Justin Taylor has kindly put together a collection of interviews and interactions with J R R Tolkien--all open source.
The collection entails:
First broadcast on BBC 2 on March 30, 1968: “John Izzard meets with JRR Tolkien at his home, walking with him through the Oxford locations that he loves while hearing the author’s own views about his wildly successful high-fantasy novels. Tolkien shares his love of nature and beer and his admiration for ‘trenchermen’ in this genial and affectionate programme. The brief interviews with Oxford students that are dotted throughout reveal the full range of opinions elicited by ‘The Lord of the Rings’, from wild enthusiasm to mild contempt”:The protestations and pseudo-critiques from self-styled Marxist students are hilariously hide-bound. Tolkien's quotation of Simone de Beauvoir on death at the end is strikingly memorable.
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