7104 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Rip my king

  • @colmoconnor4465
    @colmoconnor4465 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Our boy Théoden snatching a horn and blowing it so mightily it breaks in two. That would pump you up to charge headfirst into the host of Mordor

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hell ya!

    • @Wax_Man
      @Wax_Man 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I read that as horse not horn. I was like, "uh, we watching the same thing?"

    • @huyxiun2085
      @huyxiun2085 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It actually would have suck. I understand why they didn't keep that for the movie, it's not cinematic and anticlimactic.
      When you read it, it's fine (if you lack imagination).
      When you listen to someone telling it (like here), it sounds epic.
      But if you had witnessed it... hearing it (barely seeing anything), that would just have been the beginning of a horn, a blast, a big dude doing "pfffrrt" with his lips, and a terrible omen.

  • @profbucko
    @profbucko หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Hail the victorious dead!

  • @PaulrHobson
    @PaulrHobson หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Hail the victorious dead! 😢

  • @guardianofthetoasters2323
    @guardianofthetoasters2323 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I didn't realize he passed away... may you find peace in your family's embrace sir Bernard Hill.

  • @JayFunningham
    @JayFunningham หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Hearing him read this makes me realise how his epic passages harness the spirit of great poetry/rap/spoken word. Their flow and force take the meaning of the words to a new level.

  • @KaiMagSchoko
    @KaiMagSchoko 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    i can't explain why but i cried

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It hits me too. No shame.

    • @braquemar
      @braquemar 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Blood memory

  • @Jelboo
    @Jelboo 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    Yo this guy was a stone cold genius. No one will ever do high fantasy better in all of history to come.

  • @MajorLeeAwesome
    @MajorLeeAwesome 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    That horn added in has no reason to hit as hard as it does.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Hits so good

    • @AnotherHistorianWargamer
      @AnotherHistorianWargamer 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's probably a reference to Roland, one of Charlemagne's Paladins, blowing his horn in his last battle so hard his temples bled.

    • @elthionel
      @elthionel หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@AnotherHistorianWargamer and the charge of the Rohrimm inspired by the Winged Hussars of Poland breaking the Siege of Vienna

  • @SaulOhio
    @SaulOhio 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    It was Tolkien that taught me to love to read. I still remember being completely engrossed, lost in these very passages, the narrative of this battle.
    I wish I could speak to Tolkien, and thank him.

    • @mushroomcloud1
      @mushroomcloud1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He brought to the page, tales that live in our very blood.

    • @TheShurikenZone
      @TheShurikenZone หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The sentiments of a great many of us; well said, friend.

  • @Eowyn3Pride
    @Eowyn3Pride ปีที่แล้ว +17

    My good Lord! 😢 THIS WAS AMAZING! Brought to tears at the sound of The Professor himself Mustering the Rohirrum!!!❤❤❤🧝‍♂️🧝‍♀️🧙‍♂️🍻

  • @jihost2589
    @jihost2589 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    All credit to Peter Jackson and Bernard Hill for capturing the absolute essence of this sequence. Yes many of the details are subdued and absent, but when you hear the reading over the scene it just clicks so well!

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So great

    • @Locahaskatexu
      @Locahaskatexu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Pop_Culture_Podcast As much as that is possible, perhaps I'm hearing something in Tolkien's voice, perhaps I'm merely imagining it, but the way Tolkien describes it? Jackson and Hill barely captured half of it in my opinion... what Tolkien reads is so much more powerful, it's beautiful!

    • @FurnitureFan
      @FurnitureFan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bernard Hill is a great actor.

  • @edgarulisescespedeschew4279
    @edgarulisescespedeschew4279 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    "But Theoden could not be overtaken", IMO is right next to "and Morgoth came." as most epic lines in the Legendarium.

  • @austinwood468
    @austinwood468 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins.

  • @Ataraxia462
    @Ataraxia462 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    I’m reading return of the king every night for my 10 year old and this was the one chapter I absolutely could not wait to read. I’m not shamed to admit I choked up. Theoden being compared to Orome is the epitome of the word epic.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Incredible. I hope to have the same experience some day. Thanks for sharing!

    • @ZentetsukenVII
      @ZentetsukenVII 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My dad read these books to me when I was around the same age. I would build model airplanes with his help whilst he read to me. Truly one of the best memories I have with him. This entire section stood out to me so hard because I could hear the emotion in my dads voice reading just how epic this all was. Now that I'm a grown man now, I totally get it.

    • @Ataraxia462
      @Ataraxia462 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ZentetsukenVIII finished the chapter and my son asked me if I was crying. “Why yes son, as a matter of fact I can’t help it.”

  • @MisterLambda
    @MisterLambda 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    His cadence and the pace at which he reads it makes the text all that more palpable, I imagine he knew in an out exactly how each line in the book should be read. - No Audiobook will probably ever compare.
    The only one who knows would be his children, they could probably reenact how they remember him reading it to them, but I don’t think we will ever get to see that.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Chills

    • @cobchob
      @cobchob 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      For what it's worth, I am an elementary school teacher and I am reciting an abridged version of the story for my students, little by little, each day. These stories work exceptionally well when spoken aloud, and to a room of enraptured students, each story beat rings out clear and true. It is near impossible to recount these events in front of an audience without being swept up in the momentum of the story. Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

  • @ComicalHealing
    @ComicalHealing ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Only one other being in Middle-earth besides Fingolfin was ever compared to Orome, and that was Theoden.

  • @aaronswords404
    @aaronswords404 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    One of the best scenes ever written. The scene where Aragorn bows to the hobbits is another one that gets me every time.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup!

    • @pamelah6431
      @pamelah6431 ปีที่แล้ว

      That line from Aragorn gave me goosebumps just reading your comment!

  • @bringerod5141
    @bringerod5141 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I like the addition of shouting “death” before they ride to gain courage, it is a very Norse way of going into a fight

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ya it was badass

    • @joshf6136
      @joshf6136 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Jackson took that from later on in the battle - in the book, after Eomer finds Theoden dead and Eowyn wounded, he starts chanting "Death" and all the Rohirrim chant it with him until Aragorn arrives.

    • @bringerod5141
      @bringerod5141 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@joshf6136 That's awesome! Currently listening to the audiobooks so I have that to look forward to :D (I'm on the two towers)

  • @MajinBadat
    @MajinBadat 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    This brings tears to my eyes.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Same

    • @danielreshef5299
      @danielreshef5299 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      If it doesn’t, you’re either illiterate or simply not human.

    • @Lorihian
      @Lorihian 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And goosebumps!

    • @itaka92
      @itaka92 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I literally just got tears in my eyes, came to the comment sections afterwards and saw your comment. Same brother, same.

    • @rusenakman
      @rusenakman 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      so say we all

  • @wolftal1178
    @wolftal1178 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    The professor really had a way with words.
    He truly was the master of the written word. The way this has been done as absolutely astounding! Well done.👍

  • @srbin12
    @srbin12 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The book was just simply amazing. Movies were awesome as well, but the writing was a masterpiece

  • @ljss6805
    @ljss6805 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Am I the only one who shudders at the way Tolkien says the word "boom"?

  • @marvelnarniaarda6241
    @marvelnarniaarda6241 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    "At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before:
    Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
    Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
    spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
    a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
    Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
    With that he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.
    Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
    Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new tire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City."

  • @Raggmopp-xl7yf
    @Raggmopp-xl7yf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I wish Jackson would have emphasized the horns more. In the book it was something Tolkien used to spark hope into the breast of the people of Gondor. Saying that forever after tears would spring to Pippin's eyes whenever he heard a horn.
    "Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin’s sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.”

    • @McDuffin
      @McDuffin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I agree. They did a great job adding to the speech and I feel it the horns were used right it would have made theodan’s speech that much better.

    • @davidx9901
      @davidx9901 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wish a lot about what Jackson did…

  • @mikelshort9150
    @mikelshort9150 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Hail Theoden, Son of Thengul, King of the Golden Hall.

  • @roarytheromanarcanine
    @roarytheromanarcanine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    It’s a pity that Tolkien did not record his own narration of his magnum opus. The lord of the rings is narrated perfectly by its creator.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is him tho, no?

    • @karlwilhelmmeinert7592
      @karlwilhelmmeinert7592 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Pop_Culture_Podcast Did he record all of the books though?

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@karlwilhelmmeinert7592 no idea

    • @roarytheromanarcanine
      @roarytheromanarcanine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Pop_Culture_Podcast this is him, yes. I should have been more clear. Tolkien did not narrate every sentence in the lord of the rings, just this, Sam’s “troll song”, gollum’s riddles, and a few others.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@roarytheromanarcanine oh cool. I wasn’t aware of that!

  • @b1j
    @b1j ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Dude can write.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup!

    • @francescofavro8890
      @francescofavro8890 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      yeah, he should, like, try to write a whole book like this.

    • @nicolasmoreno95
      @nicolasmoreno95 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This guy, what’s his name? Tolkien, I think? He seems to enjoy fantasy literature

  • @Sigma0283
    @Sigma0283 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    In Gondor's darkest hour, Rohan came to the rescue.

  • @krischan67
    @krischan67 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Wonderful. I think I have to read the books again.
    Ere the sun rises!

    • @chrisburgett165
      @chrisburgett165 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A truly wonderful idea

    • @unclebounce1495
      @unclebounce1495 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yes and remember what sjw dei trash the movies actually were, sadly. (theatrical releases, especially) nonetheless, they were a success better than nothing but a far lack of what they could've been without beddling propaganda and arrogant re-writes of the better's work by lessers

    • @FrancT-
      @FrancT- 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@unclebounce1495 SJW trash? Rings of Power is SJW trash, the Lord of the rings trilogy isn't.

    • @moistmike4150
      @moistmike4150 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@FrancT- THIS!

  • @AN-sm9ju
    @AN-sm9ju หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Rip King

  • @varelion
    @varelion ปีที่แล้ว +16

    So, it was not only the sudden impact of the Rohirrim with their thundering horns that broke the fighting spirit of the besieging ork army. It was the unexpected predominance of light which meant that Sauron's power had been overcome. The protective shield of darkness for the orks that also demoralized men was gone.
    This reminds me of the battle of Helm's Deep where the morale of the orks was mainly crushed not by the Rohirrim but by the unexpected appearance of a whole moving forest of angry huorns.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very cool 😊

    • @BM-wf9uf
      @BM-wf9uf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The subtle work of the Valar at play...

    • @varelion
      @varelion 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@BM-wf9uf It's also the reward for the endless struggle of the good side. Team Aragorn with Legolas and Gimli dared to march to the Army of the Dead and called them for aid. After that the three, although completely exhausted gathered fighters from the coast, sailed inland and attacked the ork army from behind. That's where the light came from.
      Merry and Pippin managed to persuade the Ents to play an active role in the war which resulted in the change in the Helm's Klamm battle and in the conquest of Isengart. Also, their struggle paid off very well.

  • @wren7195
    @wren7195 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Sh!t.
    A man who went to war, saw brothers die, evil blossomed with impunity from the blood spilled on every field.
    This man lived. Survived. Not only endured the horrors that sought to claim his body and flesh but also his sanity and soul...
    ...this man...
    ...wrote.
    A story. The story of man. The story of good, and of heart. A story that no matter how many cultures over the vast pages of history scrawl THEIR story it's never lost, never forgotten.
    Of love. Of sacrifice. Of greed. Of anger. Of self. Of selflessness. Of the hero. Not just the great vanquisher, the one who could flick dragons from off his mighty nose. No.
    The one who stopped himself. Who let self die. Who chose to sacrifice, so that others might live to ask the questions.
    No matter the where or when, mankind seems to always need to write down, tell, and sing these same stories.
    ......why do you think that is?

  • @lionstigersbearsohmyanimal6741
    @lionstigersbearsohmyanimal6741 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    This man was there and fought. He won

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Truth

    • @Smitty-hr2mg
      @Smitty-hr2mg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He lived one hell of a life. He was an officer in WWI. He saw rank upon rank of brave young men going to war. He saw death and slaughter the likes of which most men can never imagine. He went off to war with His closest friends, and came back alone. This is what you get when you combine Talent with hard work, love, and experience.

  • @christopheralvarado6284
    @christopheralvarado6284 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    This scene man… my heart

  • @greensmurf221
    @greensmurf221 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    There is a reason why LotR is timeless.

  • @aexndr387
    @aexndr387 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Fey he seemed, for the battle fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Chills

    • @aexndr387
      @aexndr387 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Pop_Culture_Podcast you replied quicker than my crush 🥺👉👈

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@aexndr387 here I am again

    • @jeph630
      @jeph630 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      it's so goddamn good

  • @gamiezion
    @gamiezion 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    i will never in my lifetime be able to explain how much this means to me

  • @Karthos1000
    @Karthos1000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Tolkien had a way with words. I love the movies, but the books will always be my first love... I need to read them again.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I used to reread them once a year…it’s been a while tho. I may need to do that again

  • @jeph630
    @jeph630 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    every time I see it, I click it. And every time I click it, I say "jesus fucking christ it's so good".

  • @SuperSecretSunshine
    @SuperSecretSunshine 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Tolkien reads prose like poetry, it's actually amazing to listen to. I'm glad this video survived.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It’s incredible. I can’t get enough

    • @vroomvroomcarnong
      @vroomvroomcarnong 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well he wrote prose like poetry too!

  • @robertchabot5625
    @robertchabot5625 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Terrific. I could see the action happening strictly through his reading. The words painted as good a picture of the event as the movie scene did.

  • @For0489
    @For0489 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The amount of passion that has gone into the books, movies, music, etc. is unparalleled

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We may never see the likes of it again. Enjoy it 😊

  • @TheKoboldHoard
    @TheKoboldHoard 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I've listened to this countless times, here and elsewhere. I always felt bad for Guthlaf, the banner bearer. His horn had been borrowed by Theoden and so when "all the horns of the host were lifted in music", I believed Guthlaf had no horn to blow and join in. Silly me, I now think, because of course a banner bearer for King Theoden has more horns at hand! I like to think that once it "burst asunder", Guthlaf shrugs and grabs his spare.

    • @aidanwotherspoon905
      @aidanwotherspoon905 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Rule one for all heralds: one is none; two is one. I’m sure Guthlaf had a backup

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Lol. Poor Guthlaf. I’m sure he came prepared tho!

  • @schawdaya
    @schawdaya 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    This is why the internet was invented folks. The cumulative creativity of society has the decision to make things like this happen or absolute poison. But this video defy's all the shit we all worry about society creating. This is why Tolkien is my favorite author and my biggest inspiriation. This is what people are meant for. I never knew my grandparents but I feel close to John from reading all his works. I hope you all have a good day.
    Edit: and yes i did drink typing this and this is what i decided to do with it

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Amen, my friend. Cheers from CT!

    • @STFP88
      @STFP88 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      THats very well though off what you just said!!!! I wish we could get more movies like this some day from the books! Cause these movies are still the greatest ever made!

  • @khfan4life365
    @khfan4life365 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    When I got finished reading LOTR, it was like I was in a trance. My mind was in Tolkien's world while my body was still in the normal physical world here. Honestly, other books are paltry compared to Tolkien's works. You can tell it was a labor of love to him. I'm fortunate to live in a time where the books and the movies exist.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well said!

    • @jaysnowden7136
      @jaysnowden7136 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had the misfortune of the Lord of the Rings being one of the first works of literature I ever read for pleasure, and now nothing ever gets in the same ballpark, and it's disappointing. At least I have the Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin to enjoy.

  • @chrislittle8826
    @chrislittle8826 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    White horse upon a field of green but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house but he was ever before them. Maaaannn I love how he read that part...this whole moment gives me chills & brings tears to my eyes...thank you Tolkien!

  • @jeph630
    @jeph630 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    it's just too good, I keep coming back

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can’t stop won’t stop…please share!

  • @genlob
    @genlob 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I imagine it being recited in a fire lit Mead Hall, the audience spellbound like we are. The rhythm of the words as the horses start to gallop is intoxicating. Impossible not to be moved by it.

  • @helios6379
    @helios6379 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thank you, thank you! I was saddened to see that video gone. I wish I could help with crediting the original uploaders. Meanwhile, I thank you once again!

  • @kuniedakakashi4626
    @kuniedakakashi4626 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    I remember when I got into my first day in college and meeting people. l Would ask them for what they liked and when l said that l loved Tolkien's work, MANY would say that they disliked LOTR because and l quote "It's a harry potter rip off"
    Imagine my reaction

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Unbelievable. People have no idea

    • @boomertunes9924
      @boomertunes9924 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Harry Potter is just occult trash. Tolkien is leagues above it. Also, those people are stupid if they think it's a "rip off" of Harry Potter. Tolkien died well before the first Potter book was ever published.

    • @firstname9954
      @firstname9954 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      i love harry potter,i grew up with harry potter, and the art of harry potter progressing more serious from book 1 to book 7 as the target audience grows its quite creative,enjoyable and may i say unique art
      but comparing harry potter with lord of the rings,is like comparing Beyonce's songs with Motzard.yeah beyonce';s songs are good no doubt,but it doesn't hold a handle at the feet of Motzard
      same harry potter doesn't hold a candle at the feets of lord of the rings

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@firstname9954 well said!

    • @Josuegurrola
      @Josuegurrola 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Imagine my reaction, I charged at them like a Rohirrim into the horde of orcs in the Pelennor

  • @gabrielbarrera3835
    @gabrielbarrera3835 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers RAN LIKE NEW FIRE IN HIS VEINS

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Chills

    • @schawdaya
      @schawdaya 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      He came out of world war I, you can tell Tolkien witnessed something like this in person

    • @Crafty_Spirit
      @Crafty_Spirit 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@schawdaya Battle Fury in the trenches of France in World War I? Are you joking?

    • @LK041
      @LK041 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Crafty_Spirit There was lots of battle fury in trench assaults, and still is. Sometimes it pays off. cf. Donbass.

    • @scottwallace5239
      @scottwallace5239 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@Crafty_Spirit why wouldn't there be battle fury? It was war, you'd need fury to charge headfirst into no man's land

  • @OG_G4m3r
    @OG_G4m3r 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    This was my favorite scene in the entire trilogy. Always makes me tear up 🥹🥺🥹

  • @chily3519
    @chily3519 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Bro, I got chills from hearing Tolkien read this scene

    • @Smitty-hr2mg
      @Smitty-hr2mg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wish Tolkien had lived to see these movies. I think he would've been proud. Hollywood will never reach the heights established by these films ever again. A book written with love and passion, translated to the screen with love and passion, and embraced by the whole world.... The current generation just has... Rings of Power.... Eww.

  • @galandirofrivendell4740
    @galandirofrivendell4740 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Bless us and splash us, my precious!" I own a couple of vinyl LPS of Tolkien reading from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. His recitation of Riddles in the Dark is especially entertaining. I haven't listened to these recordings in years. Thank you for refreshing my memory of hearing the author himself reading excerpts from his magnum opus.

  • @littlebrookreader949
    @littlebrookreader949 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    His voice is in his words. Wonderful to hear him.

  • @shedaskimbah2560
    @shedaskimbah2560 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    A sword day
    A red day
    And the sun rises
    What genius!

    • @okaloperdis7187
      @okaloperdis7187 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      *ere the sun rises . ( Ere means before)

    • @TJStocker
      @TJStocker 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@okaloperdis7187 thank you, I've always wondered what that meant!

    • @Aeon135
      @Aeon135 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Tolkien was likely paraphrasing the Norse saga Voluspa here:
      “Axe-time, sword-time,
      shields are splintered.
      Wind-time, wolf-time,
      ere the world falls.”
      (This part of the saga is describing Ragnarok - the world’s ending)

  • @lordoftherings999
    @lordoftherings999 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    THANK YOU 1000000000 for bringing back this immense video, an absolute masterpiece of Tolkien’s godlike skill ❤❤❤

  • @finnclougherty453
    @finnclougherty453 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    RIDE NOW! RIDE NOW! RIDE TO GONDOR!
    God I love Theoden

  • @user-wk9hw4hb3z
    @user-wk9hw4hb3z 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    The man sounds like a sports commentator. LEGEND!!!

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Haha. Facts

    • @gamiezion
      @gamiezion 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      no no, sports casters sound like him

    • @noctusfury6918
      @noctusfury6918 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sports commentators could only DREAM of sounding like him. 😂

  • @mattklatt6898
    @mattklatt6898 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I would love to know what Tolkien imagined the Rohirrim singing to sound like

  • @IronDuke_xX
    @IronDuke_xX 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Hearing this brought tears to my eyes

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Same man. Same

    • @byronmoore5273
      @byronmoore5273 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Where is the horse and the rider,
      Where is the horn that was blowing,
      They have past like rain on the mountains
      Like wind in the meadow,
      The days of gone down in the west behind the hills into darkness...

    • @IronDuke_xX
      @IronDuke_xX 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@byronmoore5273 majestic

    • @SirHaviland
      @SirHaviland 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I read this many times, and I saw the movie at least three times... still getting a lump in my throat every time this scene comes up...

  • @cashwalk7253
    @cashwalk7253 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I almost cried-this is beautiful. 🥹

    • @michaelkay4464
      @michaelkay4464 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yeah same... uhhh "almost"... :P

    • @stevetamacc
      @stevetamacc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Something got in my eyes!

  • @emperorpalpatine8953
    @emperorpalpatine8953 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Hail, King of the Mark!

  • @RazorIndustries
    @RazorIndustries 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Such raw power in his words, it's impossible not to be overcome by it. And why not, when not all tears are an evil. 🥲

  • @billholder1330
    @billholder1330 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Wow. Made me cry.

  • @random22026
    @random22026 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    1:42 '...its topmost tower like a glittering needle..' Like an obelisk.
    Absolutely brilliant reading: thank you for this! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You are very welcome! Pls share 😊

    • @random22026
      @random22026 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Delighted to do so! 😔😔💘💘@@Pop_Culture_Podcast

    • @Rizu-kc3ze
      @Rizu-kc3ze 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What was that anyway? Two trees from the land of Valar?

    • @random22026
      @random22026 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was something Theoden saw as he sat astride his horse, poised for battle, looking at the City before him. Obelisks have been described as 'needles' in the past--however, in this case, it is the topmost tower emerging from the City skyline, that Tolkien is describing. We can only guess at which tower he is referring to...
      An amazing reading! 🤗🥰@@Rizu-kc3ze

  • @johnord684
    @johnord684 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    RIP Bernard,Hail Theoden king!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @brickgarden
    @brickgarden 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    What I wouldn't give to have the audiobooks narrated by Tolkien himself.

    • @Pop_Culture_Podcast
      @Pop_Culture_Podcast  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We can dream

    • @Mode-Selektor
      @Mode-Selektor 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I know it's not the same but I bet AI could replicate it. It wouldn't know how he would emphasize and read though.