In this episode I indulge in a little post-vaccination comfort reading! Many thanks to all of you have occasionally popped over and encouraged me by buying me a coffee from this page www.buymeacoff...
I am an old man and I've read the "Hobbit" now these many times. I have never enjoyed a passage of it more than when you did the voices of the Trolls. Thank you good sir.
I feel so lucky to have been recommended your channel by a friend. Your videos have given me moments of comfort in what are very much troubling times. Thank you!
Wonderful. That Hobbit reading took me back to 1959, when my English teacher read the book to our class. He had been one of Tolkien's students at Oxford. Happy days.
My dad was never close with me. In fact, he was often downright cruel. I have very few memories with my father because we didn't do much together. However, he read this book for me when I was a boy, and it will be a memory that I will hold dear forever. He wasn't perfect, but for some reason he wanted to read me that book, and for me, that's enough. I'll be grateful to him for that forever. Much love from the US.
Thank you for the delightful dip into Tolkien. I just read The Hobbit for the umpteenth time a few weeks ago; it never gets old. “Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known.”
My nanny, introduced me to The Hobbit with the 1977 animated movie back in 2007 when I was 4 or 5. The world, soundscape, beautiful illustrations and animations struck me so incredibly I still have screen captures branded in my brain. Since then, Hobbits have been synonymous with home for me as well. My nanny passed a few years back and nothing brings her back like Tolkien’s words. Roads go Ever, ever on❤
Hi Malcolm - it is always a pleasure to hear you reading - here on the continent there are only a few native speakers read such beautiful books and poems in public. So it is good to have a place where I can hear it. I also love Tolkien - I bought the books when I spent my holidays in England back in the 70s, where this was like every day literature. Please more of it - Thank You.
I do so enjoy your videos, as I have re-discovered good pipes/ tobacco’s. Along with the discussion of books and stories I have not thought of in quite some time ! Thank you from the Hills of Kentucky ( Can-tu-kee)
Every weekend I retreat to my man cave, fill one of my Peterson pipes, sit back and listen to at least one of you're posts. Thank you for the escape from everyday life.
Year 1 at secondary and we were read The Hobbit and a whole new world opened up. There was more in the world than Enid Blyton to read, SO MUCH MORE! Thanks - a lovely reading especially the Yorkshire accent.
Thank you Malcolm, for sharing your delightful version of the Hobbit. Here's the beginning of a blessing by John O Donohue that reminds me of the friendship that is seen in Tolkien's books, Many blessings to you Malcolm! May you be blessed with good friends. May you learn to be a good friend to yourself. May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.
As a young lad just starting to read Tolkien, these videos are lovely to watch, and i love listening to you read. Enjoyed reading along with you, and hearing about how your father read the books!
It's the punch line that brings it all home "..even those with one head." It was only many years after reading this book that I began to understand the truth revealed in different accents and dialects. America has them too - not just the Northeast, South, Appalachia, Midwest and West, but even between San Diego and Las Angeles, Baltimore and New York. They reflect not simply pronunciation, but a different understanding of this world. I don't know that I would have grasped this if I hadn't read The Hobbit at an early age.
You have for many restored the love of books Surrounded by them in thousands...or so it looks Adorned like in a garden full of floral bowers There you are encircled by them in avalanching towers The guardian of all those rich and ancient tomes Those fortunate books, that found with you....their homes! 😉
Thank you for this Malcolm. Having my life so ingrained by screens and social media, i find myself at peace watching your videos. You have truly inspired me to read more, see more and become more as a result. I look forward to all of your future content and will enjoy them readily.
Absolutely wonderful, your videos have quickly become a highlight in my week. I remember as a young boy my teacher reading us the Hobbit I remember we read the first 2 chapters and then she stopped and I was so overcome with wonder I went home and read the whole book.
My copies were lost long ago, so for my birthday I have asked my wife to get me a new set - illustrated like yours and I very much look forward to reading both the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings over the summer. I used to enjoy trips to Sarehole Mill as a youngster, it was only 7 miles from my home, as I was fascinated by Tolkien's works from a very early age. Seems a long time ago now! I hope you are feeling chipper again soon Malcolm 😊
Everything about this video is lovely. I read "The Hobbit" for the first time last summer but feel I need to read it again, more slowly. Thank you; this is a gift.
I seem still to remember the day when I walked into the Coos Bay, Oregon, public library, turned right to the adult fiction section though I was 11 years old (late 1966, I think), and saw a display of Tolkien paperbacks and, I think, a big Middle-earth map poster. I borrowed The Hobbit: more about trolls! Tolkien said that, as a boy, he desired dragons with a fierce desire. For me it was trolls (like those of Werenskiold and Kittelsen in the classic Asbjornsen and Moe collection of Norwegian folk tales). Now here was more about trolls! A great day in my personal history.
Greetings Malcolm, My Swedish born Grandfather (who spoke perfect American english) used to read to us from the Hobbit, he reverted to the heavy Swedish accented English of his youth at this passage (and others). My sister and I loved it!! Trolls were extremely central to his early farm life in Sweden.
The only time I heard the Hobbit read was on a tape recorder at school and I hated it. (Although have watched the film's again and again). What a revelation! Fantastic storytelling - both you and Tolkien 😀
Well, that eliminates any doubt I had about purchasing a Peterson Churchwarden as my next pipe. I had been eyeing them recently, with Gandalf in mind, and clicked on this video for The Hobbit, not knowing about your channel. I've also found a new channel to follow as well! Cheers!
If I could have a wish, it would be that I was very young and rather small, sitting on the floor of an ancient country cottage beside a roaring log fire. Eating hot buttered toast, while this lovely man read aloud 'The Hobbit. That is what 'home' should mean.
Dear professor I love your videos and your amazing library is just what one dreams of. Your pipe collection, sentimental rustic historic meaningful. When you smoke your pipe it's just so amazing. I love it What do you smoke just out of intrest ?
Thank you My love for poetry started with John Keats back in 1999 and I was totally taken aback by the romantics. So you my dear professor are amazing and I csn relate to your videos very well Thank you - maybe next time just say which blend your smoking il join you too hahahahahaha
Wonderful video! We're have a rainy day here in West Tennessee. I actually just came inside from a morning pipe on the porch while reading Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Just what I needed after that! Also, I hope you get to feeling better soon! I had my second vaccine a few weeks back and I felt like I had the flu for about a day and a half.
Thanks! I seem to be perfectly ok now, and all the better because a new Peterson Sherlock Holmes 'Squire' has just arrived in the post and I'm about to light it up!
Thank you, Malcolm. Lovely grub (and just what the doctor {would have} ordered)! Please say thank you, also, to whoever is behind the camera (your wife?), serving us unseen every time. They also serve who only stand and film!
brilliant video Malcolm enjoyed and funny enough accents it always happens with my mum she's from Bradford Yorkshire originally and we still have family there but she's has live in Lancaster Lancashire for much of her adult life and when family come over from Bradford her accent comes out so I know what you mean its weird hove it happens on a turn of a coin
Andy Serkis narrates The Hobbit and all three rings books in audiobook format, and he does the same exact accent, voice, and cadence for the trolls. I could lose myself in this world forever.
I know exactly what you mean, by your father talking in his native Yorkshire accent. As a Londoner, my go to accent for the trolls, was Cockney! Unfortuneately, I didn't have the sort of father you had.😢 My introduction to the Master of Imagination, Tolkien, was via my older sister Marilyn.😊
It's interesting how the first copy of The Hobbit you experience makes a significant imprint in your mind. My father read aloud from a mass market paperback copy which had been sitting around the house for years. The cover had an amazing Ted Nasmith painting of Gandalf walking up to bag end, and I remember thinking to myself - What is a Hobbit? What is in that cool hill-house? The answers didn't disappoint!
The most astonishing thing to me in these videos is that he wakes in the morning, puts on slacks, shoes, a button down shirt, and a tie from time to time and a vest to sit at home to read and smoke a pipe in a room…
Sir with all respect, I will like to hear the story reeded The Legend of the Holy grail and the Parsifal ! This story for my is very inspirational. Some how is very challenging
In a world where many walk willingly through a wide gate, following patterns set forth by the deceitful workers, transforming themselves into angels of light, There are few with eyes to see willing to walk, set apart through which the narrow gate requires.
I recommend the Queen of Denmarks illustrations to this. Check them out. When she is artistic she calls herself Ingahild Grathmer. Tolkien liked her work.
The Latin translation of The Hobbit is a joy to read - even with rusty Latin like mine - since the original is etched in mind, like a parallel version.
What do you make of Jeremy Taylor? There is next to nothing on him on TH-cam although a founder of Anglicanism and of whom Coleridge ranked along with Shakespeare, Bacon and Milton as one of the four great writers in English. Would Taylor recognise modern Anglicanism? Why is he an unknown today? Is he still among the ' great'?
I believe this gentleman, of all the people I have encountered in my life, most embodies the extraordinary and wonderful qualities of a true hobbit!
I am an old man and I've read the "Hobbit" now these many times. I have never enjoyed a passage of it more than when you did the voices of the Trolls. Thank you good sir.
I feel so lucky to have been recommended your channel by a friend. Your videos have given me moments of comfort in what are very much troubling times. Thank you!
Welcome aboard!
I just finished the hobbit, I’m 26 but felt like a kid while reding it ❤ lovely book for my future kids
Wonderful. That Hobbit reading took me back to 1959, when my English teacher read the book to our class. He had been one of Tolkien's students at Oxford. Happy days.
My dad was never close with me. In fact, he was often downright cruel. I have very few memories with my father because we didn't do much together. However, he read this book for me when I was a boy, and it will be a memory that I will hold dear forever. He wasn't perfect, but for some reason he wanted to read me that book, and for me, that's enough. I'll be grateful to him for that forever.
Much love from the US.
I'm glad to have brought back the memory of something good from a troubled relationship
Sounds like your dad was Denethor and you were Faramir.
This finally set my eyeballs straight. I always read 'roasting mutton', not toasting. I had to go check. A half century of misreads. Weird.
Thank you for the delightful dip into Tolkien. I just read The Hobbit for the umpteenth time a few weeks ago; it never gets old.
“Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.”
A very beautiful post Shelby. Many thanks.
My nanny, introduced me to The Hobbit with the 1977 animated movie back in 2007 when I was 4 or 5. The world, soundscape, beautiful illustrations and animations struck me so incredibly I still have screen captures branded in my brain. Since then, Hobbits have been synonymous with home for me as well. My nanny passed a few years back and nothing brings her back like Tolkien’s words. Roads go Ever, ever on❤
Hi Malcolm - it is always a pleasure to hear you reading - here on the continent there are only a few native speakers read such beautiful books and poems in public. So it is good to have a place where I can hear it.
I also love Tolkien - I bought the books when I spent my holidays in England back in the 70s, where this was like every day literature.
Please more of it - Thank You.
Many thanks! yes there's more Tolkien in the pipeline!
Wonderful, what fun 😂. The Hobbit was the first book that got my son reading, love it.
It's so good!
What a joy! "There really is magic in the world" - I couldn't agree more! Thank you, Malcolm.
That book is life changing. I love your interpretation of the trolls. Well read!
Oh, i wish i could click the Like button more than once - this is just wonderful. Thank you for reading in your Yorkshire accent 😀
I do so enjoy your videos, as I have re-discovered good pipes/ tobacco’s. Along with the discussion of books and stories I have not thought of in quite some time ! Thank you from the Hills of Kentucky ( Can-tu-kee)
That was fun! Loved the Yorkshire accent!
Every weekend I retreat to my man cave, fill one of my Peterson pipes, sit back and listen to at least one of you're posts. Thank you for the escape from everyday life.
I love this! I have just sat and listened to it all over again, a month later. My only regret is that I cannot give it another 'like'!
Year 1 at secondary and we were read The Hobbit and a whole new world opened up. There was more in the world than Enid Blyton to read, SO MUCH MORE! Thanks - a lovely reading especially the Yorkshire accent.
thanks!
Thank you Malcolm, for sharing your delightful version of the Hobbit. Here's the beginning of a blessing by John O Donohue that reminds me of the friendship that is seen in Tolkien's books, Many blessings to you Malcolm!
May you be blessed with good friends.
May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.
May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where
there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.
Many thanks!
As a young lad just starting to read Tolkien, these videos are lovely to watch, and i love listening to you read. Enjoyed reading along with you, and hearing about how your father read the books!
It's the punch line that brings it all home "..even those with one head."
It was only many years after reading this book that I began to understand the truth revealed in different accents and dialects. America has them too - not just the Northeast, South, Appalachia, Midwest and West, but even between San Diego and Las Angeles, Baltimore and New York. They reflect not simply pronunciation, but a different understanding of this world. I don't know that I would have grasped this if I hadn't read The Hobbit at an early age.
Another great and wholesome video Malcolm! Thank you for your positive light!
I love to visit, if only for a wee bit. Takes me back to a time far gone. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it
I’m sat listening to you while watching the hobbit and it fits so perfectly 😀
You have for many restored the love of books
Surrounded by them in thousands...or so it looks
Adorned like in a garden full of floral bowers
There you are encircled by them in avalanching towers
The guardian of all those rich and ancient tomes
Those fortunate books, that found with you....their homes! 😉
And if my books are fortunate, than so am I
Receiving such a finely rhymed reply!
@@MalcolmGuitespell 😊😄😁😊😊
Fantasic memories, wonderful to here. And yes, there is plenty of magic hidden between the covers of The Hobbit….
Oh I have that pipe! Peterson churchwarden Dublin, mine is sandblasted black finish. It is the most beautiful pipe i have by far, to me.
Thank you for this Malcolm. Having my life so ingrained by screens and social media, i find myself at peace watching your videos. You have truly inspired me to read more, see more and become more as a result. I look forward to all of your future content and will enjoy them readily.
thanks, so glad these spells have been helpful
Absolutely wonderful, your videos have quickly become a highlight in my week. I remember as a young boy my teacher reading us the Hobbit I remember we read the first 2 chapters and then she stopped and I was so overcome with wonder I went home and read the whole book.
Wonderful!
My copies were lost long ago, so for my birthday I have asked my wife to get me a new set - illustrated like yours and I very much look forward to reading both the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings over the summer. I used to enjoy trips to Sarehole Mill as a youngster, it was only 7 miles from my home, as I was fascinated by Tolkien's works from a very early age. Seems a long time ago now! I hope you are feeling chipper again soon Malcolm 😊
Great to hear!
I get such a warm feeling every time I hear or read the opening passage of the Hobbit. ☺️
Everything about this video is lovely. I read "The Hobbit" for the first time last summer but feel I need to read it again, more slowly. Thank you; this is a gift.
It's so good!
I seem still to remember the day when I walked into the Coos Bay, Oregon, public library, turned right to the adult fiction section though I was 11 years old (late 1966, I think), and saw a display of Tolkien paperbacks and, I think, a big Middle-earth map poster. I borrowed The Hobbit: more about trolls! Tolkien said that, as a boy, he desired dragons with a fierce desire. For me it was trolls (like those of Werenskiold and Kittelsen in the classic Asbjornsen and Moe collection of Norwegian folk tales). Now here was more about trolls! A great day in my personal history.
Thanks Dale, glad I picked the right passage for you!
A hobbit would have never jabbed themselves with that experimental risky business. I'm glad you survived, however, and that I have found this channel.
Watching this on my own day after the second jab and not feeling the best but thankful nonetheless. Thanks for sharing this joy with us, Malcolm!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I truly enjoy listening to you read and hope you continue reading your favorite literature.
U are a living character of the Tolkien books!!!👍🌞🏔️🍁🌲🧔⚔️
Greetings Malcolm, My Swedish born Grandfather (who spoke perfect American english) used to read to us from the Hobbit, he reverted to the heavy Swedish accented English of his youth at this passage (and others). My sister and I loved it!! Trolls were extremely central to his early farm life in Sweden.
Wonderful! Swedish is I'm sure a much more authentic accent for trolls!
The only time I heard the Hobbit read was on a tape recorder at school and I hated it. (Although have watched the film's again and again). What a revelation! Fantastic storytelling - both you and Tolkien 😀
thanks!
Great acoustics to boot! 🥾
Well, that eliminates any doubt I had about purchasing a Peterson Churchwarden as my next pipe. I had been eyeing them recently, with Gandalf in mind, and clicked on this video for The Hobbit, not knowing about your channel. I've also found a new channel to follow as well! Cheers!
welcome aboard
I really love your channel. It has been an exciting getaway during these times.
Glad you enjoy it!
Great video enjoyed it thanks
If I could have a wish, it would be that I was very young and rather small, sitting on the floor of an ancient country cottage beside a roaring log fire. Eating hot buttered toast, while this lovely man read aloud 'The Hobbit. That is what 'home' should mean.
Dear professor
I love your videos and your amazing library is just what one dreams of.
Your pipe collection, sentimental rustic historic meaningful.
When you smoke your pipe it's just so amazing. I love it
What do you smoke just out of intrest ?
Thanks.This was Kendal Black Cherry but I often smoke various Peterson mixes
Thank you
My love for poetry started with John Keats back in 1999 and I was totally taken aback by the romantics. So you my dear professor are amazing and I csn relate to your videos very well
Thank you - maybe next time just say which blend your smoking il join you too hahahahahaha
@@MalcolmGuitespell Just so you don't partake of Kendal Black Drop like Coleridge!
Excellent Malcolm, thankyou x x
Without The Hobbit, my childhood would have not been the same. Thank you for this great video and the chat.
Glad you enjoyed it
Had to rewind for the smoke ring from the pipe at 3:06, magic!
there's always magic in the air with Tolkien!
Lovely, thank you for sharing.
Wonderful video! We're have a rainy day here in West Tennessee. I actually just came inside from a morning pipe on the porch while reading Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Just what I needed after that! Also, I hope you get to feeling better soon! I had my second vaccine a few weeks back and I felt like I had the flu for about a day and a half.
Thanks! I seem to be perfectly ok now, and all the better because a new Peterson Sherlock Holmes 'Squire' has just arrived in the post and I'm about to light it up!
Thank you, Malcolm. Lovely grub (and just what the doctor {would have} ordered)!
Please say thank you, also, to whoever is behind the camera (your wife?), serving us unseen every time. They also serve who only stand and film!
indeed, I'll give her your thanks!
The Hobbit. The book is just a joy to read. It's a really fun story; the kind that brings you back down to earth.
Wonderful, as always.
Thanks for listening
HaHa love the accent Malcolm. As a Yorkshireman i can honestly say that was very good ... Almost Barnsleyesque!
now that is praise indeed!
So we'll done Malcolm.Thank you.
brilliant video Malcolm enjoyed and funny enough accents it always happens with my mum she's from Bradford Yorkshire originally and we still have family there but she's has live in Lancaster Lancashire for much of her adult life and when family come over from Bradford her accent comes out so I know what you mean its weird hove it happens on a turn of a coin
yes indeed, and its always amazing to here the change in your parent's familiar voice
Andy Serkis narrates The Hobbit and all three rings books in audiobook format, and he does the same exact accent, voice, and cadence for the trolls. I could lose myself in this world forever.
Have you heard of BlueFax's The Hobbit soundscape?
I wish you could read us the whole book. You really do have the voice for it!
He really does, he sounds a bit like Bilbo from the movies.
I know, I know, Bilbo sounds like him.
Loved the reading.
thanks!
Thank you. I enjoyed that.
I know exactly what you mean, by your father talking in his native Yorkshire accent. As a Londoner, my go to accent for the trolls, was Cockney! Unfortuneately, I didn't have the sort of father you had.😢 My introduction to the Master of Imagination, Tolkien, was via my older sister Marilyn.😊
Interesting!
It's interesting how the first copy of The Hobbit you experience makes a significant imprint in your mind. My father read aloud from a mass market paperback copy which had been sitting around the house for years. The cover had an amazing Ted Nasmith painting of Gandalf walking up to bag end, and I remember thinking to myself - What is a Hobbit? What is in that cool hill-house? The answers didn't disappoint!
indeed! we can never forget those early books!
The most astonishing thing to me in these videos is that he wakes in the morning, puts on slacks, shoes, a button down shirt, and a tie from time to time and a vest to sit at home to read and smoke a pipe in a room…
Another great video. Be well my friend. Greetings from Arkansas.
Thanks, you too!
Thanks for the post. I am recovering from my jab as I view this. You are a tougher man than I am. Best wishes
Glad to help
Such fun to hear your voices!
thanks!
Very late to the party I know but just wanted to say, as a proud Yorkshireman, I approve.
I’d pay good money to have you read the Hobbit to me and my 2 sons.
Sir with all respect, I will like to hear the story reeded The Legend of the Holy grail and the Parsifal ! This story for my is very inspirational. Some how is very challenging
In a world where many walk willingly through a wide gate,
following patterns set forth by the deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into angels of light,
There are few with eyes to see willing to walk,
set apart through which the narrow gate requires.
I recommend the Queen of Denmarks illustrations to this. Check them out. When she is artistic she calls herself Ingahild Grathmer. Tolkien liked her work.
Keep it alive and lively ❤
Enjoying the visit with you.
But NO “jab” for me.
Evenso, I hope you remain healthy and well.
The Latin translation of The Hobbit is a joy to read - even with rusty Latin like mine - since the original is etched in mind, like a parallel version.
wonderful! My dad liked the Latin version too!
Aye up lad! Thankyou Malcolm :)
Have you ever been to hobbiton what a marvellous place it is
A legacy, a lifestyle.
Love you man
Please read more of the Hobbit to us! Some of us didn't get Hobbit for bedtime as children!
If I had the money, I would build my own Hobbit Hole.
I love the books and i love the movies and i would love to know your verdict of the movies?
I READ THE HOBBIT IN PERSIAN WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD. TOLKIEN BOOKS REMIND ME OF PERSIAN MYTHOLOGY.......
that's fascinating. I'm glad it was translated into Persian!
Have you ever visited ‘Hobbiton’ in MataMata, New Zealand?
not yet. I was supposed to go there last September as part of a lecturing and poetry reading tour but it got cancelled by Covid.
@@MalcolmGuitespell that’s a shame, I hope to go at the end of this year.
Anybody knows which version of the Hobbits that is?
Sooo…one more chapter, please? 😊😂
Tolkien was one of the five most influential writers of my youth
and mine!
! Thank you :)
You're welcome!
Didn't know that. The Lord of the rings was written all those years ago. How many times the author got turned down before it got published
What alternative reading to Tolkien would you recommend, fine sir?
George MacDonald
Jab? Ouch, that hurts to hear
im just going silly. (but great vids thankyou. its me its me.)
You should make a video about Peter Jackson xD
What do you make of Jeremy Taylor? There is next to nothing on him on TH-cam although a founder of Anglicanism and of whom Coleridge ranked along with Shakespeare, Bacon and Milton as one of the four great writers in English. Would Taylor recognise modern Anglicanism? Why is he an unknown today? Is he still among the ' great'?
yes, he is still amongst the greats in my opinion and I will be reading from him soon!
Better than LOTR, its concise and full of treasure.
Hope that vaccine doesn’t give you a heart attack or blood clots.
Love that pipe!
Me too!
I do enjoy grabbing a pipe, some leaf and joining you for a bit.. 🤠
Who else is blazed out if there mind?
Brother I got to say you really should get into voice over work for audiobooks! I can listen to you read for hours!
Wow, thank you!
RIP 💉
incel