The Tolkien Podcast
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You've found THE TOLKIEN PODCAST where we will explore three essential things you need to know about J.R.R. Tolkien:
1. Why he is THE author of the 20th Century
2. Why six movies made outside of Hollywood in New Zealand have earned a stunning $6 billion just at the box office from all around the globe while earning so much more money in so many other ways
3. And maybe especially, why and how the author's words changed and will continue to influence the world we all live in.
That's the launching point of the The Tolkien Podcast where as your host, my voice will be one of many you will hear from every corner of our world including scholars, artists, craftspeople, film makers, and Tolkienites, all reflecting on his works including the legendarium of Middle-earth. While we will delve deep into the past, Tolkien fans also have a lot to look forward to, as more works directly and indirectly inspired by The Professor continue to follow in his incomparable footsteps of creation.
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Episodes
17 episodes
Announced: The Tom Bombadil Movie
NEWS: "The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past" (Or The Tom Bombadil movie) has been announced as in development. Peter Jackson introduced Stephen Colbert who made the explanation of how the development process started.In this episode ...
Rings Of Power: Three Rings For Elven 'Kings'
"Three Rings for the Elven-Kings" is the start of the famous verse from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings that continues and eventually quotes the inscription on The One Ring itself, put there by Sauron to control all of the rings...
The Hobbit calendar and other calendars of Middle-earth
Tolkien is known for his language creation, but he was also masterful at creating calendars for the cultures and peoples that inhabit Middle-earth. The Shire calendar is beautifully practical - twelve months, thirty days each. Every month lines...
The 25th Anniversary of LOTR (extended) celebration in theaters vs. the 25th celebration fans deserve
In 2001, a film many thought would ruin a movie studio — a big budget fantasy film based on books by J.R.R. Tolkien — hit theaters on Dec. 19. It blew even the highest opening weekend predictions completely out of the water and went on to make ...
The Tolkien Gift Guide & Collectibles
We start with a most remarkable letter from Tolkien available on auction today, the highest-priced Tolkien artifacts / books ever sold and then launch into a gift guide with some pretty amazing discounts available now, at least in the U.S., may...
The Mythic J.R.R. Tolkien
With a stage play about J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis currently running — a popular topic — we examine how the myth maker who died more than a half century ago has himself become a myth.
What belongs in your Tolkien library?
While moving recently, to a fourth-floor apartment with no elevator, I had to carefully evaluate which book — including which Tolkien books — are worth boxing, lifting and moving and keeping, in the face of space restrictions and physical exhau...
Hidden gem: The Atlas of Middle-earth
In this episode of The Tolkien Podcast we discuss a hidden gem THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH and how it helps readers of THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE SILMARILLION enhance their reading experience. We also take a look at how its late cr...
How to successfully read Tolkien's THE SILMARILLION
J.R.R. Tolkien's THE SILMARILLION provides the cosmology behind his best know works THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT. It presents all that came before, preparing Middle-earth for the War of the Ring. But lacking the same storytelling struct...
Who is The Mouth of Sauron?
Unlike many of the servants of Middle-earth's Dark Lord, The Mouth of Sauron was a mortal man who rose through the ranks to become the general and communicator of the great flaming eye. On The Tolkien Podcast, we read from select passages and d...
What (who) is Tom Bombadil ?
Appearing only in a few pages of FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, with few mentions elsewhere, and not appearing in most adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Tom Bombadil has always captured the imagination of readers. We look at who T...
The two mysterious blue wizards of Tolkien's legendarium
Tolkien's Middle-earth included wizards, from nearly the start of THE HOBBIT published in 1937. From there The Professor included wizards Gandalf the Grey, and Radagast the Brown woven throughout his tale.When THE LORD OF THE RINGS was ...
Sir Richard Taylor co-founder of Weta Workshop
Sir Richard Taylor, knighted in 2010 and named New Zealand's Man of the Year in 2012, has won five of the six Academy Awards he was nominated for. He co-founded Weta Workshop with his now wife Tanya Rodger and is responsible for the miniatures ...
A VERY speedy tour through Middle-earth (Arda) history, with a dose of cinema history too!
In this episode of The Tolkien Podcast, The Return of the Balrog, we take a breakneck-speed look at the history of Tolkien's fantasy realm of Middle-earth and its context in Arda. The super-quick tour isn't concerned with names and dates but ai...
Every time fans argue, a Balrog gets its wings
Balrogs, creatures of shadow and flame in J.R.R. Tolkien's universe are, pardon the pun, a topic of hot debate. They are also cool, as, well, cool as hell (Udûn.) In this episode ...
In what order should I read J.R.R. Tolkien's works? + Podcast Disclaimer
J.R.R. Tolkien published a lot of material. With the help of his son and literary executor, there is a wealth of published content and commentary, including non-Middle-earth fiction, art, his essays and letters and some excellent writings about...