00:15 midgard 03:00 names (dwarves) 04:00 names (elven) 04:45 tree 05:00 not symbols 05:25 not symbols lol 05:45 hobbit fondness 06:00 childhood memory 06:45 childhood memory 07:40 Frodo 08:40 against odds 09:20 race 10:20 Elves 10:35 Dwarves 10:47 Men 10:55 Hobbits 11:30 longer life 11:59 love history 12:15 naming system / language 13:45 names 14:30 names start with a name 15:25 language influence 16:35 women in LOTR 17:25 reviewer lol 18:05 from hobbit to LOTR 19:10 dragons 19:30 writing LOTR & The Ring 20:01 Gollum 20:22 grey character & temptation 20:59 Sam and Gollum 22:20 reader feedback 22:45 take control 23:15 writing 24:33 maps 24:42 moons 25:05 started LOTR 25:30 lots typing, error 26:35 languages purpose 28:06 any guilt 28:47 allegory 28:53 world declining 30:03 god in LOTR 30:10 goodness 30:50 gods of men 33:22 high towers 34:11 Atlantis complex 36:08 if were the Vala 37:26 fan mails 37:40 success 38:06 theist 39:02 to be remembered

When the interviewer said that almost all the characters are portrayed as black or white, he seems to have forgotten Sam's musings in the chapter 'Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit': _He wondered what the man's name was and where he had come from; and if he was really evil at heart, or what lies and threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace--_

I love how Tolkien just dodges the Tom Bombadil question...

Today is September 2nd, 2023 and marks the 50th anniversary of the Professor's death. J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy endures today and for all time! Cheers to the Professor!

14:36 "you wouldn't much like a chap called 'Ugluk' would you". I love it lmao.

This is the first time I heard him speak. The man is just brilliant. Talking about the different races and each of their exaggerated human traits. "Well, you've got them on your hands, don't you?" I'm a writer, nothing like this man was, but what an inspiration on world and character building.

I wish he published silmarilion in his lifetime and we had interviews on it aswell. It must be fascinating to hear JRRT talk on elder days

I love this, this man, his thoughts and his world. And the interviewer does a better job then modern colleagues.

When he starts dunking on Lewis 😂 I adore both writers and thinks their little squabbles with the others’ work is hilarious

what an eloquent man

What a brilliant man. I haven’t read LOTR but I did read The Hobbit as a child. I’m going to revisit this series and get a good dose of Tolkien.

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.

Thank you very much! Great work! ❤

Thank you!

Thank you! I had such a great time hearing this interview. More hidden gems like this! :)

Excited to see this. This channel is brilliant!

Currently readin LOTR TheTwo Towers its so much detail it’s amazing

thank you

What a great ITW.... and what a great channel !

this interviewever is a major fan of the lore

26:01 - that “I havent noticed any” is so wholesome

BRILLIANT !!!

9:07

The Ents marching on Isengard is the my favorite scene of fiction in the last 200 years.

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.

The rings of power series is a abomination. The professor must be rolling in his grave. They completely lost the geist of his work. They took middle earth and mutated it into something abhorrent. It's a crime against humanity. I don't think I will ever forgive the injustice.

Finally, someone besides myself drew comparison to Dwarves and Jews!

How my God , the interviewer is so bullheaded in persisting to extract an answer that he clearly did not hear but wanted. Tolkien is so patient.