Tolkien opened a can of worms. He allowed us, as readers, to see an alternative reality. Wizards, trolls, dwarves, elves.....we read in the ethnicity of these characters. We create our own fantasy based on his imagery.
Not to mention languages and an entire history of the coming into existence of the worlds themselves (the silmarillion is essentially the bible of Arda). Also the in depth philosophies and existential aspects of life lived by those who are immortal and those who are doomed to die (men). All in all it's a believable world and a world full of stories relevant to the emotions and situations we face in our own short lived stories we call our "realities".
I’ve watched the Peter Jackson adaptations of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit prequels and I also watched the animated ones by Ralph Bakshi and the Rankin/Bass Company.
Tolkien himself was very much inspired by Arthurian legends and even made his own versions of arthurian legends ('Fall of Arthur', 'Sir Gawen and the Green Knight'). So hard to say he was "gallophobic".
I'm not sure I entirely agree with Roger Dean about the lack of visual description- there's a quite a lot, but it just tends to be ignored. Tolkien is always describing the shapes of hills, the colours of clothes, the condition of masonry etc. Read the description of Isengard from Two Towers and you'll see how many liberties Jackson took with his version.
Yeah you get the impression they fielded the 'B' team for this one. A creditable effort nonetheless. I specially like the (pre-Jackson) reconstruction of Bag End at 4:53 . I'm not sure, but this might be an actual "little person", which is great
Correction should be made on the statement made at 7:37 minutes. Sauron did not build the Tower of Dol Guldur but the Elves built it and named it Amon Lanc.
Amon Lanc was the name of the Hill there being part of the southern parts of Greenwood the Great. It was the hill on which the capitol of the Silvan Elves under Oropher in the Second Age ruled. The Elves did NOT build Dol Guldur. That was entirely constructed under the watch of Sauron as "The Necromancer". Dol Guldur was the name of a fortress. Amon Lanc was the name of a hill.
Actually Amon Lanc, and Rhosgobel, have a common origin in some remarks of Sir Walter Scott. It's pretty complicated but IMHO it is the 'Rhymer's tower' in the long footnote on the left-hand page here archive.org/details/popularrhymesofs00chamrich/page/214
King Arthur I and II were Ancient Britons, Arthur II lived in now known as South Wales, Glamorgan . The French have the only surviving knowledge as it was suppressed in Anglo Saxon History.
A fairly comprehensive documentary on Tolkien's world - or should that be worlds. There are old clips of Tolkien himself being interviewed, but he seems to mumble a lot and it's very hard to make out what he says. An unofficial doc that is surprisingly quite good. An interesting and diverse effort.
misses way too much out ,no mention of the four farthings of the shire ,of Lúne in the west,no Bree or Amon sul,the withywindle that passes by the old forest,no mention of the ettenmoors ,all this before we reach the ford then the pass into Rivendell,Crickethollow also missed,seems a vague offering of a map,where the narrator is more concerned with his computer animated map than the actual descriptions from the books.
they keep referencing tolkien writing on a blank page in a students exam booklet, in a hole in the ground etc, well where is that book ? its worth a small fortune, and how come people know of its existence ?
you know i mean no ill will in saying this, but they say brittain "didn't have a history" but if you look back far enough you fidn that before the romans, the people who lived in brittain, if i'm not mistaken where the celts, THAT is english history, after than the romans came in, sat up their ways of life, after the romans pulled out, the anglo saxons came in, yes a lot of different myths from different regions got mixed in but if you want the "brittish" or "english" myths and legends, look at celtic myth and legend, i find it hard to believe a man such as tolkien, educated and such, didn't think of the celtic myths as the english myths, i mean if your english, to anyone out their who is, i'm not trying to be offensive or anything like that, but don't you generally, trace your ancestry back to either the roman, saxon, or celtic? am i wrong in this, if so please enlighten me, sincerely, i'm not trying to be offensive, but i know tolkien wrote lotr to give the english a "mythology" but isn't the celtic myths, the english mythology? atleast that'show i always looked at it, either way, love the documentary, always a fan of tolkiens works, thanks for the upload
The statement refers to written history, of which there is very little extant. Britain has a rich past, but very little in the way of ancient history, except for what was preserved in the monasteries, which, of course, dealt mostly with liturgical history.
The Celts didn't have a written language so they didn't write anything down, they only told oral tales which is why if there were any old English folktales they never survived.
The collector's dvd edition of this is sooo cool, putting it up here was a brilliant move
I love the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings so much!
Tolkien opened a can of worms. He allowed us, as readers, to see an alternative reality. Wizards, trolls, dwarves, elves.....we read in the ethnicity of these characters. We create our own fantasy based on his imagery.
Not to mention languages and an entire history of the coming into existence of the worlds themselves (the silmarillion is essentially the bible of Arda). Also the in depth philosophies and existential aspects of life lived by those who are immortal and those who are doomed to die (men). All in all it's a believable world and a world full of stories relevant to the emotions and situations we face in our own short lived stories we call our "realities".
Thanks for uploading this! I rememer this great documentary when I was a kid. When Lynette Nusbacher was still Aryeh Nusbacher.
I’ve watched the Peter Jackson adaptations of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit prequels and I also watched the animated ones by Ralph Bakshi and the Rankin/Bass Company.
Tolkien himself was very much inspired by Arthurian legends and even made his own versions of arthurian legends ('Fall of Arthur', 'Sir Gawen and the Green Knight'). So hard to say he was "gallophobic".
the lord of the rings and the hobbit excluded, i currently own 22 books about middle earth
I own 27
@@dc3189 and I have one
I have .5
I'm not sure I entirely agree with Roger Dean about the lack of visual
description- there's a quite a lot, but it just tends to be ignored.
Tolkien is always describing the shapes of hills, the colours of
clothes, the condition of masonry etc. Read the description of Isengard
from Two Towers and you'll see how many liberties Jackson took with his
version.
Yeah you get the impression they fielded the 'B' team for this one. A creditable effort nonetheless. I specially like the (pre-Jackson) reconstruction of Bag End at 4:53 . I'm not sure, but this might be an actual "little person", which is great
A shame that little effort was taken in this to correctly present Tolkien's pronunciation of his language and names etc.
Just when will people finally understand that Bilbo IS JRR? In LOTR He said he was closest to Samwise. That pretty much tells you so much.
Fun Fact the image used at 40:06 is actually the cover art for Mel Odom's book The Rover.
I think JRR would be quite furyius about the two trilogy's movie vise .
No mention of Fr. Francis Xavier :(
Correction should be made on the statement made at 7:37 minutes. Sauron did not build the Tower of Dol Guldur but the Elves built it and named it Amon Lanc.
Amon Lanc was the name of the Hill there being part of the southern parts of Greenwood the Great. It was the hill on which the capitol of the Silvan Elves under Oropher in the Second Age ruled.
The Elves did NOT build Dol Guldur. That was entirely constructed under the watch of Sauron as "The Necromancer".
Dol Guldur was the name of a fortress.
Amon Lanc was the name of a hill.
No one built it!..it doesn't actually exist you know?
@@dc3189 Don't be a fool !
Actually Amon Lanc, and Rhosgobel, have a common origin in some remarks of Sir Walter Scott. It's pretty complicated but IMHO it is the 'Rhymer's tower' in the long footnote on the left-hand page here
archive.org/details/popularrhymesofs00chamrich/page/214
King Arthur I and II were Ancient Britons, Arthur II lived in now known as South Wales, Glamorgan . The French have the only surviving knowledge as it was suppressed in Anglo Saxon History.
A fairly comprehensive documentary on Tolkien's world - or should that be worlds. There are old clips of Tolkien himself being interviewed, but he seems to mumble a lot and it's very hard to make out what he says. An unofficial doc that is surprisingly quite good. An interesting and diverse effort.
Great writer and a hottie for a daughter - wow!
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misses way too much out ,no mention of the four farthings of the shire ,of Lúne in the west,no Bree or Amon sul,the withywindle that passes by the old forest,no mention of the ettenmoors ,all this before we reach the ford then the pass into Rivendell,Crickethollow also missed,seems a vague offering of a map,where the narrator is more concerned with his computer animated map than the actual descriptions from the books.
There is a town called Crickhollow, in the Shire. There is no 'Crickethollow'.
they keep referencing tolkien writing on a blank page in a students exam booklet, in a hole in the ground etc, well where is that book ? its worth a small fortune, and how come people know of its existence ?
It is in in the Oxford University Library, along with his other original manuscripts. No big mystery, anyone can go in and look at them.
a average man who is a willing victim to be slaughtered ? or walks into "mustard gas"? the average solider was sent to be slaughtered
their are so many mistakes in the telling of this
they keep saying three novels or books, it was one story in four parts, not three parts
WOLFROY47 Actually LOTR was written as one book. The publisher forced him to break it up. Thus the modern "trilogy" was born
Im a gallophobe also evidently.
you know i mean no ill will in saying this, but they say brittain "didn't have a history" but if you look back far enough you fidn that before the romans, the people who lived in brittain, if i'm not mistaken where the celts, THAT is english history, after than the romans came in, sat up their ways of life, after the romans pulled out, the anglo saxons came in, yes a lot of different myths from different regions got mixed in but if you want the "brittish" or "english" myths and legends, look at celtic myth and legend, i find it hard to believe a man such as tolkien, educated and such, didn't think of the celtic myths as the english myths, i mean if your english, to anyone out their who is, i'm not trying to be offensive or anything like that, but don't you generally, trace your ancestry back to either the roman, saxon, or celtic? am i wrong in this, if so please enlighten me, sincerely, i'm not trying to be offensive, but i know tolkien wrote lotr to give the english a "mythology" but isn't the celtic myths, the english mythology? atleast that'show i always looked at it, either way, love the documentary, always a fan of tolkiens works, thanks for the upload
The statement refers to written history, of which there is very little extant. Britain has a rich past, but very little in the way of ancient history, except for what was preserved in the monasteries, which, of course, dealt mostly with liturgical history.
The Celts didn't have a written language so they didn't write anything down, they only told oral tales which is why if there were any old English folktales they never survived.
Tolkien was a terrible perfectionist. I can say I too am a proud perfectionist myself.
Priscilla Tolkien is hot!
Tolkein is almost as good a story teller as I am. That's saying a lot to be near my level.
I suspect you are not worthy to shine Mr Tolkien's shoes with the oil on your nose !
Now, now a little humility goes a long way my friend. Let us not be cocky now.
Don't ever even try to tell me Tolkien wasn't on mushrooms!
he probably got them from farmer Maggot
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