I live for these videos Dr Guite, they are a window into a better world, they got me through a very difficult period of my life last year and I am eternally grateful, ps also they encouraged me to take up the beautiful art of Peterson smoking, thankyou again 😊
@@bobdubI’m very sorry for you’re loss, I feel as if the lack of poetry art and beauty in the world these days is incredibly sad and it would be a far better place with much much more
Keats for sure, as Dr. Guite notes around 12:00. One might also be reminded of Andrew Marvell's line about "Far other worlds and other seas" in connection with Earendil's voyage.
From the Hall of Fire to the Study of Fire with each puff of the pipe, the joy of story telling and richness of thought - another wonderful visit Malcolm.
I've recently been reading through a companion book to Lewis's "Abolition of Man" called "After Humanity." You can imagine the pleasant surprise I had in finding passages from Rev. Guite scattered throughout the book. Reading words from a wise man is one thing, but knowing the man who wrote them is a gift. And what a gift it is to be able to hear your musings so frequently, Malcom! God bless you!
Rivendell being an imaginative rest for the reader is such a beautiful way to describe this part of the story. I felt exactly the same when I arrived there on my reading recently.
Always a pleasure to visit the inviting, charming Dr. Guite in his cozy study... I'd be honored to do so for real. Thank you for these videos, your wonderful readings and musings. Much Love and Best Wishes from Brooklyn, NYC!
Malcolm, appreciate you very much and your videos are wonderful. To me this sounds like a psychedelic, deep meditation, or near death experience for our dear Frodo. Especially when words and concepts turn to images and lands not yet imagined, opening out before us. It matches very closely to those experiences.
Great stuff as always! Your videos are just wonderfully positive and such tributes to the power of the imagination. Keep up the good work and have a safe and restful vacation.
Hiyas Malcolm, Thank you for taking us to Rivendell with you. I joined you with a lovely bowl of Rattray's Stirling Flake, so delicious. Safe travels and we'll see you when you return from yer holiday. Serene smokes!
Malcolm, this may be a bit unorthodox for a lady but I tried pipe smoking recently, partially because of Tolkien's writings on it and partially because of you. Curiosity got to me haha. It was quite pleasant! Thank you again for another wonderful Tolkien video. I always look forward to your videos!
I’m seeing more and more females trying out pipe smoking! Glad you enjoyed it! I was always intrigued by pipe smoking and collecting and finally gave it a try around 2020 and I loved it as well! Enjoy!
The art of tobacco is not restricted to men alone. I began my journey with it through cigars a few months ago. Indeed, at this very moment, I am enjoying a delicous and mild Oliva Churchill while I listen to the delightful Mr. Guite. And I hope to see more female smokers out there. It is my hope to one day have a wife that I can sit down and share a good cigar with. Or perhaps even a pipe if it catches my fancy in the future. If anyone ever tells you that tobacco is for men alone, that is absolute hogwash.
Wow! That was exquisitely enchanting, and soothingly spellbinding - your reading is simply superb. Thanks to both of you for your generosity in time and efforts. We wish you safe travel, and a truly refreshing holiday in, like Rivendell, our favourite country 💞 lucky you! Best wishes 💙
So very, very true! Chapters 1 and 2 of Book II are so evocative and powerful. Even as a child of 11 or 12, (I turn 63 today!) I found them strangely transformative and moving. Bilbo’s earlier experience and his reaction in The Hobbit while listening to Thorin & Co. sing of their homeland very nearly foreshadows Frodo’s emotional response in the H of F. My memory of its first impact on me is visceral and real. I didn’t yet understand Lewis’s sehnsucht, but I was sharply aware of its feeling. Later in high school, seeking for kindred spirits, I talked some peers into reading LotR for their first time. I recall being so very disappointed when they found those chapters tedious: “too many names…” 😂. Such a delight now to hear them read by someone who is acquainted with the yearning and the cosmic import of it. I absolutely look forward to experiencing it again one day whilst reading your Matter of Britain. Cheers!
The personal moments of Frodo are so sympathetic and immersive, especially in the first part, and I think extremely relatable (e.g. for young people, but most people in certain moments), and also responsible for the success of the works, I think. But that can be felt with Bilbo in The Hobbit, too, to some extent, and most of Tolkien's works in some form. There is something strong, and underregarded, which ultimately saves the works even against some strong assaults (which are still in some way or other ignorant, or insensitive of this).
I would say you do amazing "work," but what I really mean of course is that you (like Tolkien) LIVE very well and the beauty and passion come out of your well-lived life. Inspirational.
Malcom I would very much like to hear you read the entirety of the hobbit and the lord of the rings. You do such an amazing job of.... I don't know how to say it but bringing it to life I suppose. Please read the books for us and I think many people will want to tune in.
I haven't watched a video in a little while. I jumped back to the latest one that I hadn't seen and your wife(?) behind the camera pans around the room at about 1.30 and i can only imagine her thoughts. "Malcolm how many books do you really need". It reminded me of a job I did one day moving somebody's library and it was a mighty job. She might've had only half of the books you have. It must've been an incredible effort to move all of your books 😆
I have a very fond and strange memory of having read this portion of the chapter my first time through the book, in the very early 2000s. It can't have taken me very long, yet my memory of it seems to exist in an hours-long haze, as if the intoxicating and chronologically ambiguous scene Tolkien describes became my own experience.
I’ve just listened to a UA-cam where I discovered you lived in Huntingdon and on the Oxmoor-I grew up on the Oxmoor and have also just been ordained. Amazing!
That's great to know. I was vicar of St. Barnabas for a while. I'm so glad to know God has called someone from the Oxmoor to be ordained. That's the way it should be.
I am working on a lesson for an upcoming Bible study group on General Revelation (ROM 1 and 2, PSALM 19). Do you have any recommendations for impactful poems that illustrate God’s glory in his creation? Thanks for any thoughts. I’ve enjoyed experiencing poetry in a more meaningful way through your channel.
Here's my response to psalm 19 from my book David's Crown: XIX Caeli enarrant In that still place where earth and heaven meet Under mysterious starlight, raise your head And gaze up at their glory: ‘the complete Consort dancing’ as one poet said Of his own words. But these are all God’s words: A shining poem, waiting to be read Afresh in every heart. Now look towards The bright’ning east, and see the splendid sun Rise and rejoice, the icon of his lord’s True light. Be joyful with him, watch him run His course, receive the gift and treasure of his light Pouring like honeyed gold till day is done, As sweet and strong as all God’s laws, as right As all his judgements and as clean and pure, All given for your growth, and your delight!
@@MalcolmGuitespell Thank you so much, that is perfect. I’m off to buy a copy now to enjoy the rest of the collection. So thankful to have you in our time. It feels like we stole you from another age and all the better for us.
Its not often i listen to someone whos read the books like me, you mention these scenes and i automatically go back to the chapeter and get excited....truly awesome 😊
I have been under the spell of Tolkien but not when I read but when the words were read to me by Phil Dragash in his excellent vocal performance of Lord of the Rings
I'm curious if you have ever read any Robert Jordan? the Wheel of Time is a long but fulfilling series, very similar to LoTR but with a lot more "small moments" if you will, I have really enjoyed the channel since discovering it and have enjoyed listening to you talk about pipes and books
Whoa, such a wonderful passage! Must go back to reread in LOR. Speaking of Silmarillion - that is actually my favorite book from Tolkien. Reading that, particularly the origin story and the listening to what you just read, I really can’t help but think the author knew more about the spirit world and the Divine than we could imagine.
are you actually inhaling when you smoke?? i never do tolikien himself never did once he said except once by accident while riding his bike down hill and breeze was agaisnt him.
I literally dont watch content like yours, i do listen to readings but theyre different. Your channel just kind of randomly popped up, and i saw you and immediately wanted good things to come to you. I genuinely cant explain it, but i subbed just so i can check in. Thats all, i hope youre doing wonderful, sir.
agian i pick my books of the lord of the ring and read you must understand my adhd does not like the idea of reading . but you see that i love to read when i'm lisseing to you it come with suck a way i can not put to word
You should do a full read-through of LOTR. Not every word, but reading excerpts with commentary, chapter by chapter, maybe for subscribers. I think that would be a great service to mankind.
I’ve been away from listening this past while but this reminds me of your wonderful discussion with Iain McGilchrist and the way in which he began and ended his 365 days of poetry with beautiful scenes and the bringing together of music and shapes and feeling and I just want to say thank you Malcolm again. I think you’re a remarkable human being. Well done Sir. God bless.
I thought I was already subscribed but found out I’m not. I find that hard to believe because I’m sure I was and was certain but wanted to make sure just to find out i actually was not.
I'd never really stopped to appreciate the utter transcendent beauty of this passage before. The way the tale of Earendil sweeps Frodo into another world, while in turn, crashing upon the coasts of our own hearts and drawing us into the tale too is like nothing I've ever read. He even uses the motifs from Earendil's story - light and seawater - to roll these three layers together. God bless Malcolm.
When you settle down and say "I think we should go back to Rivendale" is like a warm blanket
I live for these videos Dr Guite, they are a window into a better world, they got me through a very difficult period of my life last year and I am eternally grateful, ps also they encouraged me to take up the beautiful art of Peterson smoking, thankyou again 😊
Yeah. I feel you. My child killed herself 4 years ago. How would I have made it through without poetry. Thank you
@@bobdubI’m very sorry for you’re loss, I feel as if the lack of poetry art and beauty in the world these days is incredibly sad and it would be a far better place with much much more
@noisyatom2995 "your mind transfigured by high poetry" isn't he wonderful. A proper priest ❤❤ thank you. Hard times are hard
@@noisyatom2995thank you
😢@@bobdub
Malcolm + Rivendell + a smoke = Day Made! My new favorite youtube channel.
Don't forget the wee dram or pint of foamy ale...
Malcolm, every visit with you is like an actual visit to call upon Lord Elrond at Rivendell!
Thanks Mr. Malcom for your wonderful videos. They're so relaxing and have a real positive effect on my mind. Greetings from Italy
Keats for sure, as Dr. Guite notes around 12:00. One might also be reminded of Andrew Marvell's line about "Far other worlds and other seas" in connection with Earendil's voyage.
These videos have the timelessness of Rivendell... I don't know how to put into words the comfort it gives me
Best part of the day with our Word Wizard!!! Truly the best!!!
From the Hall of Fire to the Study of Fire with each puff of the pipe, the joy of story telling and richness of thought - another wonderful visit Malcolm.
Hello Malcom, Purchased my first pipe today and it was wonderful! I would love to see your pipe collection!
Welcome to this great hobby! May it bring you peace and relaxation
I've recently been reading through a companion book to Lewis's "Abolition of Man" called "After Humanity." You can imagine the pleasant surprise I had in finding passages from Rev. Guite scattered throughout the book. Reading words from a wise man is one thing, but knowing the man who wrote them is a gift. And what a gift it is to be able to hear your musings so frequently, Malcom! God bless you!
My first time watching, I shall watch again and have subscribed, what a joy to hear your commentary and love for Tolkien's words.
Welcome aboard!
Everyday is a good day when Malcolm Guite uploads. 👍 Enjoy your trip to the land of the Swiss. God go with you. 🙏🏻
Rivendell being an imaginative rest for the reader is such a beautiful way to describe this part of the story. I felt exactly the same when I arrived there on my reading recently.
These videos are the highlight of my UA-cam feed❤
I always wanted to visit the Alps in Summer. Enjoy your trip! ⛰🚠🌄
Always a pleasure to visit the inviting, charming Dr. Guite in his cozy study... I'd be honored to do so for real. Thank you for these videos, your wonderful readings and musings. Much Love and Best Wishes from Brooklyn, NYC!
Malcolm, appreciate you very much and your videos are wonderful.
To me this sounds like a psychedelic, deep meditation, or near death experience for our dear Frodo. Especially when words and concepts turn to images and lands not yet imagined, opening out before us. It matches very closely to those experiences.
Right on time 🎉
I’ll second that
I'll 3rd that.
exactly when he means to
Great stuff as always! Your videos are just wonderfully positive and such tributes to the power of the imagination. Keep up the good work and have a safe and restful vacation.
You have such an amazing and beautiful home library, and I truly appreciate your videos. Thank you, and God bless you, Malcolm 🙏
it's a cozy time with your content, thank you Malcolm. like a warm fireside chat with an old friend
Hiyas Malcolm,
Thank you for taking us to Rivendell with you. I joined you with a lovely bowl of Rattray's Stirling Flake, so delicious. Safe travels and we'll see you when you return from yer holiday.
Serene smokes!
Peace and Love from Allentown PA, Dr. Guite! You are a comforting presence in many lives.
I’m glad to see another book lover double shelving!
You, sir are truly an overall inspiration and treasure
Exactly here i am with my reading. I am suprised, how much is different compared to movies.
im so very happy that the algorithm showed me your videos as I love watching and buying books that you talk about.
these videos bring me a lot of peace, wishing you all health and happiness
My visits with you are my quiet place amidst the storms of life... thank you for this!
Overcast day here in Iowa, relaxing with my dog, great time for a video from Malcolm :D
Malcolm, this may be a bit unorthodox for a lady but I tried pipe smoking recently, partially because of Tolkien's writings on it and partially because of you. Curiosity got to me haha. It was quite pleasant! Thank you again for another wonderful Tolkien video. I always look forward to your videos!
Keep it up if you enjoy it. I know a few female pipe smokers. It’s not just for men.
I’m seeing more and more females trying out pipe smoking! Glad you enjoyed it! I was always intrigued by pipe smoking and collecting and finally gave it a try around 2020 and I loved it as well! Enjoy!
The art of tobacco is not restricted to men alone. I began my journey with it through cigars a few months ago. Indeed, at this very moment, I am enjoying a delicous and mild Oliva Churchill while I listen to the delightful Mr. Guite. And I hope to see more female smokers out there. It is my hope to one day have a wife that I can sit down and share a good cigar with. Or perhaps even a pipe if it catches my fancy in the future. If anyone ever tells you that tobacco is for men alone, that is absolute hogwash.
3:08 spot on with that impersonation
Always a pleasure to view and listen to you, sir. Enjoy your time away. Peace!
Wow! That was exquisitely enchanting, and soothingly spellbinding - your reading is simply superb. Thanks to both of you for your generosity in time and efforts. We wish you safe travel, and a truly refreshing holiday in, like Rivendell, our favourite country 💞 lucky you! Best wishes 💙
So very, very true! Chapters 1 and 2 of Book II are so evocative and powerful. Even as a child of 11 or 12, (I turn 63 today!) I found them strangely transformative and moving. Bilbo’s earlier experience and his reaction in The Hobbit while listening to Thorin & Co. sing of their homeland very nearly foreshadows Frodo’s emotional response in the H of F. My memory of its first impact on me is visceral and real. I didn’t yet understand Lewis’s sehnsucht, but I was sharply aware of its feeling. Later in high school, seeking for kindred spirits, I talked some peers into reading LotR for their first time. I recall being so very disappointed when they found those chapters tedious: “too many names…” 😂. Such a delight now to hear them read by someone who is acquainted with the yearning and the cosmic import of it. I absolutely look forward to experiencing it again one day whilst reading your Matter of Britain.
Cheers!
The personal moments of Frodo are so sympathetic and immersive, especially in the first part, and I think extremely relatable (e.g. for young people, but most people in certain moments), and also responsible for the success of the works, I think. But that can be felt with Bilbo in The Hobbit, too, to some extent, and most of Tolkien's works in some form. There is something strong, and underregarded, which ultimately saves the works even against some strong assaults (which are still in some way or other ignorant, or insensitive of this).
Enjoy you holiday good Sir!
Great reading, thanks for sharing your time with us. Always great to hear and see you.
perfect time to watch this
Thank you Mr Malcom. A true pleasure!!!!
Your off on your own little adventure. Have a great time
Lovely session, enjoyed listening along
Delightful, thank you.
I love watching these videos while dancing on my roof
That was beautiful
Lovely insight.
Happy travels.
I'm caught up in the magic of your voice.
This video is a lesson for me, thank you very much
Enjoy your holiday Malcolm.
Your videos are my hall of fire,sir
Now this is a man I can trust. Big white beard, smoking a cigar, and talking about Lord of the Rings.
Agreed, the simple life is what I long for.
Great choice of tobacco, awesome pipe.
Lovely reading.
Thank you Malcolm, enjoy the chocolate.
This is my happy place
I would say you do amazing "work," but what I really mean of course is that you (like Tolkien) LIVE very well and the beauty and passion come out of your well-lived life. Inspirational.
Malcom I would very much like to hear you read the entirety of the hobbit and the lord of the rings. You do such an amazing job of.... I don't know how to say it but bringing it to life I suppose. Please read the books for us and I think many people will want to tune in.
The presentation is like a combination of Tolkien and Jack Hargreaves, which is a good thing.😊
Malcolm, I must say, your lectures / talks very much feel like Oxford tutorials!! Please keep doing these Tolkien videos, big fan !
Bookcases full of trees, that speak through leaves ‐ leaves of grass within an iron‐pen
Rivendell- wish such halls of beauty actually were something real… 🌿
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My best book is a paperback of the fellowship from the early 60s and I cherish it dearly
I haven't watched a video in a little while. I jumped back to the latest one that I hadn't seen and your wife(?) behind the camera pans around the room at about 1.30 and i can only imagine her thoughts. "Malcolm how many books do you really need". It reminded me of a job I did one day moving somebody's library and it was a mighty job. She might've had only half of the books you have. It must've been an incredible effort to move all of your books 😆
Just exactly what I needed before night sleep 😴
I have a very fond and strange memory of having read this portion of the chapter my first time through the book, in the very early 2000s. It can't have taken me very long, yet my memory of it seems to exist in an hours-long haze, as if the intoxicating and chronologically ambiguous scene Tolkien describes became my own experience.
Thank you very much! Funny how much enjoyment comes from just a few minutes’ break, and discussion of beautiful work.
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for the generous encouragement
I really enjoy when you sit down with a book by Tolkien . I settle in with a tankard and listen. Thank you Malcom.
I’ve just listened to a UA-cam where I discovered you lived in Huntingdon and on the Oxmoor-I grew up on the Oxmoor and have also just been ordained. Amazing!
That's great to know. I was vicar of St. Barnabas for a while. I'm so glad to know God has called someone from the Oxmoor to be ordained. That's the way it should be.
I am working on a lesson for an upcoming Bible study group on General Revelation (ROM 1 and 2, PSALM 19). Do you have any recommendations for impactful poems that illustrate God’s glory in his creation? Thanks for any thoughts. I’ve enjoyed experiencing poetry in a more meaningful way through your channel.
Here's my response to psalm 19 from my book David's Crown:
XIX Caeli enarrant
In that still place where earth and heaven meet
Under mysterious starlight, raise your head
And gaze up at their glory: ‘the complete
Consort dancing’ as one poet said
Of his own words. But these are all God’s words:
A shining poem, waiting to be read
Afresh in every heart. Now look towards
The bright’ning east, and see the splendid sun
Rise and rejoice, the icon of his lord’s
True light. Be joyful with him, watch him run
His course, receive the gift and treasure of his light
Pouring like honeyed gold till day is done,
As sweet and strong as all God’s laws, as right
As all his judgements and as clean and pure,
All given for your growth, and your delight!
@@MalcolmGuitespell Thank you so much, that is perfect. I’m off to buy a copy now to enjoy the rest of the collection. So thankful to have you in our time. It feels like we stole you from another age and all the better for us.
I bought a copy of the singing bowl and with great delight
I recognised the genius of reverend malcolm Guite .
you are most kind
Its not often i listen to someone whos read the books like me, you mention these scenes and i automatically go back to the chapeter and get excited....truly awesome 😊
Bon voyage!..🚢
I have been under the spell of Tolkien but not when I read but when the words were read to me by Phil Dragash in his excellent vocal performance of Lord of the Rings
Have a safe trip. Thank you for sharing from Tolkien.
You bring out the old soul in this young man of 27.
Thank you for these videos.
I wish the Hall of Fire had made into the movie 🔥
It's all fun and games, until you have all of your lower jaw removed due to mouth cancer! Sorry, I loved smoking a pipe until I saw the results. 😢
I wish you could be the president
I'm curious if you have ever read any Robert Jordan? the Wheel of Time is a long but fulfilling series, very similar to LoTR but with a lot more "small moments" if you will, I have really enjoyed the channel since discovering it and have enjoyed listening to you talk about pipes and books
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Whoa, such a wonderful passage! Must go back to reread in LOR. Speaking of Silmarillion - that is actually my favorite book from Tolkien. Reading that, particularly the origin story and the listening to what you just read, I really can’t help but think the author knew more about the spirit world and the Divine than we could imagine.
literal legend
What are they smokin in those Elven pipes me wonders - Altered consciousness indeed.
Lovely upload ❤
are you actually inhaling when you smoke?? i never do tolikien himself never did once he said except once by accident while riding his bike down hill and breeze was agaisnt him.
Anything Rivendell or The Shire is just so comforting
Please narrate The Lord of the Rings. What an audiobook that would be. 🙏
I literally dont watch content like yours, i do listen to readings but theyre different. Your channel just kind of randomly popped up, and i saw you and immediately wanted good things to come to you. I genuinely cant explain it, but i subbed just so i can check in. Thats all, i hope youre doing wonderful, sir.
agian i pick my books of the lord of the ring and read you must understand my adhd does not like the idea of reading . but you see that i love to read when i'm lisseing to you it come with suck a way i can not put to word
Thank you good Sir ❤
You should do a full read-through of LOTR. Not every word, but reading excerpts with commentary, chapter by chapter, maybe for subscribers. I think that would be a great service to mankind.
I would love to do it, but I cant get permission!
Dr. Zaius?
Were did Tolkien get idea from I’ve just come from Switzerland 🇨🇭 and the terrain looks familiar
his description of Rivendell is meant to be based on the Lauterbrunnen valley in Switzerland which he visited when he was 19
I wish you a good holiday in Switserland, maybe you will be visiting the Lauterbrunnen tal and imagine that you are in Rivendell
Thanks. That’s exactly what we’re going to do. I might even try to do a spell in the library from there!
@@MalcolmGuitespell ah that would be wonderful
I’ve been away from listening this past while but this reminds me of your wonderful discussion with Iain McGilchrist and the way in which he began and ended his 365 days of poetry with beautiful scenes and the bringing together of music and shapes and feeling and I just want to say thank you Malcolm again. I think you’re a remarkable human being. Well done Sir. God bless.
😎💪🙏
I thought I was already subscribed but found out I’m not. I find that hard to believe because I’m sure I was and was certain but wanted to make sure just to find out i actually was not.
I'd never really stopped to appreciate the utter transcendent beauty of this passage before. The way the tale of Earendil sweeps Frodo into another world, while in turn, crashing upon the coasts of our own hearts and drawing us into the tale too is like nothing I've ever read. He even uses the motifs from Earendil's story - light and seawater - to roll these three layers together. God bless Malcolm.
Couldn't agree more!
i need to be like this man when i get older omg