"Let me say at once that owing to the casualties in the war and various other things, there were very few people to elect. It's a pity you couldn't be here in the springtime when that tree there wouldn't look sad, but it'd be covered with leaves, you see. It would look old but not sad. And these, with all the limes obviously, however old they are, they're a lovely green in spring. I suppose. I have actually, in some simple-minded form of longing, actually would like to. I should've liked to be be able to make contact with a tree and find out what it feels about things. "I first began to seriously invent languages about when I was 13 or 14. I've never stopped really."
@purplefishy8164
Жыл бұрын
"with leaves, you see" sounded more like "with leaves n shiet"
@nathangamble125
Жыл бұрын
" I should've liked to be be able to make contact with a tree and find out what it feels about things." So what I'm getting from this is that Tolkien wanted to f**k an ent?
@muhammadHassan-kj1jy
Жыл бұрын
Ty for this😊
@Xezlec
Жыл бұрын
How did you figure all that out? He's worse than Churchill! Did the Kaiser raid England and steal all its consonants or something?
@mothiurNCL
Жыл бұрын
Guess who liked to make it 1k? yw
@tonywhitburn
Жыл бұрын
Perchance
@lordhelmchen3154
Жыл бұрын
But for a true language exam you have to sample that through a recording of an airport terminal or a subway station and make sure the background noises are five times as loud as the dialogue. Oh and also play the whole thing through a barely functioning speaker from the 1900s and then rerecord that so that the quality is the lowest you will ever hear in your whole life.
@tylersaurusakro
Жыл бұрын
@@lordhelmchen3154 and after all that stand 30 feet from the speaker, Gavin away from it, while you must read something other than what you're supposed to be listening to
@connoisseurdumbass1863
Жыл бұрын
And adele 😭
@godofgamingnos
Жыл бұрын
Ever been to Glasgow? Or Belfast?
@hisss
Жыл бұрын
*He.
@DougWIngate
Жыл бұрын
He is speaking perfect English. When Tolkien mutters something, it automatically becomes an official part of the Oxford Dictionary
@miketackabery7521
Жыл бұрын
🤣
@plebisMaximus
Жыл бұрын
I mean, he did teach English at Oxford. If anyone's the authority on what's Oxford English, it'd be him lol.
@JoeMama410
Жыл бұрын
@@plebisMaximusHe also contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary.
@manjensen1710
Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is that this happened a bit with Shakespeare, some of the words that he wrote in his works, officially became part of English.
@mwvidz324
Жыл бұрын
This but unironically.
@calebgilbreath6116
5 ай бұрын
He sounds like the sweetest jolly old man ever. I could listen to him talk for hours.
@MetalheadBen89
4 ай бұрын
Yes and listen to him talk about trees. His appreciation for trees is so charming. What a marvelous person
@xexyz0xexyl
4 ай бұрын
@@MetalheadBen89 He did some drawings of trees if you didn't know. Did you know that when Treebeard was first discovered (he had ceased to 'invent' things - or often enough he just learnt about them and with Treebeard he was just as surprised as the rest of us) he was a Stone Giant? Treebeard was in league with the Enemy and it was the first version of Gandalf's delay! (There were other reasons before it became being prisoner at Orthanc.) The first Hobbit that encountered Treebeard was Frodo (though in the beginning Frodo was a different Hobbit). And Ent comes from eoten: OE for giant. This caused having to rename a place due to a similar name (perhaps you know what I refer to but if not sorry - I must leave now). This info btw is in The Return of the Shadow (one of the possible names that Tolkien decided against), HoMe VI (History of Middle-earth, VI, the first part of the history of The Lord of the Rings.) But yes he loved trees very much. And they're so wonderful.
@lookfat
3 ай бұрын
He sounds like Ozzy Osbourne
@cranialfluids09
3 ай бұрын
-and not understand a single word. (There, finished your sentence for you) 😂
@danmark2824
2 ай бұрын
@@lookfat because Ozzy and JRRT are all from birmingham, as someone from birmingham and reguarly drives past his old house on wake green road, the accent can be hard to understand especially in the older videos when the accent was a lot thicker
@lizziewicked
5 ай бұрын
He’s definitely speaking English. It’s just British English. I understand every word
@user-fg5xs9lh7s
4 ай бұрын
@@labakanurzidil2464ironically I didn't understand a single word of this comment
@SilvanaSerra-lt3yc
4 ай бұрын
yeah shitty language and worst version of English, thank god the English spoken in the world is based on the American one
@HansWurst1569
4 ай бұрын
I’m Dutch and I also understood every word. The person who made the video is probably a uncultured american 😂
@101steel4
4 ай бұрын
Not British English, just English 😉
@user-fg5xs9lh7s
4 ай бұрын
For people in the future, the person I was replying to in that first comment deleted it. It was an incoherent mess filled with random nouns commas and ellipses, idk what he was even waffling about, he managed to mention Joe biden and n*zis somehow too 😂 Just thought I should save that moment
@Guyledouche4106
Жыл бұрын
A writer is never wrong, nor does he mumble. He says precisely what he means to.
@celebrim1
Жыл бұрын
You win the thread.
@MarchingOn
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@umurkaragoz
Жыл бұрын
I seer what yew don thar
@nelsonbernardi1072
Жыл бұрын
Tolkien the grey
@MasterArchfiend
Жыл бұрын
I mumble all the time. I just don’t do it in writing.
@chronikhiles
6 ай бұрын
His speech is fluent, his choice of pauses is just very unusual.
@DrihunGaming
15 күн бұрын
i'ts not the pauses, it's the mumbling
@Doctor_Smith
11 күн бұрын
it’s not the mumbling, it’s the bumbling.
@coolhandluke212
4 ай бұрын
Tolkien was known to be difficult to understand even among his friends. Biographies of him mention that this was likely a reason his lectures were not well attended. Also, it is the reason why his son Christopher, when he was old enough, would attend meetings of the Inklings so that he could read excerpts of the Lord of the Rings to the group. He was much easier for them all to understand.
@Jim-Mc
Ай бұрын
His recorded excerpts of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings which can be found on KZitem are beautiful though. Maybe it was possible in short bursts.
@DamianSzajnowski
Жыл бұрын
Having worked at a pub in the UK, I assure you, he is more understandable here than 90% of my clients; drunk or sober.
@Foxikaze
Жыл бұрын
Are you Polish?
@xannyboofer7029
Жыл бұрын
@@Foxikazewith a name like that, i’d be surprised if he wasn’t
@deeznuts23yearsago
Жыл бұрын
Have you heard Devonshire farmers? Those guys you couldn’t understand even living here your whole life I still struggle sometimes but when they’re drunk they aren’t speaking human
@sasukesarutobi3862
Жыл бұрын
"Of course, I was very, very drunk at the time."
@jhsevs
Жыл бұрын
«Clients» 💀
@intjdragon8227
Жыл бұрын
When you've become such a connoisseur of Old English that you forget how to speak regular modern English.
@SCARRIOR
Жыл бұрын
Define modern English? English changes every few decades. Unfortunately we have generations that would suffice 'bruh' 'bro' for brother etc.
@hoarder1919
Жыл бұрын
@@SCARRIOR there's no such thing as "unfortunately" when it comes to language. As you said yourself, "English changes". Changes constantly, and there is nothing good or bad about that. "bruh" is just a part of that change, just like "you" instead of "thou" was a part of some older change.
@lukeboyd3226
Жыл бұрын
@@SCARRIOR Modern English is the form of English that emerged roughly around 1500 and can be pretty well understood by people today. There have been times of rapid change while the last two hundred years of standard English have been pretty still.
@Wveth
Жыл бұрын
Modern English started 600 years ago, dude. If you think THIS is hard to understand, look up what actual Middle English and Old English sounded like. They're so different they sound like an entirely different language.
@spencerfrankclayton4348
Жыл бұрын
Forget how to speak modern English?? No, it's just how quickly or mumbling he does it; he otherwise has perfect speech. He'd be appalled at how much language has regressed today.
@linkfan160
7 ай бұрын
It's hard to believe that there was an entire fantasy world living in this man's head at one time. How lucky are we that he chose to share it with us all.
@xexyz0xexyl
7 ай бұрын
Ah but was it 'at one time'? It changed over time, some things more than others. You'd find this if you read HoMe (History of Middle-earth), the Letters and Unfinished Tales or UT (amongst others). Not for those who aren't heavily into Tolkien though.
@ScienceDiscoverer
6 ай бұрын
It wasn't all at one time. Maybe general flow of events, but not EVERYTHING that is in the books.
@Icetea-2000
6 ай бұрын
How is that hard to believe?
@labakanurzidil2464
4 ай бұрын
maybe not only in his head, if naZi$$m was only in heads of anglo$$axons (Mordor), others wouldnt let them to rule the world on costs of others, right?
It seems incredible that this man is captured on film, he seems like a primordial legend to me, from a time before technology.
@DSprich
Жыл бұрын
I worked at a pharmacy before and got to read doctors' handwriting, but this is the first time I've heard it.
@triggeredbyeverything2580
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@John-ns9oy
Жыл бұрын
Best coment !
@grandmasgopnik9642
Жыл бұрын
I was like I understand him regardless of the different accent. I don’t know why. Now I understand 😂 we’ve had to
@erilaz7
11 ай бұрын
Speaking of handwriting, Tolkien's ranged from gorgeous calligraphy to impenetrable chicken scratch. When the ideas were coming fast and furious, his handwriting sometimes became so bad that even he couldn't completely decipher it later.
@gerardtimings5625
8 ай бұрын
lol
@paulpenfold867
Жыл бұрын
"Let me say at once, that errr... due to the casualties in the war and various other things there were very few people to elect [to the professorial chair]" - "It's a pity you couldn't be here in the springtime then that tree there wouldn't look sad, it'd be covered with leaves you see, it'd look old but not sad, and these errr [cut-off mid-sentence]" - "In 1972, however old they are, they're a lovely green in the spring" - "I s'pose... I have actually in some simple-minded form of longing, actually would like to... I should've liked to make contact with a tree and find out what it feels about things!" - "I first began seriously to invent languages... about when I was 13 or 14, I've never stopped really". Tolkien was renowned for mumbling lol.
@arturomorales966
Жыл бұрын
Owing to , not due to
@paulpenfold867
Жыл бұрын
@@arturomorales966 well spotted.
@arturomorales966
Жыл бұрын
@@paulpenfold867 it’s cool, man. It’s kinda fun. I think old Irish people from the country are a tougher nut to crack.
@eliotreader8220
Жыл бұрын
because my mind is different from my brother's I some times have trouble getting my words out
@MrAgamble
Жыл бұрын
His writing, too, was sometimes illegible.
@SiimKoger
Ай бұрын
No one understood his speech so he decided to become one of the best English writers of all time.
@Dnichols619
6 ай бұрын
As an American, this sounds like British Boomhauer
@scottanderson2458
Жыл бұрын
Came across a lovely old gentleman in emergency work a few years back. A 999 call which was coded as a stroke and that patient is stuck somewhere. On arriving at scene it soon became apparent that this posh speech pattern had been misinterpreted as stroke symptoms and that he was simply caught up in his own clothing and too weak to remove the offending jumper, hence " I'm stuck ". He'd correctly used his community alarm to ask for assistance but this is Perthshire in Scotland and that way of speaking is quite rare. A replicated call some weeks later had me radio our control to tell them he's not having a stroke he just speaks like Rex Harrison. He was again caught in cardie 😅
@madwhitehare3635
Жыл бұрын
Scott…..great story! 🤭
@vlnow
Жыл бұрын
More needs to be done to protect our old folk from cardigans. Thank you for your service.
@hamishanderson6738
Жыл бұрын
Woolly thinking. 🧥
@alastairdouglas6302
Жыл бұрын
Sitting reading this in Perthshire Scotland 😂
@warriorofthewest3340
Жыл бұрын
So 999 is the emergency number in the UK? I'll have to remember that next time I go back, just in case. (Obviously I'm an American of British descent)
@Dave-ks9fi
Жыл бұрын
That's how most old people talked when I was a kid, he's perfectly understandable.
@arturomorales966
Жыл бұрын
I think you nailed it. Kissing ass aside (as most people in the comments are), he was mumbling a bit and I think that other old folks do the same where I live (and in Spanish!). Perhaps he was tired, perhaps he wasn’t used to speaking in front of a camera 🤷🏽♂️
@lukea136
Жыл бұрын
Dat ain't how dey speak now though innit...
@DeclanMBrennan
Жыл бұрын
And now we are old as well. Mumble mutter, where's the butter?
@boxlessone1046
Жыл бұрын
@@DeclanMBrennan *in a voice filled with childish malice*: “it’s up ya arse, old man!” The leader of the gang of bike-riding children proclaims. As they peddle away, the sound of snickering laughter carries down to you, upon the wind.
@DeclanMBrennan
Жыл бұрын
@@boxlessone1046 🤣 Who is next to add to this story chain? I can't wait to see what happens next.
@jackspry9736
2 ай бұрын
RIP J. R. R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973), aged 81 You will be remembered as a legend.
@Tasorius
Ай бұрын
Currently 132 years old and still writing, wherever he is.
@raantas946
2 ай бұрын
When you create so many languages that you forget which one to use
@prot07ype87
Жыл бұрын
This man's word choice and his way of speaking are very eloquent. He should write a book.
@arrow2knee385
9 ай бұрын
He did. It's called the silmarillion
@samdobie6748
9 ай бұрын
@@arrow2knee385He is clearly joking...
@IncensedAgitator
9 ай бұрын
Sadly he is dead
@Wockes
8 ай бұрын
@@IncensedAgitator Sadly, no books to be written when you're dead
@Featherfinder
8 ай бұрын
@@Lich___ Giving you a thumbs up, Lich! Good one!
@vytas5584
Жыл бұрын
I’m Australian and I can understand him fine. He just speaks in fragments because his mind moves faster than his words.
@blazednlovinit
Жыл бұрын
@@NoName-fv5oo Strange thing to declare about someone you know nothing about.
@WholesomeMemes
Жыл бұрын
@@blazednlovinit Nonsense. He's European now. No name said so; The arbiter of reality.
@IlIBonesIlI
Жыл бұрын
@@NoName-fv5oo see, it's funny how Australians get told they're not really Australians, but as an American who's lineage is entirely British, I'll never be welcome in, or seen as a member of Britain. Source: lived in the UK 28 years, still treated like an n'wah and a s'wit, asked when I'm going back home all the time by perfect strangers.
@Dushmann_
Жыл бұрын
@@blazednlovinit Australians are descendents of British settlers and therefore European. Australians are literally just tanned British people. European is a race. It doesn't matter what continent you're born in, you're still a European if you're white. Likewise, a black man born in Europe is not a European, he is an African living in Europe. That's what he was trying to say.
@blazednlovinit
Жыл бұрын
@@Dushmann_ When Australia was formed it was Brits and aboriginals, so that's two ethnicities there, and then afterwards many people will have emigrated there, it's rather close to the far east so I imagine a bunch of immigration comes from Eastern and Southern Asia.
@Hardcoreatheists41
Ай бұрын
Tolkien died ten years before i was born but his life and works have made such an impact on me that i will never be the same. I will never meet you but i thank you Mr. Tolkien for having a huge impact on my life.
@AdmiralYamamoto-ph2jd
Ай бұрын
God bless Tolkien, such a lovely man, truly the greatest fiction writer in history
@psychonaut689
8 ай бұрын
"... but I'm afraid I was very, very drunk."
@Fricasso79
4 ай бұрын
Came for the Rowley Birkin QC reference, was not disappointed.
@MrAnwer96
3 ай бұрын
it s some form of elvish
@andylikesstuffchannel
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂 Awesome 💯💯👍 fast show
@anteaterattack
3 ай бұрын
CAIRO!
@MrGoldenV
3 ай бұрын
@@anteaterattack and I cracked my head very sharply
@ltsch1671
Жыл бұрын
His flow of speech is unusual to many ears, like a stuttering car engine or a scratched CD. He reminds me of Winston Churchill or William Shatner. He stops or emphasizes where you don't normally, and then pick up the pace again, speaking quickly, almost swallowing words like French, then pausing again very briefly and so on. This way of speaking is rare and peculiar. I guess that's why it's not that easy for everyone to understand everything the first time.
@EntirelyPointlessContent
Жыл бұрын
It's quite a common speech pattern in England for the older generations. He's just going a little faster than normal. The queen sounds like this except more calculated and so more intelligible
@grandmasgopnik9642
Жыл бұрын
I used to listen to recordings of old radio shows, interviews and readings from Englishmen of an older generation so it doesn’t feel that odd. It’s like they just repeat until they get back unto what they meant. Southern Americans just have a different way about it.
@francisdec1615
Жыл бұрын
English is my second language, and I understand 100%, although I DO think that he's mumbling when talking.
@andrewg.carvill4596
Жыл бұрын
I don't think it was rare or peculiar in Oxford University in the 1960's.
@AllMyWakingHours
Жыл бұрын
This is the Oxbridge affectation from the 1950s to maybe the 70s. It’s a quick, stuttering form of speech that British intellectuals (or those who aspired to that status) put on to give the impression that everything they say is just pure, uncalculated intelligence. Basically they are so smart that their words can’t keep up.
@susanross1651
4 ай бұрын
Let me just say he was speaking perfect English & I found him far easier to understand than a lot of people today.
@Theunbiasvoice
Ай бұрын
British / BBC English is something very much missing these days!
@rad4924
3 ай бұрын
This is what English is supposed to sound like. It's everyone else who is failing to speak the language properly.
@crashbash8549
3 ай бұрын
There is no proper accent, they're all valid
@thefairhairedboywiththered2951
Жыл бұрын
He sounds fine. He just sounds like a very intelligent man sometimes struggling to articulate his thoughts in a clear way.
@spencerallison3196
Жыл бұрын
He is British, and the accent isn't helping.
@Alfred5555
Жыл бұрын
@@spencerallison3196 Specifically English, if we had a Welsh or Scottish accent on top of that scholars ramble we'd have no chance.
@plebisMaximus
Жыл бұрын
@@Alfred5555 We should all be thankful Tolkien wasn't a proper highland Scot, we would've never gotten anything out of his interviews.
@AroAceGamer
Жыл бұрын
Same. My autism makes it very hard to articulate.
@ukoronje
Жыл бұрын
As a non native speaker, to me it sounds like complete gibberish.
@foxygramp_1973
Жыл бұрын
being british gives you the power to understand even the most convoluted of english dialects
@gunkulator1
8 ай бұрын
Of which there are dozens. How does such a relatively small landmass give rise to so many and so varied modes of speaking English?
@vorynrosethorn903
8 ай бұрын
Centuries of settled living.
@bradleybrown8428
7 ай бұрын
it do do that, it do.
@wyverncoch4430
6 ай бұрын
@@gunkulator1 Try hundreds. I could pick out more than a dozen within 50 miles of where i live
@tonyg2554
5 ай бұрын
Except Geordie.
@Grizzlox
7 ай бұрын
You can really hear how Sir Ian McKellan took inspiration from Tolkien's voice for Gandalf
@chezzyboy
Жыл бұрын
0:01 “Let my say it once, but uhh, dwosidkdmrmtnfndjsjemrrn” very inspirational
@KlaraL-_-
Жыл бұрын
Loved what he said about trees. If you´ve ever read Tolkien, you know that nature (and especially trees) has an important part in his works. ❤🌳 Love you Tolkien, you´ve given me the best fictional world ever.
@jeremyfrost2636
Жыл бұрын
He was an environmentalist before it was cool.
@pierreo33
Жыл бұрын
@@jeremyfrost2636 People aren't environmentalists because it's cool, Jeremy.
@a_loyal_kiwi88
Жыл бұрын
@@pierreo33 If you truly believe that, then you have a very optimistic view on the ideological adoption behaviors of the modern person. Were it the popular belief to fell trees and set aflame forest worldwide, the Earth would be nothing but a ball of smoke and ash by years end.
@tyrannosaur_rex
Жыл бұрын
So... Bob Ross counterpart, but through words?
@enriquetaborda8521
Жыл бұрын
Thus were born the Ents ❤
@kadynisapanda
5 ай бұрын
This is getting saved to my asmr playlist
@PhattyBolger
14 күн бұрын
This is like the Churchill meme. If you're from England you know what they're saying. I understood about 99% of what he said here.
@alpacaofthemountain8760
Жыл бұрын
It’s hard to not mix up languages when you make new ones every year
@Philrc
Жыл бұрын
He's speaking English perfectly clearly in the main it may be difficult for Americans and others to understand perhaps as they are not tuned into it. he's got an RP oxford-educated accent. Slightly old school nowadays, a bit mumbly but perfectly intelligible
@mrkilowatt1811
Жыл бұрын
@@Philrc it was ironic man
@Philrc
Жыл бұрын
@@mrkilowatt1811 what was?
@CarbonDioxide.
Жыл бұрын
@@Philrc Tolkien created new languages for his books. That's the joke.
@glenhoddle9
7 ай бұрын
@@Philrc He´s not speaking perfectly clearly though! Some of these posh people look down their noses at others such as the working classes re their speech and other habits - OK, they´ve got a point - but at times their speech is also very unclear!!
@OraProNobis97
10 ай бұрын
Yes, but keep in mind, this man knew more about the English language than anybody in the comments.
@beastybacon199
7 ай бұрын
Not true I know all 24 letters of the alphabet
@lambentlamprey
7 ай бұрын
@@beastybacon199 Wait, how do you count more than 20. My shoea are off and everything
@arandomcommenter412
7 ай бұрын
Not true, I know English is like America and stuff
@graham3673
7 ай бұрын
Can you put them together as brilliantly as Tolkein?@@beastybacon199
@stettan1
7 ай бұрын
And still more about a shitload of other languages
@m1bl4n
4 ай бұрын
My primary language isn't even English and I perfectly understand what he's saying.
@33link333
7 ай бұрын
As someone with English as my second langguage, I can't say that I have much trouble understanding him. It does sound mumbly in places, but that might also be the audio quality playing tricks. His cadence could sound odd to a modern speaker I suppose, but it's not at all uncommon for older englishmen.
@timopper5488
Жыл бұрын
I think that with the volume normalized for the times when he speaks a bit under his breath, he would be understood 100% clearly.
@kentknightofcaelin4537
Жыл бұрын
For me as a non-native speaker, it was kinda difficult to understand him because his volume and tempo of speech fluctuates so much. His pronunciation is fine.
@timopper5488
Жыл бұрын
@@kentknightofcaelin4537 Yes, volume and tempo, I agree.
@rosemarymcbride3419
Жыл бұрын
He did after all grow up in an era with significantly less ambient industrial noise compared to more recently and as such many people didn't have the need to project.
@OrangeCat1992
10 ай бұрын
I agree. I think the only issues I had were volume, not accent. I understood him perfectly except for a couple of words sprinkled here and there.
@thrgd9607
Жыл бұрын
English is my second language and I understood everything he said.
@antebbing6588
Жыл бұрын
Do a transcript then
@pauloamaral6069
Жыл бұрын
Me too, you nincompoops!!!
@judbaker5752
Жыл бұрын
Top ten cappers revealed
@internetual7350
Жыл бұрын
Bruh it's my first and I'm straining.
@b.k.5667
Жыл бұрын
It's also my second language and i didn't understand like probably 50% of what he said
@rezarfar
19 күн бұрын
I understood everything because i grew up here in England, in Surrey where the vast majority speak proper English.
@mercurio7424
7 ай бұрын
Fantastic flow of speech, like trying to add a tonality, seems like he’s talking as if he’s writing the words on the paper
@Digital111
Жыл бұрын
"Ash nazg durbatulûk, The casualties of the war, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi, a lovely green in spring krimpatul..." - Tolkien
@neilwyatt3375
8 ай бұрын
This makes absolutely no sense - either to Tolkien or anyone well versed in either his works or in Old English, English or even Gibberish. Wtf were you smoking, and where in the name of the Edain can I get some?!
@ulfdanielsen6009
8 ай бұрын
Judging by all the tulûk and tuls as well as the burzum something Turkish i presume....
@dustingh
7 ай бұрын
@@ulfdanielsen6009 it's the inscription on The One Ring 💀
@Nebuloid1
7 ай бұрын
"Krimpatul" is now my new favourite word.
@HooDatDonDar
7 ай бұрын
But you have to remember, I was very very drunk. I love rowley birkin, QC
@joelogjam9163
Жыл бұрын
"Didn't feel a thing, because I was VERY, VERY drunk."
@eleveneleven572
Жыл бұрын
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@chrisshing8697
Жыл бұрын
THIS was the comment I was looking for 😂😂😂
@ChemoTherapy87
Жыл бұрын
CAIRO!
@d2vmusic
Жыл бұрын
"Lorry load of interesting cheeses".
@JasonAllenSomerset
Жыл бұрын
"The whole thing was made entirely out of rubber..."
@zacharyphelps6555
3 ай бұрын
he makes some good points, now if only we knew what they were.
@frankgillet2752
Жыл бұрын
I once sat next to an old man on an airplane and he spoke exactly like this. He was such a sweet gentleman and was telling me about his son but I really struggled to understand what he was saying. The worst part is that I would answer and he'd look at me like I was crazy (because I probably didn't answer what he was actually asking me), which is really funny to me because he must have thought that I was the one that was making communication difficult. I think about him often, he probably thought I didn't' speak English very well, haha.
@Moamanly
8 ай бұрын
He probably just thought you were American!😁
@Urdatorn
6 ай бұрын
😂
@user-je2ny1mq1o
5 ай бұрын
🪞
@greatbriton8425
5 ай бұрын
You picked up his spirit, that is why you remember him. Our speech is infused with our spirit, and the rare heart which is purified is a pleasure to listen to and striking to the heart because it speaks of heaven.
@kronk9418
5 ай бұрын
@@MoamanlyRent free.
@shogun7422
10 ай бұрын
Me: "Wait--there are sounds, it's some form of gibberish, I can't understand it." My friend: "There are few who can. The language is that of Tolkien, which I will not utter here."
@HooDatDonDar
7 ай бұрын
Deserves way more upvotes. But you got a host heart, anyway.
@shogun7422
7 ай бұрын
@@HooDatDonDar Thanks!
@Plasmastorm73_n5evv
5 ай бұрын
He was speaking perfectly clear English to me.
@VacantSpirit
28 күн бұрын
It's amazing you can hear how well Sir Ian imitated Tolkiens way of speaking
@archiemustachie3693
4 ай бұрын
I can understand him perfectly
@professorakiba434
11 ай бұрын
Hard to believe that Ian McKellan developed his version of Gandalf from these videos of Tolkien. He wished to bring Tolkien to life as Gandalf and mimicked his speech patterns perfectly. Watching this archival footage, I can see Gandalf as I watch Tolkien speak. Wow!
@Mithreniel
9 ай бұрын
Wow I didn't know that, that's cool.
@guileniam
9 ай бұрын
They sound nothing alike
@trevorn2351
8 ай бұрын
I've seen tons of behind the scenes, making of videos, cast interviews, etc., and I've never, ever heard that, and I don't believe it's true. You have a source or did you just make that up?
@Masterofchodes
7 ай бұрын
@@trevorn2351 Source: Lol trust me bro
@Powerhaus88
7 ай бұрын
That's not true.
@Tribrachidiumheraldicum
Жыл бұрын
L video. He's just old and kind of mumbling, you can still understand 100% of what he's saying.
@AndrewB221
2 ай бұрын
Think back to WW1 Times and how completely different everything was compared to the ‘70’s at his old Age here! Everything was completely different
@noiselesspatient
5 ай бұрын
This is obviously Paul Whitehouse impersonating Rowley Birkin QC impersonating JRR.
@ramonfry9673
Жыл бұрын
He's speaking the same language as Winston Churchill.
@Mr.deacle
Жыл бұрын
*Same conlang. Some form of elvish I think, I can't understand it.
@engery213
Жыл бұрын
@@Mr.deacle the video isnt made in 1924 its way to clear probably 1950
@punbug4721
Жыл бұрын
r/technicallythetruth
@Somnogenesis
Жыл бұрын
@@engery213 He mentions (well, mumbles) something about 1972 in the video. If it had been made in 1950ish Tolkien would've looked a lot younger and it wouldn't be in colour!
@engery213
Жыл бұрын
@@Somnogenesis oh i dont really know what its about anyways i thought it was in 1940 or 1950
@TAURON85
Жыл бұрын
I mean, I'm a Hungarian who lives in the UK for 10+ years now and can perfectly understand 98% of what he said. 😀
@eeeh9693
Жыл бұрын
I got it all and I’ve never met an Englishman
@TAURON85
Жыл бұрын
@@eeeh9693 Lol Ok, then you're lying. 😀
@erynn9968
Жыл бұрын
After 10+ years you start your sentence with ‘I mean’ without a prior question XD
@SenterSen
Жыл бұрын
@@TAURON85 Well you seem like a big jerk
@JustCoNa
Жыл бұрын
@@erynn9968 I mean, as a native I do that all the time
@nunyanunya4147
5 ай бұрын
"The English. they invented the bloody damn language. would be nice if they spoke it now and then?'
@nicholass5621
4 ай бұрын
sounds more coherent than the US president
@EatSleepEmpire
Жыл бұрын
A Tolkien never mumbles. He says precisely what he means to.
@marendur
Жыл бұрын
I see you're a man of culture as well 😌
@kotarojujo2737
Жыл бұрын
its also funny becuse this quote actually Peter Jackson's invention
@alexanderSydneyOz
7 ай бұрын
Personally, to my ear, he was a serious mumbler.
@dabalma
Жыл бұрын
if Tolkien says a word that it's not in the Oxford Dictionary, it means that the Oxford Dictionary is not complete
@jeremykraenzlein5975
Жыл бұрын
But I thought that he wrote the Oxford Dictionary. Shouldn't he have done something about that?
@HO-bndk
Жыл бұрын
No, I think you must mean Shakespeare.
@marcinbednarski1207
4 ай бұрын
this is what english would sound to you if you didnt know it
@leeroy5529
Ай бұрын
This is the verbal version of a doctor’s signature.
@MaxMusterman-wo9nu
Жыл бұрын
Directed by Christopher Nolan
@jackflannigan5749
Жыл бұрын
That's how to create the Elvish language. They made younglings listen to him speak and made them write what they heard.
@midnightblue3285
Жыл бұрын
I don't think he created any new langauge, the langauge is allready existed, he was studied the ancient english and all the europe folklore and he is created a langage what was existed before too..
@moritamikamikara3879
Жыл бұрын
@@midnightblue3285 Yeah uhhhh... No.
@midnightblue3285
Жыл бұрын
@@moritamikamikara3879 He is a freemason
@zxoko
2 ай бұрын
you make me feel smart for being able to interpret this entire video
@raiden1766
22 күн бұрын
I grew up with my Grandfather, who spoke basically in the same way so I was able to piece together exactly what he said without even trying Love you Grandpa, miss you
@Heartogold42
9 ай бұрын
What you meant to say is: "I'm not English enough to understand an Englishman speaking English."
@joshrichards9121
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like my dear Grandad, God rest his soul.
@Gandalfthegeneral
2 ай бұрын
So that’s where ozzy got his accent
@rkeistudio
2 күн бұрын
This is what it feels like when you watch something without subtitles
@redneckhippy2020
8 ай бұрын
Reminds me of my grandmother, who spoke seven languages. It was quite entertaining to listen to hear speak to one of her sisters on the phone. One paragraph of speech could have words or sentences from half a dozen languages.
@L_back
7 ай бұрын
We should always speak it
@koneko-2562
Жыл бұрын
He is actually speaking normal sentences, it’s actually quite similar to a dialect you may hear in the Cotswolds and other rural areas. Generally in the older generations, if you want proof slow the play speed and turn the sound up.
@rob.j.g
5 ай бұрын
Where is Cotswolds in relation to Gondor?
@Zuurkool1
5 ай бұрын
I did, and he skips words and talks gibberish here and there. I did flully understand him, but let's not act like he isn't speaking weirdly and just dropping words randomly.
@mfaizsyahmi
5 ай бұрын
I wish there's the play speed button IRL just as I wish there's subtitles in Japan.
@jzero4813
5 ай бұрын
If you can't understand this then it is more likely that it is YOU who does not understand English.
@renacleerican7824
7 ай бұрын
I am French and I understood ALMOST everything Sir Tolkien said. I am proud.
@user-ol7bt4wp1j
6 ай бұрын
Shows how much french latin influence English has
@renacleerican7824
6 ай бұрын
@@user-ol7bt4wp1j True. When I look at a French/English dictionnary, most of the words are similar.
@vilentman111
Жыл бұрын
So bizarre that this man came up with every single little bit of detail that we know about middle earth, and he has that stored all in his head. Quite amazing what one human's brain is capable of
@michi9955
Жыл бұрын
@aya-lq9on lol
@samwallaceart288
Жыл бұрын
I like how his son looked at all his individual maps and doodles and took the liberty of combining it into the Middle-Earth world-map we all know now, and the old man was like "I had never thought of that" and stated using it himself
@Somnogenesis
Жыл бұрын
There's one astoundingly apt reviewer's quote, reproduced I think on the covers of some editions of the books - specifically _The Silmarillion_ I believe - that perfectly sums this up. It goes something along these lines: "How did one man, given little over half a century, become the creative equivalent of a people?"
@Somnogenesis
Жыл бұрын
@@samwallaceart288 Is that so, that Christopher (I presume) essentially spot-welded the familiar Middle-earth map together from bits JRR had only got separately until then? That's amazing if true!
@HO-bndk
Жыл бұрын
Because he plagiarized it all from, Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic mythology.
@Parthuran
9 ай бұрын
This is the first time I've ever heard his voice and its exactly how I thought it would sound. Similar to what I thought Bilbo's would sound like too
@peterjames6620
5 ай бұрын
".....but of course, I was terribly, terribly drunk"
@MitchellMeyer702
Ай бұрын
“You went too deep, professor Tweed Pants. We don’t need the backstory on every fucking tree branch.”
@nagoalc6242
Жыл бұрын
This man will never stop being an inspiration for me. Such, wisdom, with the experience to back it up. And, the ability to dream, in spite of it all. Rest in peace with your son and wife, professor. You earned it.
@tavps
Жыл бұрын
he was a racist, a racist is an inspiration for you?
@khakikohii
11 ай бұрын
@@tavpsoh dear he we go again
@susanrussell1422
11 ай бұрын
@@tavpshow was he racist?
@tavps
11 ай бұрын
@@susanrussell1422 he hated black people and created the orcs based on them
@NicholasHEADSHOT
11 ай бұрын
@@susanrussell1422he liked to go very fast
@pickledegg1989
Жыл бұрын
"I'm afraid, I was very... Very drunk."
@tomsmith239
7 ай бұрын
British people insist that this is how English is supposed to be spoken
@bitterthenu7278
4 күн бұрын
Its not the fact that he is an Englishmen, its how fast he talks and how he is mumbling
@designate_om
Жыл бұрын
"...and I'm afraid I was very, very drunk"
@adam908
Жыл бұрын
Let me say at once that, er, owing to the casualties in the War and various other things, there were very few people to elect. / It's a pity you couldn't be here in the springtime when that tree there wouldn't look sad. It'd be covered with leaves, you see, it'd look old, um, but not sad. And these, with all the limes, obviously, however old they are, they're a lovely green in the, in spring. I suppose I have actually, in some simple-minded form of longing, actually would like to, I should've liked to be able to make contact with a tree and find out what it feels about things. / I first began seriously to invent languages about, um, when I was thirteen or fourteen. I've never stopped, really.
@viviananas
Жыл бұрын
shame on you
@fizwizzle1989
Жыл бұрын
I actually think it was a very fast “I should have liked to have been able to make contact…”
@homeautomation2662
2 ай бұрын
I speak the same way after I smoke the halflings leaf.
@IgnitedMHK
2 ай бұрын
My 3 years of flying to study in a uni in london was all for this moment
@JJ-jh6dk
Жыл бұрын
You can really see how Tolkien was inspired both by nature and of historical events when writing, just from the way he casually describes the trees here.
@iiiiiiiiiiiiii7192
7 ай бұрын
"covered with leaves and shit"
@thefantasyreview8709
7 ай бұрын
I'm Australian, I can understand him.
@Jerrythegourd
2 ай бұрын
Can you blame him? He fought in two world wars and devoted half his life to making a fantasy world with lore as deep as the sun is wide
@EtherealEmperor
Жыл бұрын
Seems pretty coherent to me
@wallacewilliams535
Жыл бұрын
new school of English-speakers.... if it's not immediately and perfectly intelligible, it's gibberish. MY opinion/accusation carries more weight than the credibility of those whom I accuse.
@folk-comrade
Жыл бұрын
@@wallacewilliams535New school of English? Please. Even in Tolkien's time he would not have been considered a clear speaker. The irony is that you are pulling Ben Shapiro arguments for the purposes of defending a man who does not need you defending him because you were offended by the mere notion that someone would find the excerpt above difficult to understand.
@wallacewilliams535
Жыл бұрын
@@folk-comrade ach, zo! ze furor raises it's grammar not-see head. cherry-picked decontextualized phrases do not a consensus make. good to see you going for the ad hominem right away. tells me that you have no argument. how Neo-colonial of you to not only claim the privilege of speaking for those of "Tolkien's time", but to show your intolerant anti-semitism as a first line of attack, aaannnd "white knight" one of your fellow Maoists. your staff is broken.
@RuthvenMurgatroyd
Жыл бұрын
@@folk-comrade Ben Shapiro arguments?
@hell1942
Жыл бұрын
@@RuthvenMurgatroyd yeah he just revealed that he watches Ben shapiro, since he would have to in order to know whatever that is,,,,, That's like an instant L right there
@ricardosavagestrike
3 ай бұрын
He's doing the pipe trick...expert level, without even smoking from a pipe.
@Klausmaus5869
5 ай бұрын
I’m from America and I understand him fine. He does seem to swallow words here and there, but he actually speaks very eloquently.
@QBiks
10 ай бұрын
With this accent, you really can't understand what he's Tolkien about.
@OlMrEllis
Жыл бұрын
He speaking some form of old Tolkeinish I think
@pengyang4007
2 ай бұрын
Guys, he was clearly speaking Black Speech.
@colinhertz
3 ай бұрын
He was an Englishman speaking English. If others are so used to their local dialects they can't keep up with proper English, it's their problem, not ours
@zaidlacksalastname4905
Жыл бұрын
I love Tolkien. My man made his best friend a talking tree (CS Lewis is Fangorn) as a show of appreciation and respect. Glad his legacy lives on.
@gabrielesolletico6542
9 ай бұрын
What, really? CS Lewis is Fangorn/Treebeard?
@neilwyatt3375
8 ай бұрын
Somebody has been smoking Old Toby a little too intensively.
@zaidlacksalastname4905
7 ай бұрын
finest weed in the southfarthing@@neilwyatt3375
@_M_O_E_
Жыл бұрын
I was once asked by an American friend what language i was speaking (to an English friend), my response was "English"
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