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I’m gonna be completely honest, at first I saw the Fake ski ball and I got mad, but then I saw that crazy cutting thing oscillating and I got really excited. Thank you for posting this.
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That looks like it was fun but I don’t think those trash bags were very effective. The only bad thing about using spray whip cream is that it’s very runny, and it starts to stink pretty quickly.
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In '75 I remember DS on tv : 'how you'll know the greenhouse effect (biospheric destruction)' is by changing weather patterns. Smart scientist, like other Al Gores of the day. Population consumerism and emissions - control these 3 by laws and you have the beginning of resetting the biosphere.
But Tolkien's works is absolutely about the real world. It's not a commentary on a particular historical period or particular historical events. But as all mythology, it has what Tolkien himself called "applicability". It deals with the human conditions. Which is very real but universal and trans-historical.
For instance, Tolkien lived through two world wars -- he fought in the first and his son fought in the second. LOTR is absolutely about those wars -- and about all wars. In fact, about "war" as a part of human existence. As such it will have much applicability to WWI and WWII. And very much to the Russian Rape of Ukraine.
I have a question about tree rings, the CO2 fertilization effect, and calibrating tree ring size to temperature. I understand that tree growth speed depends on a number of factors, like nitrogen in the soil, precipitation, and temperature. However, nowadays CO2 in the atmosphere is above 400 ppm while in the pre-industrial era, CO2 was below 300 ppm. Higher CO2 leads to faster tree growth and thus thicker tree rings. Assuming nitrogen in the soil and precipitation are equal, if a tree ring today is XX millimeters thick, and you find a medieval tree ring that is exactly the same XX millimeters thick, then you can't simply assume the temperatures now and then were equal, because the medieval tree ring thickness is based on warmth alone while the present-day tree ring thickness is based on warmth plus the extra CO2 fertilization effect. So if you equalize the two and use a present-day thermometer to assign a temperature to that thickness, then the medieval temperature will be artificially low compared to today, which leads to an artificial hockey stick that misrepresents the temperature. So how do you calibrate tree ring size to temperature?
As someone with Welsh family, I watched the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings and, especially when Arwen is speaking, it sounds very much like Welsh. My grandmother's name was Olwen and my mum's boyfriend actually called her Arwen when he met her 😂
Always have been a geology fan I'd love to be there with you but I look about your age but no way could I keep up with your pace you must be a monster on the trails and love to meet you someday sir
29:42 - As a Tolkien linguist : the sound changes are not b > m or m > b, but mb > m, mb > b. And mb- at the start of words, does that remind you of some real life languagages? Bloemfontein is not too far from Lesotho!
beautiful presentation, i wish it was higher quality like 720p and the audio is often distorted as well, any chance you guys could upload a higher quality video/audio wise? thank you
Just because the maps are "backwards" doesn't mean the civilizations in Middle Earth aren't symbolic of real world historic civilizations. Even it's unconsciously the struggle of Gondor,Rhohan,the Shire & the Men of the West against the Haradrim & Easternlings represents the constant threat Western civilization has felt from Mongols, Moors,Huns,Arabs & such. It wouldn't be as interesting or clever if Tolkien flat out made these symbols clear but the fact anyone who reads Tolkien sees these symbols & easily get that underlying message. Tolkien was conveying his thoughts & feelings towards these groups
Great lecture! To be fair, the notion that Tolkien was not writing about the real world is taking his own claims about his works being applicable to stuff rather than allegories of stuff for a fact. While I grant him that he did not mean Sauron to be a symbol of Hitler or Saruman of Stalin, that he did not write about WWII in such a simple allegorical manner, he obviously _did_ write about WWII, too. (So much that people who see the movies think about the Ents only joining the fight after seeing the attack on Fangorn as Tolkien's jab at the US not entering the war before Pearl Harbor, until they find out it was not like that in the books, at all.) He wrote about helping your neighbouring countries, he wrote about rising to the challenge of a threat to everybody, even when you're not immediately in danger or you put your own neck out for other people, he wrote about PTSD of returning veterans (or maybe more generally the impossible return to innocence.) And I would argue it's highly unlikely that he just put those things in there to make the story feel real, but without any intent to reflect on the issues. I'm quite positive that a decent part of the Lord of the Rings actually _is_ Tolkien making sense of his own experiences and sorting out his own moral coordinate system after some of the things he's witnessed. He doesn't just make Gandalf argue against the death penalty, because it's something a wizard would say. Tolkien actually means it! But yes, Tolkien didn't write simple allegories that can only be applied a single series of historical events. He actually did, what every great and relevant story has ever done, since the Greek epics or even before: He's dealt with the big human interest topics (or topoi) that have forever been relevant to humans: Love, hate, ambition, jealousy, treason, friendship, loyalty, fear, grief, doubt, etc. etc. These are the bold strokes of Tolkien's art and I would think they are as old as the first stories people have told each other and will always resonate with an audience, because everybody can relate. (And actually he did exactly that, on purpose, because he _wanted_ to create something like the Greek epics for the English.) And also wrt. Tolkien and his topics being modern, I'm a little hesitant. You can interpret Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in a psychoanalytical manner. Does that mean Freud stole his ideas from her? Of course not. It just means, Shelley had a deep, fundamental understanding of the human condition that holds true to later scientific discoveries. Likewise, I don't personally believe Tolkien really wrote about PTSD or schizophrenia. He wrote about the things that we from our current perspective of labelling everything in terms of some medical diagnosis might interpret as that (that's the reader rewriting the story). But he wrote about people and what happens to them in certain situations, and he knew about returning from a horrible war and trying to find a way back to normality but being unable to unsee all the things you saw. (And the return to innocence or to Eden is not a new topic, at all.) Or about being torn in two so much as to drive one to the brink of madness (or beyond.) His love for nature might seem modern, but it can just as well be interpreted as a conservative view on the second industrial revolution. If such concerns had been totally unfounded and that second industrial revolution had turned out just great, maybe we would not have environmentalists, today, and that part of the Lord of the Rings would feel embarrassingly dated.
Late economist Lyndon Larouche clearly demonstrated that the man-made global warming is a lie created, financed and promoted by the British Imperial Elites as a tool to enslave, control and reduce the world population. It is a genocidal policy.
This guy repeats Tolkien's claim that there is no allegory in LoTR, but goes on to talk about how Eastern hordes invading the beautiful West is a familiar theme to Europeans. This just comes across as naive. And the fact that he speaks with a very excited tone of voice doesn't make him right
