Christopher Tolkien VIDEO interview compilation - CleanCut

Christopher Tolkien video interview compilation - CleanCut edition

GB Smith wrote to JRRT in 1916:
"...may you say the things I have tried to say long after I am not there to say them..."

Thank You CJRT for taking up the torch after JRRT.

42:28 CJRT reads The Grey Havens
58:16 CJRT in France 2019

39:17 Priscilla Tolkien reads "Leaf by Niggle"

Credit / Source:
- "A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien" docu (1996)
- "Secrets of Middle-earth" docu (2003)
- "Aubusson weaves Tolkien" (2019)
- These 3 videos are the only known/released footage of CJRT to date.

Baillie Tolkien (CJRT's wife) recalls in 2012:
“During all that time, I watched him type with three fingers on an old machine that
had belonged to his father....It was a literary gold mine, but also a painstaking job and
left Christopher exhausted, not to say depressed. But never mind, he would not stop there."

Other paper interviews with CJRT:

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[erikbuysbricks]

All fans of Tolkien are pretty lucky his son was this involved in his fathers works, and after his fathers passing worked hard to give us more. He could just as easily have not cared about any of it.

[giber]

Christopher was the only one of J.R.R.`s children, who deeply loved his fathers work. He has given us so many books to find the deep and vast history Tolkien had and from the unfinished works, like the Silmarillion and the letters of Tolkien. He published the 12 books on the LotR`s and the Silmarillion`s constant additions and changes that J.R.R. made throughout his life. I am sorry, I am having a hard time putting my thought to word. Without Christopher being so eager, and supportive of the entire writings of the Master.

[cally]

I also had a tear in my eye, when I heard Christopher explain, in French, about how he'd been worried about his father in the night, when he was very small, and after he went downstairs and found him, he cried, and left a tear on his father's painting. And his father kindly did not fuss, but painted over it. And this was the same painting that he had come to France to see, when he was an old man, so many years later.

Perhaps the point is, outside of all the vast achievements of JRR's lore, is that his published stories are very often about very human moments like that one.

[pphedup]

9:39 If Gandalf "had the ring, he would be FAR worse than Sauron, because he would be righteous and self-righteous." What an incisive insight...coercion, even for good ends!

[JG_]

Christopher was great in his way, and clearly a great son. Grateful for his contribution to share his father’s legendarium

[Querencia]

J.R.R.’s daughter Priscilla: One of Priscilla’s greatest contributions to the preservation of her father’s work, came through her years of engagement with the Tolkien Society, a membership organization and charity devoted to promoting the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
While her brother Christopher, who was known to fans as the editor of Tolkien’s posthumous works, lived in France for most of his life, Priscilla remained in Oxford, and became engaged in fan communities. Christopher was only able to attend one event by the Tolkien Society during his lifetime: the 1992 Centenary Conference. Priscilla, on the other hand, was an annual presence at the Tolkien Society and became particularly known for generously hosting fans at her home. She was also the family’s photographic archivist of her father’s works. She went through all of her fathers papers and preserved them at Oxford.

[kevinrussell]

This, like all the times we get to listen to Christopher, is wonderful. Yes, Christoher was THE star of the children, the one who loved unconditionally and understood what his father was all about.

[peterjobovic]

Christopher was a co-author of many lines in the world of Arda, during JRR's lifetime and still gave all the credit to his father.

[brutusmagnus]

This was such a pleasure to watch and deeply warmed my spirit to hear Christopher recount his father's work, which has left an indelible impression on my experience in this wonderful and at times terrible, mysterious world.

[cagrigurkanli]

Thanks a lot for sharing this! How great Christopher Tolkien was! I watched the final section with tears in my eyes. What a way to greet the last episode of one’s life. May he rest in peace. ❤

[ChrisFenly]

I could listen to this man talk all day, I wish he were still with us. 😣

[thomasstevens]

Thank you for publishing this interview. I dream of places in Middle-Earth to visit. He was incredible.

[eniigma]

Thank you, Christopher, for not being another Brian Herbert. What a legend :)

[bri_____]

The discussions about a "secondary world", remind me of carl jungs work

[hermitage]

8:00 onwards some counts
Tolkien and nietzche werent so apart here

[IrishTechnicalThinker]

I do find it funny and ironically hilarious that Tolkien disliked allegory being placed onto his writing. Then Christopher Tolkien goes on to describe everything his father wrote into allegory saying The ring is the machine. I disagree his analysis on his own father's work because Tolkien said the ring can be anything, lust, greed, anger, hatred, envy and all desires of men and women. Not just one thing.

[daveythesearcher]

I know they are father & son but my they sound similar. I must learn more.

[mikearchibald]

"I came here to escape my name and my doom"
"Your doom lies in yourself, not in your name"

thats from the Children of Hurin and sums up so many aspects of Tolkien, in particular I think, the machine. Electric cars predated the internal combustion engine and much of the devastation of the world has been about oil and gas, and that engine. The tyranny didn't come from the machine, really had little to do with it. Its systems of organizations and hierarchies that are the problem, and as such much of the very structure of Tolkiens world is the very structure he fears rather than machines. While 'bad people' tend to use machines, the ultimate 'evil' is not a machine, it is magic.

[julian.i.m]

ahh yes...i totally agree with what ever you just said good Sir 46:30

[pspboy]

Its amazing that without Christopher Tolkien, we would have a less appealing and developed Arda.