I’m not so sure there will ever be another author with a mind like his. So vast and knowledgeable, so creative and experiential.
@captainahab8327
2 жыл бұрын
I like Tolkien but he is not a match for Aldous Huxley!
@leancamo800
2 жыл бұрын
Brandon Sanderson is getting closer to Tolkien
@Jellyfishhie
2 жыл бұрын
@@leancamo800 lol. Not even close.
@Vugen18
2 жыл бұрын
i feel like every generation we lose and gain something new
@MarcoDToon
2 жыл бұрын
Try reading One Piece
@LearnRunes
2 жыл бұрын
Tolkien is so humble to admit that his writing is inferior to that of the Elves.
@DeaconArael
2 жыл бұрын
That’s like if God said to Moses «woah, nice calligraphy right there, I couldn’t do that!»
@teabaganyone7830
2 жыл бұрын
It’s pretty racist to assume all elves are good writers though I for one am very triggered by this
@diollinebranderson6553
2 жыл бұрын
@@DeaconArael ikr. doesnt make sense when he said that
@puneetmishra4726
2 жыл бұрын
@@teabaganyone7830 🤣🤣🤣
@owenpook2262
2 жыл бұрын
@@diollinebranderson6553 They have much more time to work on their handwriting lol
@cbalan777
2 жыл бұрын
His Elvish handwriting is better than my English.
@brandovitali1071
2 жыл бұрын
E del mio italiano LOL
@cocoguardian6679
2 жыл бұрын
elvish is easier than English to make look good
@OracleTheRonin
2 жыл бұрын
because hes writing slowly
@estebanmartinez5453
2 жыл бұрын
To be fair, I doubt you invented English
@trinity_null
2 жыл бұрын
@@cocoguardian6679 nah.
@masonmorgan4
2 жыл бұрын
this dude had such a love for languages, he literary taught himself Finnish just to read the Kalevala, that's a gangsta tier linguist flex.
@mercharris5266
2 жыл бұрын
I hear Finnish one of the hardest languages to learn.
@ZombiefrogNG
2 жыл бұрын
Kalevala truly is something too that you must know the language very well to enjoy. You can of course learn the story through translation, but the book has been tailored with the finest potential of Finnish language. So much is simply lost through translation. Tolkien must've understood this well.
@thinkwithurdipstick
2 жыл бұрын
*literary*
@thinkwithurdipstick
2 жыл бұрын
@@the-chillian read the original comment again
@Melissa-wq9be
2 жыл бұрын
I hear he started it, but couldn’t Finnish… :D
@ShortHax
2 жыл бұрын
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe”
@TheSinghisking4ever
2 жыл бұрын
I remember reading that, which book was it?
@michaelgoldsmith6615
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheSinghisking4ever it's a quote from Carl Sagan
@DarkAvatar1313
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheSinghisking4ever Carl Sagan said it during the Cosmos (a PBS astronomy program)TV series. kzitem.info/news/bejne/0WmeuIuDaqtmdoY
@pike666db
2 жыл бұрын
@@DarkAvatar1313 boom! copyright strike!
@AConquerorsVendetta
Жыл бұрын
I thought it was Douglas Adams
@joshualovelace3375
2 жыл бұрын
Man, what I wouldn't give for a book signed by Tolkien in elvish!
@angel79nunn
2 жыл бұрын
I'd give my right leg 😂😅
@lilygreen221
2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same xD
@theofrustus3170
2 жыл бұрын
@@angel79nunn Three fingers from my left hand and three toes is the best I can do.
@spocksvulcanbrain
2 жыл бұрын
@@theofrustus3170 Sold!
@Zaire82
2 жыл бұрын
@@theofrustus3170 You'd have to get quite lucky to find a buyer for real fingers and toes. Sorry to say, but if you equate body parts to normal currency, fingers (and toes especially) are the nickels that pile up in your wallet for years until you physically can't fit anything else into your wallet, forcing you to go to a self-service machine to dump them into for a single bar of chocolate that you don't actually want enough to go through all this trouble for.
@ColonelPanic007
2 жыл бұрын
To think that hand wrote Middle-earth into a literary and cultural reality.
@cuhurun
2 жыл бұрын
Colonel... indeed so, nicely put.
@CristiNeagu
2 жыл бұрын
He did more than that. His works reshaped out understanding of fantasy. Everything that can be called fantasy made today is in some way influenced by his works. He gave us our current image of orcs and elves and halflings.
@bynflew8552
2 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for Amazon to fuck it all up
@CristiNeagu
2 жыл бұрын
@@bynflew8552 Can wait for them to make Luthien male in the name of diversity. African American Varda? Totally. Latinx Galadriel? Of course.
@bynflew8552
2 жыл бұрын
@@CristiNeagu 😃
@MaskedSarcasm
2 жыл бұрын
Tolkien: "...I've made a mistake, didn't I?" Me: Watching on in fascination, "I wouldn't know."
@justsomeone5936
2 жыл бұрын
It looks quite lovely doesn't it? A mixture of Sanskrit or other Indian writing systems and Arabic scripture, with a twist. I don't think your quotation marks were meant to represent exact quotes, but just to clarify, the exact quote from the video is: "Oh god...I made a mistake, never mind." :) Cheers.
@AlexanderJansen
2 жыл бұрын
"El*me* s*i*la lúmen* ómenti*lvo", roughly four spelling mistakes.
@Berenhardt
Жыл бұрын
Yes, so sad. Tolkien writes in this video "Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo!" wrong.
@christopherstein2024
Жыл бұрын
@@Berenhardt I made my own alphabet and I am not fluent in it at all. It's two things to invent something and to use it often enough that it becomes second nature. I'm better at writing in runes than my own alphabet.
@Berenhardt
Жыл бұрын
@@christopherstein2024 Die elbischen Schriftzeichen sind keine Alphabete, sondern sie sind phonetisch strukturiert. Runen wurden ebenfalls phonetisch benutzt. Wozu entwickelt man ein eigenes Alphabet?
@PoofyKittyPants
2 жыл бұрын
Tolkien was a linguist first. LotR was the universe he built for the languages he invented.
@cuhurun
2 жыл бұрын
Poofy... and what an amazing universe it is. His deep knowledge of history also really shines through, especially Anglo-Saxon-Norse history. For instance, his musings on Anglo-Saxon warriors if they'd have had access to destrier war-horses, rather than the tiny little ponies they used for getting from place to place. The result being his fictional horsemen, the Rohirrim. It would've been such a pleasure to have spoken with him, to have met him face to face.
@phreak761
2 жыл бұрын
@@cuhurun Tolkien does not converse with peasants.
@cuhurun
2 жыл бұрын
@@phreak761 : Your comment screams of your pure ignorance of JRR Tolkien and the places and people he frequented. Further, personally knowing one of his family, I can assure you, you know nothing of the man.
@phreak761
2 жыл бұрын
@@cuhurun Bitch, I am the man.
@cuhurun
2 жыл бұрын
@@phreak761 : Lol... little boy.
@lindildeev5721
2 жыл бұрын
My father has a friend specialised in Tolkien's literature. He came to dinner once and because he gave Elvish names to his sons (not officially of course), I asked him to find another one for me. He wrote it in Common Language and in Quenya, then explained how it works.
@williamwebb580
2 жыл бұрын
Is it “Singer / Maker of Music” in the Common Tongue?
@lindildeev5721
2 жыл бұрын
@@williamwebb580 More "She who likes music/Friend of music".
@williamwebb580
2 жыл бұрын
@@lindildeev5721 Ah, I see.
@Amantducafe
2 жыл бұрын
@@lindildeev5721 Beautiful
@SingingSpock
2 жыл бұрын
Damn, if I had a Quenyan name I’d use it online too
@tessrussell4662
2 жыл бұрын
I love how he could just make up any characters/letters on the spot, say they were elvish and we would have no choice but to believe him, but instead he gets frustrated at himself when he makes a mistake
@wizardsuth
2 жыл бұрын
One of the appendices in _The Return of the King_ lists the Elvish characters and their sounds. The line he's writing is from a scene in _The Fellowship of the Ring_ in which Frodo greets Gildor in his own language. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to check whether what Tolkien had written was consistent with his previous writings.
@mareksicinski3726
2 жыл бұрын
...no he couldn't because it was already established and we know what it was, this isn't soemthign that is not documented
@fredericbennett1672
Жыл бұрын
@@wizardsuth Funnily enough, he makes many mistake in this clip. He writes "Elem" instead of "Elen" and places the "E" tehta above the "N/M" instead of above the "L" tengwa as it should be in the Quenya mode. His brain must have been in Sindarin or English mode when he started writing the word and he seems not even to notice it. He also completely forgets to write the word "omentielvo" (which he spells "omentiilvo") and has to add it above the sentence! And if we really want to be nitpicky, he should have written "lùmen" with two "N"s as it's spelled "lumenn'" in the book, a contraction of "lumenna".
@fftere
Жыл бұрын
@@fredericbennett1672 wow, you really do know about this subject, don't you? It always fascinates me how youtube can bring people's experiences forth
@MrJipvh
Жыл бұрын
@@fredericbennett1672 what a flex!
@Toronto6ix
2 жыл бұрын
This mans a legend
@nepntzerZer
2 жыл бұрын
the twilight saga was far superior to anything he wrote as well as 50 shades of grey.
@elektronischemusik1903
2 жыл бұрын
and i love him forever...Lord of the rings hit me like a truck when i read it as a sixteen year old.
@Dassilon
2 жыл бұрын
He is.
@letto4737
2 жыл бұрын
The writer of Harry Potter too, that woman is a god
@invinsible1987
2 жыл бұрын
She took lord of the rings, she changed some name and call it a day. The plot is the same from start to the end. Harry -> Frodo Dumbledore -> Gandalf Order of the phenix -> fellowship of the ring Death eater -> Nazgul Horcruxe -> the one ring Voldemort -> sauron A guy living with his uncle, no parent has to go trought a journey to become stronger and kill the dark lord with the help of his friends.
@jheckerman
2 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing this clip! his penmanship is beautiful, not to mention that he invented a whole language!
@jonasrmb01
2 жыл бұрын
multiple languages
@jheckerman
2 жыл бұрын
@@jonasrmb01 tru
@WorldWar2freak94
2 жыл бұрын
@@jonasrmb01 And whole stories. Originally the languages came first and over time he created more and more of the world that they were used in.
@user-zz3sn8ky7z
2 жыл бұрын
@@WorldWar2freak94 honestly, that's his biggest flex imo. He created one of the most influential fictional worlds that redefined the concept of fantasy just to show off bunch of languages he made
@kxloux8466
2 жыл бұрын
@@jonasrmb01 wrong. One whole language. Sindarin/Quenya are complete and their own language, with grammar etc. the rest are incomplete/bare
@sargondp69
2 жыл бұрын
A rare treasure this. After watching the films 20 times, here Tolkien sounds like a mix of Gandalf, Bilbo, and Gimli. His spirit is in those films and even somewhat in the animated ones from years before: 'Where there's a whip, there's a way.'
@Relics_of_Arda
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@alfienade6738
2 жыл бұрын
an absolute banger of a tuine thanks for reminding me! 'but the lord of the whip says nay, nay , nay! we are going to march all day all day all day!'
@fitnesspoint2006
2 жыл бұрын
He basically using Urdu alphabet with letters and numbers from that language wirtte backwards or turned 180 degrees. Just google "Urdu alphabet"
@JonathanMartin884
2 жыл бұрын
Read the books. The books are infinitely better.
@sargondp69
2 жыл бұрын
@@JonathanMartin884 I and most here have genious. Read them again, the lesson of not making assumptions is in them multiple times.
@BobbyDukeArts
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder what that book is worth now
@willruss
2 жыл бұрын
Some people might feel a similar sentiment watching you turn mundane objects into enviable artifacts mr duke
@Me-xo5tw
2 жыл бұрын
Lol
@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
2 жыл бұрын
Millions 💰💲
@DraconicDuelist
2 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@SP-ny1fk
Жыл бұрын
More than all the money in the universe
@jack1701e
2 жыл бұрын
"A new language is like a new wine or a new sweet meat" that really sounds like something an Elf would say XD
@Azrael1st
11 ай бұрын
Ok Bastion Hallix
@justsumkid
2 жыл бұрын
I love how you can see the similarities of the script to that of arabic and numbers. Really shows the beauty of such fluid languages.
@abdelwestside9773
2 жыл бұрын
First 2 letters look like سح with the س upside down, he actually makes s sound when he writes it for the 3th time (س is kind of s in Arabic)
@torilan2672
Жыл бұрын
Yeah there are many Arabic letters.
@Fummy007
Жыл бұрын
numbers?
@VDViktor
3 ай бұрын
A language written in cursive : OoOoOh sO aRaBiC dOod
@cr3160
3 ай бұрын
@VDViktor cope it is clearly inspired by arabic
@redactedredacted6542
2 жыл бұрын
This man single handedly create one of the best, if not the best, books series ever.
@suvtropics
2 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite series. Going through them right now. I don't read a lot of books but I have finished the hobbit 3 times.
@holliswilliams8426
2 жыл бұрын
I have read the lord of the rings trilogy a few times, but I admittedly found it a bit odd the third time I read it.
@IamTechNerd
2 жыл бұрын
@@holliswilliams8426 why?
@abhabh6896
2 жыл бұрын
Probably best fiction.
@LethalOwl
2 жыл бұрын
"I've made a mistake." Don't you worry, professor. Most of us can't tell, we're just in awe.
@tjs114
2 жыл бұрын
My aunt was a children's librarian from 1950 to her retirement in 1994 (I doubt there are actual 'children's' librarians anymore.) She would attend book events and signings and she was able to get three books signed by Mr. Tolkein. The Hobbit was autographed in 1951 and her first edition Return of the King in 1955 and the final one was the first edition single-volume Lord of the Rings in 1968. I was very happy to inherit those books when she passed away in 2020.
@Relics_of_Arda
2 жыл бұрын
That's so cool.
@lilikazhimomi9822
2 жыл бұрын
You are so incredibly lucky
@Daydy377
Жыл бұрын
Keep'em secret Keep'em safe my man
@tombarac8253
8 ай бұрын
What a continuous present. Living history. ❤
@Rekaert
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, one of those humbling moments when you realise that Tolkien could write neater in a fictional language, than I can in my native actual language.
@Thelaretus
2 жыл бұрын
He wrote neater in Elvish than he could in English too. His handwriting is infamously cursed, to the point where even his son misread his manuscripts and only realised years later.
@Krawurxus
2 жыл бұрын
Calligraphy and handwriting are two very different things. Look at how long it takes him to write this one sentence and how often he takes the pen off the paper and how careful he is to write neatly. When you look at his hand and not at what he's writing it's very apparent that this is closer to calligraphy. But there would have to be some cursive style of writing Elvish that's used in everyday life optimized for speed.
@solid_fire9388
2 жыл бұрын
that first letter looks very similar to the arabic letter ح, this is amazing
@whiteholeeducationcenter
2 жыл бұрын
I also noticed that
@trikebeatstrexnodiff
2 жыл бұрын
This is what I had noticed too
@williamadiputra2850
2 жыл бұрын
What about japanese て
@the-chillian
2 жыл бұрын
It's similar to Arabic in another way too. The main letter forms (tengwar) are consonants only. Vowels are expressed as marks either above or below the letter. Depending on the mode, the marks (tehtar) may indicate a vowel either before or after the letter it's attached to. In the mode he's using here (I think it's for Quenya) it's after. Since the first word _elen_ ("a star") begins with a vowel, the first "letter" he writes is a "carrier" that merely serves to support the vowel, which looks like an elongated acute accent. The letter that resembles Arabic ح is an L, so the resemblance may not be deliberate.
@thorr18BEM
2 жыл бұрын
It's the Tengwar letter lambë. (There are four of them in the phrase)
@grim3897
2 жыл бұрын
This man is what "peak human" looks like. Wish there were more people like him around us.
@lean4real_11
2 жыл бұрын
stop wishing and be that person
@equilibrum999
Жыл бұрын
不祝,成之为
@witokija
Жыл бұрын
there are plently, you're just to busy sucking tolkiens dick and polishing his shoes to notice anything else
@faresalhawaj9936
2 жыл бұрын
So not only he was an epic writer but also a skillful calligrapher. Much respect for Tolkien.
@EpicWorkshop
2 жыл бұрын
He lived for this, I absolutely adore it :)
@alexjeffrey3981
7 ай бұрын
I never realised before this moment how visually similar his Elvish script is to Arabic. Clearly he took some inspiration there!
@ayyylmao101
3 ай бұрын
I looked through all the comments hoping someone would mention the clear letters ha (ح), che (چ), za (ز), tha (ط), saad (ص) and nun (ن), as well as the horizontal Greek beta (β), and the diacritic marks (like the marks on the following word: ٱلْحَدِيث)! XD Although che is not from Arabic, but Persian
@laboskie349
2 жыл бұрын
The language looks so elegant and smoothly written. Like Arabic or Hindi.
@AjZ530
8 ай бұрын
As someone who speaks arabic, it is clearly influenced in part by Arabic, some of the letters are almost exactly the same, like these for example ح خ ج
@ayyylmao101
3 ай бұрын
@@AjZ530 ^ Nearly everything in the sentence, bar the Greek letter beta, is an Arabic letter or diacritic mark, except for the standout letter che (چ)
@nomorenames7323
2 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite things about the recordings we have of Tolkien is how fluidly he switches between talking about our world and his. He says that the elves have better handwriting than he does like he might say he prefers one ale over another or comment on the weather.
@owenb8636
2 жыл бұрын
This is the only time where someone could justifiably say they didn't make a mistake with their writing and everyone else is wrong lol
@beamonlawrence8216
2 жыл бұрын
Truly a master of his craft
@Kingdom_Of_Dreams
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine having a signed copy of one of the books with elvish written by his own hand 😱
@pranjalfarhan7771
2 жыл бұрын
"Oh god, I've made a mistake didn't I ?" Don't worry Tolkien we wouldn't know
@teabaganyone7830
2 жыл бұрын
He truly was an incredible person
@snifey7694
5 ай бұрын
Its like seeing left-to-right Arabic with a mix of Sanskrit
@eoinfenton3416
2 жыл бұрын
Script reminds me so much of the old Irish script. There are old roll books in the school where I teach written in it and it’s stunningly beautiful
@awitchwith3diplomas426
2 жыл бұрын
I got back into lotr again, after not touching the books for a good five years and I'm glad I did because now gems like this get recommended to me! It's also always nice to come back to your childhood favourites a bit older, you get a whole new perspective on them
@theodenking169
2 жыл бұрын
I agree, although sometimes too much nostalgia can be bad. It's an interesting experience to reintegrate childhood books back into your identity after becoming an adult.
@ksol1460tv
Жыл бұрын
Every time I read Lord of the Rings I get more out of it. Once a year since 1972.
@GeFlixes
2 жыл бұрын
For everyone wondering: That strongly looks like a pen with a stenography tip. In many stenography systems, line thickness is important because it actually changes the characters you're writing. The two nibs of the tip are flexible, and the stroke gets thicker the more pressure you apply because you bend the nips outwards. You can see that by how Tolkien writes the thick parts slower than the fast parts. This is different to calligraphy pens whose line thickness varies by angle of the pen because the top is flat. Could honestly be both from that angle and video sharpness.
@tacosmexicanstyle7846
2 жыл бұрын
Are those not the same as fountain pens? I do all my handwriting with one, and the dual nib tip is exactly as you describe on mine
@GeFlixes
2 жыл бұрын
@@tacosmexicanstyle7846 yes, a type of fountain pen. Don't go and try to bend a regular fountain pen's nips - they stay bend, and it's the absolute pits. Sourve: we wrote with fountain pens in school, and I needed a new pen every few years.
@carlosruperto8705
2 жыл бұрын
It's not dual-nibbed. It is all one nib, the term used for the parts of the nib that have the cut through the middle is 'tines'. Indeed, I believe that this was some sort of either left-oblique or italic nib with some flexibility. Judging by the little that is shown in this video it would be very hard to tell what particular pen this is but certainly several companies knew how to produce gorgeous nibs back in the day.
@ksol1460tv
Жыл бұрын
Thank you from a fountain pen addict.
@littletweeter1327
Жыл бұрын
its just a flex nib lol.. nothing special
@SuperCactusman
11 ай бұрын
Tolkien was nearly as genius as Shakespeare, just in a different fashion. Love this video.
@LastManFilmsUS
2 жыл бұрын
Dude wrote a entire universe into existence so he had a place for his own original language.
@captainoofmerica2478
2 жыл бұрын
His clear love for making languages is so infectious. It's like when you're talking to someone who's super passionate about a show or game that you're not to big on but they love it so much it makes you want to love it too.
@4eyesinthecorner399
2 жыл бұрын
Even in elvish, his handwriting is beautiful
@tamadreesi4575
2 жыл бұрын
The amount of creativity and imagination that JRR had was massive. He lived in two worlds or more at the same time.
@oscargill423
2 жыл бұрын
Man, I wish I had the patience, creativity and thirst for knowledge to do something like this. Create an entire world complete with peoples, hierarchies and, most importantly, conlangs.
@bankerduck4925
2 жыл бұрын
Oh so beautiful. There shall never be one like him. I mean SERIOUSLY! God bless the Tolkiens and thank Sir J.R.R. Tolkien!
@KuroHebi
2 жыл бұрын
Tolkien's Elvish scripture is heavily inspired by arabic lettering. I even recognize a few characters in whatever he wrote.
@kimreni
2 жыл бұрын
I thought the same! Arabic and maybe the Georgian alphabet, too
@henrikhubert4202
2 жыл бұрын
I have a T-shirt with Elvish scripture on it. People always ask me why do I have Arabic words on my tee haha.
@reginaldforthright805
2 жыл бұрын
No that’s merely a coincidence. Tolkien’s invention is 100% original and owes nothing to Arabic.
@basementsage1443
2 жыл бұрын
@@reginaldforthright805 there's a literal arabic letter with no changes in what Tolkien wrote in the video
@theshazman
2 жыл бұрын
@@reginaldforthright805 He also invented the pen, and the process of turning wood pulp into canvas to write on. Quite the visionary man!
@blazednlovinit
2 жыл бұрын
Tolkien's work has such deep melancholy for me. There is a constant theme of "waning", like things being destroyed or corrupted and never being able to be as great again or acquired again. The Lamps couldn't be made again so they had to make the trees, Arda became "Arda Marred" and could never be made perfect and symmetrical again... and then the trees also were destroyed and couldn't be remade, the silmarils were lost and couldn't be remade.... the elves are slowly fading in middle earth as they need to return to Valinor... the role of Morgoth waned in that Sauron took it over, and then he too had his power diminished.
@noodboy4633
Жыл бұрын
everyone will be back for dagor dagorath tho
@blazednlovinit
Жыл бұрын
@@noodboy4633 Thanks mate, I needed that :)
@equilibrum999
Жыл бұрын
everyonll retutrn to Eru Lluvatar
@gamdanyunizar7849
7 ай бұрын
Ecclesiastes
@deeramos9416
2 жыл бұрын
This is truly a treasure . Thank you
@lanafair2625
2 жыл бұрын
I've never heard his voice and he sounds nothing like I imagined but also so right for who he was
@Geworfenheit
2 жыл бұрын
This moments forces you to think that Middle Earth is really exist somewhere.
@crapface911
2 жыл бұрын
thats the hand of the master writing those words. the greatest worldbuilder of all time.
@legendary56
2 жыл бұрын
jrr tolkien was one of the coolest people ever to live.
@Internetguy_L337_90D
2 жыл бұрын
creating a language for a book. he really deserved all the credit he got throughout his years
@MollyHJohns
2 жыл бұрын
No, it's actually the other way around if I'm not wrong. He created* the entire book series AROUND the language he created first, because he's a linguist first before a writer.
@valmid5069
2 жыл бұрын
Seller: I got this Tolkien's autograph in Elvish language Rick from Pawn Stars: *Best I can do is $20*
@SquirrelASMR
6 ай бұрын
That's really soothing to watch I wish I could watch him write pages and pages like that
@justsean5774
2 жыл бұрын
I love the elvish writing so beautiful
@dgurlie-0273
2 жыл бұрын
This man is extremely gifted to create such a language!
@Betito1171
2 жыл бұрын
For some reason learning Elvish seems more dignified than learning Klingon to me
@samwecerinvictus
2 жыл бұрын
Because it 100% is.
@Eowyn3Pride
7 ай бұрын
😂❤❤that also is quite unique! Probablg easier than Vulcan🖖!
@kefka3
4 ай бұрын
I absolutely adore how he talks about Elvish as if it's a real language, not one he himself made up. He says "oh dear, I've made a mistake", like anyone would ever notice. Like, his own handwriting, in a language he made up, is inferior to the fictional beings he also invented who speak this language. Middle Earth to Tolkien, exists like a real place. For all intents and purposes, it was real to him. in his mind. I feel like that's why he put such effort into making the legendarium as full and detailed as possible.
@kelly6957
2 жыл бұрын
I'm just smiling so big watching this, what an amazing clip.❤
@I_SuperHiro_I
4 ай бұрын
That’s the single most beautiful piece of text I’ve ever seen.
@valentinabucibattorti9813
2 жыл бұрын
Showed this to my boyfriend: he said: "I feel like Sheldon with the Leonard Nimoy's napkin!!!"
@Tony-Anderson
4 ай бұрын
As a amateur world and language maker, that "oh god, I made a mistake" as he was writing. I felt that deep in my soul 🥲
@warbossgrotsmasha23
2 жыл бұрын
his elven calligraphy is beautiful
@aidanjude2110
7 күн бұрын
Man I wish he was around today so he could make videos on how to speak and write elvish. This short clip was so captivating.
@mr2octavio
2 жыл бұрын
Whomever has THAT book with TOLKIEN'S elven writing I sure hope he or she owns a treasure
@hotelmario510
8 ай бұрын
Tolkien was simultaneously extremely articulate and remarkably inarticulate at the same time.
@chrisbergonzi7977
5 ай бұрын
Brilliance incarnate...
@Sangrell
2 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday JRR!! :D In your honour I shall go wandering today.
@robertoneill1979
2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Tolkien bored with marking homework when he wrote the opening line of "The Hobbit"? And here he is all those years later correcting himself in front of the camera 🤩😍 Thanks so much for sharing this clip 🤩👍
@Relics_of_Arda
2 жыл бұрын
Your welcome!
@business_pear
8 ай бұрын
I could watch this for hours. It's a shame it's barely over a minute long. Still, I'm glad we get the chance to see this legend write in the language he created.
@thomasruud2238
2 жыл бұрын
Damn nice pen he’s got too. Look at that marvelous ink flow.
@leftyfourguns
5 ай бұрын
I just realized they had Gandalf recite this phrase in the movie, in front of the doors to Moria. Mind blowing attention to detail!
@BlackHermit
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful handwriting.
@isaacbruner65
7 ай бұрын
It's been nearly 70 years since The Fellowship of the Ring was published in July of 1954 and no fantasy author has come close to this level of worldbuilding in all that time. A singular mind.
@0neangrypanda
2 жыл бұрын
Looks like a mix of arabic, hebrew and sanskrit. Beautiful
@phaedruslykos3249
2 жыл бұрын
He said "Ive made a mistake, haven't I?" with full tongue in cheek. He knew very well nobody understood his creation better than him. It's all art. Where can you make a mistake my old friend.
@Revan-N7
2 жыл бұрын
Looks like a mix between arabic and latin, beautiful.
@torieldreemurr541
8 ай бұрын
I can imagine this being written with a quill on parchment while leaving a trail of fire with every stroke
@annaroselarsen4218
2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome!
@bayrockwhk
16 күн бұрын
truly historic video the man who made it all possible...
@7STERN_L
2 ай бұрын
Translation: Elen = Star Sila = (to) shine Lúmenn = the shining ( of the Star) Omenthielwo = our meeting * Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo = A Star shines upon Our Meeting
@darkevilazn
8 ай бұрын
Dayum. His penmanship is so good, even in elvish.
@JacobIX99
2 жыл бұрын
It looks very Arabic-Hebrew so much
@RHelenius
2 жыл бұрын
I love that he invented the language and still mucks it up
@robertoneill1979
2 жыл бұрын
And no one would have probably ever noticed if he hadn't said. This is just wonderful 🤩
@pspboy7
2 жыл бұрын
He invented Quenya, Sindarin, and also the Runic language of the dwarves. Amazing!
@Relics_of_Arda
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@dorkinabubble7772
7 ай бұрын
His script writing is so exquisite, so clean and delicate even when he says he made a mistake lol
@alexbross8178
2 жыл бұрын
Moral of the story: If your handwriting is good enough, it doesnt matter if its wrong, just write it
@ionutdenes
2 жыл бұрын
I expected that writing to start glowing at some point
@donghoonkim7488
2 жыл бұрын
Tolkien: Creates an entire language for his books. Also Tolkien: MOUNT DOOM Jokes aside, I love his books to death. Nothing but respect for this man...a shame we'll never get to know what he had planned after LoTRs. There's only like the first 30 pages of it before he passed. RIP. One of the greatest authors of all time.
@nitrogenthrone1778
2 жыл бұрын
Tolkien actually created the world that the books happen in for the languages he made, Tolkien started creating the elvish dialects or what would be elvish in 1914
@bradleywesterman4439
2 жыл бұрын
If you don’t like calling it Mount Doom you could use it’s other names Orodruin and Amon Amarth. They sound more appropriate because Mount Doom is the translated version. I’m sure you probably knew this though.
@1232002Jarne
2 жыл бұрын
Other name(s) Orodruin, Amon Amarth, the Fiery Mountain
@1232002Jarne
2 жыл бұрын
I know it was a joke but maybe you didn't know you might have found the names interesting ^^
@raymondlugo9960
2 жыл бұрын
He didn't stop writing about the 4th age because he died. He stopped because he didn't like the way his story was turning out.
@ThatOneElfEnjoyer
2 ай бұрын
Thanks to Mr.Tolkien for creating one of the most beautiful races ever 🗿🍷❤
@FarawayStars
8 ай бұрын
This man really took Arabic letters, wrote from left to right and called it Elvish😂
@Daryavahush
8 ай бұрын
i see that you don't know how languages work. there is the spoken language and written language, those are two different things-that code you made back in 3rd grade which is basically a 1:1 substitute from the english alphabet is not a language. also, it looks very different from arabic. sure, he might've took inspiration from it, but grammatically and phonologically, the language is very different from arabic and more similar to the celtic languages.
@lifeisbeautiful015
8 ай бұрын
@@Daryavahush so in conclusion - he took arabic letters and instead of real arabic grammar, he basically made his own grammar. seems pretty cheap. before start pulling the "hes way above you" card, look hes a good writer and shit. but accept it, he wasn’t extraordinarily creative with that language. admit it and move on
@m-h1217
8 ай бұрын
@@lifeisbeautiful015 Point out which letter is an Arabic one. Also, explain how it is "cheap" if he even did directly take the Arabic alphabet but it's still an entire language on its own. You are aware that 150 languages use the latin alphabet, right genius?
@Daryavahush
8 ай бұрын
@@lifeisbeautiful015 you *really* know nothing about language construction don't you? unless its a relex of existing world languages (such as skyrim's Dovahzul), its not "cheap". have you ever tried crafting an entire naturalistic language from the ground up? Its not just making up words for pre-existing english words.
@TranscendentLion
6 ай бұрын
@@lifeisbeautiful015 Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts all derive from the Phoenician alphabet, so anyone who has used those alphabets in the last four thousand years is, by your standards, 'pretty cheap'.
@kayracan3663
2 жыл бұрын
this man created a new language for a book, respect him.
@1232002Jarne
2 жыл бұрын
A book for a new language! Even more impressive :p
@MollyHJohns
2 жыл бұрын
No it's the other way around I believe. He wrote the entire series AFTER he created the languages, because he's a linguist first before a writer.
@anpratadraiochtuil5293
2 жыл бұрын
Tolkein spent time in Western Ireland studying Irish. Although his views on the language and people were unpleasant, to put it mildly, it's clear the Gaelic Script had an impact on Elvish type. Look at the use of 'ꞇ', 'ꝺ' and the use of diacritics such as 'í', 'ṁ' for instance.
@Jun-Kyard
2 жыл бұрын
Backwards arabic?
@saruyelthunderbird8117
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jun-Kyard the visual similarities to Arabic are caused by the calligraphic flowing style of writing. Arabs since the Age of Islam wrote with ink on paper or papyrus. The Latin script and other European scripts such as Germanic runes were first carved into stone or clay, which is why they are all straight lines. The language Tolkien invented that is most similar to Arabic is Khuzdul, the language of the Dwarves. It is also based on three-consonant roots. But the Dwarves prefer the runic script, as they carved in stone (Balin's Tomb is one of the few Khuzdul examples of them writing Khuzdul in Cirth, the runes).
@dissident_media
Жыл бұрын
couldn't even tell he made a mistake that was so perfect
@gusmonster59
2 жыл бұрын
My friends and I learned ro write in elvish in high school (in the '70s) so we could pass notes in class. The teachers who were prone to reading passed notes aloud to the class were not amused. I used to sign my ceramics in elvish as well.
@Beowulf-eg2li
2 жыл бұрын
one of my favourite things on youtube!
@flores5420
2 жыл бұрын
I wanna see a copy of the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings trilogy entirely in Elvish
@Brievel
2 жыл бұрын
Quenya or Sindarin?
@kung3518
2 жыл бұрын
He originally wanted to get it published in Elvish but publishers wouldn’t allow
@equilibrum999
Жыл бұрын
Tengwar writting or Latin writting?
@musikSkool
2 жыл бұрын
Forget English, the whole world should just learn Elvish 😁
@1msirius
3 ай бұрын
he is my fav friction writer I love him, lotr, middle earth
@aethernalworld
2 жыл бұрын
Didn’t know that Elvis had his own language
@haitolawrence5986
2 жыл бұрын
In the common tongue it is often referred to as 'rock and roll.' 😎
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