Stephen Colbert talks D&D and LOTR on Conan O'Brien

[Agent Oracle]

I read The Simarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien once.

Seriously, i read "The Simarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien". The cover was as far as I got before I fell asleep.

Though, it takes a big man to admit getting Geek-own3d.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I read The Simarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien once.

Seriously, i read "The Simarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien". The cover was as far as I got before I fell asleep.

Not everyone's got what it takes. Don't feel bad

 

[LightPhoenix]

Naw, he's said he never gamed, but he admits to doing stuff just as geeky.

Yeah, just saw the interview, first time I've ever heard him semi-definitively answer one way or the other.

 

[Slife]

I read the entire Simarillion in third grade.

I don't remember any of it, but I read it.

 

[ChristianW]

That was such a great interview. It's nice to know that (according to Time, at least) a D&D player is one of the 100 most influential people in the world. And he's sandwiched right between Katie and Bono.

Hoody hoo!

 

[Swordsage]

I read the entire Simarillion in third grade.

I don't remember any of it, but I read it.

The chapter on the fifth battle, the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, has to be some of the most stirring and evocative high fantasy prose ever penned. Awesome.

The Swordsage

 

[Mark CMG]

I'm an English baccalaureate and a great lover of Tolkein

Not even an English baccalaureate can convince me that Tolkein was gay. Not that there's anything non-literary about it.

 

[Desdichado]

I read the Silmarillion the first time in 6th grade, and didn't find it difficult. Sure, parts of it were tedious, but other parts of it were wonderful.

Or course, I also read translations of the Iliad and Beowulf about that same time, so I guess that's what I was kinda comparing it to.

 

[Talgian]

I'm not sure if it's more sad that Colbert said all that stuff on national television, or that I understood every word. He didn't even call Quenya just "elvish" but rather what it really is, "high elvish." The man who does that is my hero.

-Talgian

 

[the black knight]

Beowulf is far more readable than the Simarillion. Maybe Tolkien needs a better translator.