"Nine for mortal Men doomed to die..."

[minoanmiss]

"J.R.R Tolkien Reads The One Ring Poem" (Watch on YouTube)

*squeaky excited noises*
With so much thanks to glorious_spoon!

Comments

[mekare]

Thank you for posting this! December/January is my rewatching/rereaing LotR time...

[glorious_spoon]

:D there's something so delightful about this.

[cmcmck]

He looked very much like that when I was in correspondence with him as a nervous young undergrad about Anglo Saxon philology! :o)

[minoanmiss]

That is SO EXCITING that you correponded with him! Eeee!

[cmcmck]

At the time he was the recognised expert in the field so it just seemed a sensible thing to do.

He was very sweet and answered all my (doubtless not very well informed) questions! :o)

[hitchhiker]

ooh!

[baranduin]

Eeeeeee!!!

[mrs_d]

DAAAAAAMMMMMN thank you so much for sharing this!

time to read LotR again. (I usually do about every few years, but I've fallen behind! I think I last read it in 2013? unacceptable, mrs_d. UNACCEPTABLE.)

[julian]

Noice. (Not how I'd read it, but then, I'M NOT HIM, and in this case, the author may be technically dead, but he's still gorram relevant.)

[mdlbear]

OOOH!

Rolled 'r's. Yum! I vaguely remember hearing that, ages ago.

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

And there is always this -

Nine megs for the secretaries fair;
Seven megs for the hacklers scarce;
Five megs for the grads in smoky lairs;
Three megs for system source.
One disk to rule them all;
One disk to bind them;
One disk to hold the files,
And in the darkness grind them.

Ann O.

[minoanmiss]

giggles helplessly

[potofsoup]

wow, the cadence is so different from what I usually hear! Thanks so much for sharing, love.

[randomdreams]

I've never seen video of him before. That's cool!

[gatheringrivers]

Oooooooooo!

[redsixwing]

Here via ysabetwordsmith.

I'm excited over how he does his 'r's. How extremely cool.

[cocosmileyboo]

My inner literature fangirl is literally squeeing right now.