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Tolkien in Oxford

Post by chris63 on Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:33 am


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Post by Pettytyrant101 on Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:00 am

Thanyou for that Chris. Highly enjoyable watch. Shame they only thought to get the ideas of those at Oxford (that lot are running this country now!!) and one angry working class guy. And Tolkien himself comes across as a rather loveable old eccentirc don, funny how some people seem suited to their role in life.
And nice to see even Tolkien can make mistakes trying to write in elvish. Very Happy

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Post by Eldorion on Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:03 pm

That was really wild Very Happy Thanks for posting it, chris!

Pettytyrant101 wrote:and one angry working class guy


What made you think he was working class? I assumed they included him to show the intellectual anti-escapism response to Tolkien that cropped up at Oxford and elsewhere when the books became popular (and that is still carried on today by people who think art or entertainment should serve some greater "purpose").

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Post by Pettytyrant101 on Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:10 pm

Time period mainly. His manner of speaking, his stance on Tolkien's work are all very common of a working class leftwing intillectual type that was prolific during the 60' and especially the 70's in the UK (asuming we are talking about the same guy, with the moustache -if that narrows it down much). If he wasn't of that class himself then he was using their language.

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Post by Eldorion on Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:15 pm

I think we're talking about the same guy, and you would certainly no more about that than me. Smile I suppose I was a bit hasty in associating him with the modern American (faux-)intellectual/entertainment snobbery-ists who I'm used to. Razz

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Post by Pettytyrant101 on Sat Jul 30, 2011 4:20 pm

Well he was better than the upper class sympathisar who managed to miss the point and see the peoples of Mordor as the repressed masses whilt the elitist hobbits live the good life. (bit of class guilt seeping out there! )Very Happy

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Re: Tolkien in Oxford

Post by Tinuviel on Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:43 am

That was awesome!!! He even mentioned my quote below! I love how quirky he was; he seemed to be in his head the whole time. And that guy with the glasses seemed scared of an escape to me. I laughed at the Gandalf for president pin Laughing crazy hippies....

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Re: Tolkien in Oxford

Post by Saradoc on Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:22 pm

Watched this a while back on the BBC archive. Here's a link for anyone interested- obviously you won't be interested in the Tolkien video as Chris has put the video up- but they have quite a lot of videos and stuff on other authors who you may be interested in!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/12237.shtml

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Re: Tolkien in Oxford

Post by Orwell on Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:17 pm

chris63 wrote:With video

http://vimeo.com/27000381


Wow! I say: WOW! How do I miss these things? (All through the joy of watching this I had a sick feeling in my stomach thinking about what PJ did to Lord of the Rings - and what he's going to do to The Hobbit).

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