Dimitris Kolovos managed to overcome a difficult time in his life thanks to Tolkien. Like Frodo, he felt the weight of the ‘ring’ he was carrying every day. Reading about the heroes and their internal struggles, what it means to fight for good, the light managed to vanquish the darkness within. His ‘Sam’ (Frodo’s loyal friend and companion) was Tolkien himself.
Interviewee: Dimitris Kolovos
Interview by: Maya Filippopoulou
Producer: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Designer: Iasonas Theofanou
Sound Editor: Dimitris Papadakis
Photos: Apostolis Karoulas
Istorima is the bigest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in their entirety in stages at www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org