Liv Tyler Debuts Her "Lord of the Rings" Elvish Language | Late Night with Conan O’Brien 

She sounds a lot like Jen from The IT Crowd

@@maxdamagus yah Jen has that same airy quality to it as well. My fave british show too!

@@maxdamagus Yeah, are you sure? *Ich bin ein Nerd*

I'm not convinced she isn't an actual elf

Her voice reminds me of a less cartoonish Bonnie from Family Guy

Supposedly neither did she. while everyone else committed to their roles she couldn't be bothered in learning the sword work and they had to tweak things because of it

@@Mr2greys Jesus😅 I don’t know the context of that but why the hell does it matter? She committed to everything else her role required as Arwen. You complain because she is a woman, be for real.

​@@Mr2greysshe learned alot from elvish singing

oh my goodness I know its funny watching this and no one realizing the impact that movie was going to have

@@Mr2greys it's a good thing because Arwen was not supposed to be figthting with a sword..

He was a linguistic professor.

He fully made several in his world.

Linguistics* professors don't sit around making up languages.@@naazahs9045

The cool thing is, he made(of course he continued to work on it through the years) the languages completely separately and before he was even inspired to write the books. In a letter he sent, he said, “I find the construction and the interrelation of the languages an aesthetic pleasure in itself, quite apart from The Lord of the Rings, of which it was/is in fact independent.”

Yes ! not everyone from Birmingham is thick.!!

I could be going through the worse thing possible, and hearing her voice would make everything better 🫶🏻

To bad they're dudes tho

Anyone asks what a woman is, just say Liv Tyler

​@@ruzd4real374 wat

It does sound like Welsh

No definitely Irish which is softer

@@johnlongford1734 There are definitely some sounds in Elvish (Specifically Sindarin) that are not in Irish. For example, I heard a TH sound in this clip, and the Welsh LL sound which isn't in Irish. However, the real answer is that Tolkien was a linguist and a polyglot, and he learned both Irish and Welsh, as well as some other languages like Latin, Norse and Finnish. Tolkien only studied a tiny bit of Irish, and was much more familiar with Welsh. Tolkien claimed that this language in the clip was mostly inspired by the *sound* of Welsh, which he considered the most beautiful language in the world. Grammatically, this language a lot in common with Germanic and Celtic languages.

@@tjstarr2960more Finnish

Tolkien would not have appreciated the Gaelic comparison. He liked the Welsh language, but apparently, he personally did not find the Gaelic language (of which there are Irish and Scottish dialects), which is from the same Celtic language family, to be a euphonious language.

And she is still just as gorgeous. Also, Sarah Jessica Parker is more horse than Liv Tyler. But she's still a bangin' horse.

"It was a little TOO good!" People didn't get that!😂

Sindarin

I watched them in the theaters back then and I don't remember anyone thinking they were anything but big blockbusters

Everyone know they’d be big and catch on. Had everything guys wanted and for women it had Orlando Bloom

@@LisaZoe86 Blockbusters.... sure but still genre films. This was before the nerd renaissance. Arguably these films helped to create that. At this point in history people were still deep into nerd shaming.

@@legendofzelda2324 And was also solidly a nerd movie. Listen to that audience. Silence. Even nerds werent sure whether to be excited about it yet. We take for granted that there was a time before the nerd rennaisance when any movie like this was expected to sell loads of tickets to teenage boys but wasnt expected to be a must-see film.

@@patreekotime4578 Exactly. I was a nerd who was excited for the movie and was hopeful that it would be good, but there was still this apprehension because nerd culture hadn't been embraced yet. I remember sitting in the theater before the movie started and I was praying that it wasn't going to end up being embarrassing, as if all eyes were on me and if the movie was bad or cheesy, that somehow it would be a reflection on me and my nerd brethren, like we were outcasts of society or something, lol. I even remember an article in that shit-rag _Entertainment Weekly_ in 2002 that was about _Attack of the Clones_ and the jackass that wrote it started it by saying something like, "If you're anyone who is anyone, then _Attack of the Clones_ is the best movie of the past year, unless you're some sissy Lord of the Rings fan." He was on the wrong side of history on that one.

right? just give her a phonebook and I'd be all ears

@@victorhugomartinez5321 lol

Watch Reunited apart LOTR she talked a lot!

It sounded magical.. and when she said 'Elvish baby!'. it was crazy how she changed tone. did you noticed that?

​@@michs5345 "Elvis, baby...." And there are two Elvish languages in existence now, Sindarin, which Liv spoke, and Quenya, which Sir Christopher Lee was chanting in when, as Saruman, he sent that storm against the Fellowship in "Fellowship of the Ring".

Agree. She is so soft-spoken. This is so nit-picky of course, but I wish she kept her natural speaking tone for the movies instead of whispering all the time.

yes, a real lady!

and the "elvis baby" iin the low pitch was cute too

I guess you missed the part where he sexualised her regarding the dress?

I see what you did here 😂

HIm and Graham Norton

@@shadowstorm_fgc Not from that side of the pond but every clip I've ever seen about Graham is great, he's very giving to his guests. I feel like if that was on my local TV instead of Conan growing up, he would have been who I'd watch

​@@shadowstorm_fgci cant stand graham norton, i like dick cavette and conan,

I'll bet you're very young, because he can't even compare to the great Johnny Carson.

Sorry, Craig Ferguson wins, then Graham Norton.

You're in better standing than me. I've never heard of it and I was around during that time.

I know. I can't imagine any body who would criticize her looks. Especially the way she looked in the movie Stealing Beauty. She was so stunning and beautiful at that age. That critic was insane.

@@lisascorp true, I've always been mesmerized with her beauty!

@frankinsaneandmyrrh1202 Yes. She is astonishingly beautiful. I have seen an occasional comment calling her plain or sort of pretty but nothing special and I can't believe they can possibly think that.

Ear porn. That's a new one. I havent heard of it before. It sums her voice accurately though

Ear porn? 🙄 You need a girlfriend…really really bad.

It's called asmr

@@19sandyman you know exactly SHIT of what I need, kid. 😉

Yeah sure. 🙄 You’re probably dressed as Gandalf right now, viciously abusing your wiener screaming YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!

Norwegian? Any links you can give about this? I’d say it is closer to Finnish language, just the way of uses cases. As a native Finnish speaker, the similarities are quite striking (even if Tolkien kinda invented words out of his own imagination): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_influences_on_Tolkien?wprov=sfti1#

Not 100 percent, but wasn't Lord of the Rings the first? I mean it makes perfect sense in hindsight. And Harry Potter followed suit by releasing a movie a year for almost 8 years (only exception being the 7th book in the series, being split in two).