A child points, and is taught a word. Tree. Later, he learns to distinguish this tree from...
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A child points, and is taught a word. Tree. Later, he learns to distinguish this tree from all the others. He learns its particular name. He plays under the tree. He dances around it. Stands beneath its branches, for shade or shelter. He kisses under it, sleeps under it, he weds under it. He marches past it on his way to war, and limps past it on his journey home. A king is said to have hidden in this tree. A spirit may dwell within its bark. Its distinctive leaves are carved onto the tombs and monuments of his landlords. Its wood might have built the galleons that saved his ancestors from invasion. And all this, the general and the specific, the national and the personal, all this, he knows, and feels, and summons somehow, however faintly, with the utterance of a single sound. 'Oak.' Saxon word. Proto-Germanic. Cognates in Old Norse. 'Eik.' Language is never nonsense. Language is meaning. History. Layer upon layer upon layer. And a word without meaning is -- what? Merely a sound.
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A child points
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and is taught a word
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Tree
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Later he learns to distinguish this tree
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from all the others
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He learns its particular name
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He plays under the tree
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He dances around it
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Stands beneath its branches for shade or shelter
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He kisses under it he sleeps under it
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he weds under it
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He marches past it on his way to war
Clip duration: 36 seconds
Views: 691
Timestamp in movie: 01h 11m 20s
Uploaded: 21 February, 2022
Genres: biography, drama, romance
Summary: The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.
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00:53 What's it about
00:19 A word isn't beautiful just because of its sound
00:28 What you need to understand Tolkien you
00:49 To love someone
00:23 The way you follow the rhythms of the poetry
00:43 You are the most remarkable spirit I have ever met
00:12 Remember how mother made us kiss the trees
00:36 Let us begin Ronald
00:09 That might be a beautiful word
00:17 I can die in any way the Fates choose
00:06 It's Greek in a way The love of comrades
00:14 I have a passion for Wagner
00:29 There's a word in old German
00:24 Wagner wrote it in four acts
00:10 Of course operas can be considered long and laborious
00:13 I let myself believe
00:07 Languages never steal
00:36 Professor
00:13 Hail Earendel
00:35 Boys listen to me