Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: the Noldor. Also

Show Notes.

Jared’s

Negotiations, negotiations. The SAG-AFTRA strike has a lot of

The new edition of the letters will be out in mid-November.

Holly Ordway’s book Tolkien’s

The Bandcamp Daily story on Jim Kirkwood and his early Tolkien-inspired

Some details on Starve Acre, the new

I mean if you WANT the Tolkien Gateway definition of the

Recommending the Andy Serkis reading of The

Our episode on Galadriel.

Turgon via Tolkien Gateway;

Gildor Inglorion, a truly

Míriel and

Glorfindel seems like he’s about

We discussed the Kinslaying as part of our episode on

Ah yes, The Shibboleth of

Then there’s the Oath of

Our episodes on “Leaf by Niggle”

Finduilas – again, would be good

And yes The Wheel of Time is really good. Really!

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: The Notion Club

Jared’s doodle. This is why it’s

And indeed the WGA strike did end

More from the Lord of the Rings musical

Amazon’s plans for ads for Prime

News about the Tales Of The Shire game and we are very

Yeah that whole Warren Beatty Dick Tracy thing.

There are indeed skeletons in Stardew

The Notion Club

Knowing a little about the

Socratic dialogue can

Our episode on “A Secret Vice.”

Thomas Pynchon is out there and is happy not to

That Hideous Strength

If you haven’t seen Inspector

Interstellar is trippy,

The Great Storm of 1987 as

“The Call of

C. S. Lewis’s “The Dark

Ringu aka The Ring, which of

Monty Python’s Constitutional

David Lindsay’s A Voyage to

The Grink! (RIP Twitter,

Per Ned’s closing comment, Roger Zelazny’s A Night In The Lonesome

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: The Lost Road. In

Jared’s doodle. I mean the whole

Jared’s novel The West Passage is up for

Elliott Bay Book Company is indeed a great

Deadline’s report about the rescheduled release of The War Of

A summary of Embracer’s money sillies. Well well well.

The musical revival does seem to have landed rather well! Here’s a fun little

The Lost Road! It’s a curio,

C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy.

As noted at various points, the Númenor chapter was already discussed on its

Want to know something about the Lombardic language? Well there’s always

As for Middle-earth metaphysics, our episodes on The Nature of Middle-earth and the

The Worm Ouroboros with

Sycld Shefing! He got around.

Corn? Maize? Here’s a little more about

So the actual Alboin was…not pleasant.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and

Our “A Secret Vice” episode,

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: land. By default

Jared’s

The WGA strike is of course still

And indeed, Andy Serkis’s The Silmarillion

So yes, not only did a fan purchase the Magic: The Gathering The One Ring card

The promo performance of “Now And For Always”

The Rings of Power Emmy

The Society of American Archivists’

We meant to mention that fellow Megaphonic podcast The Spouter-Inn discussed The Fellowship of the

Much of the Christopher Tolkien-edited History of Middle-earth

I suspect most of us had our own Oregon

No, we are not going to relitigate the Eagles. Just listen to our

The article on Tolkien and Aldo Leopold is Lucas Niiler’s 1999 piece “Green

Who wouldn’t love the Glittering

Colonialism/imperialism and environmental destruction? Who could guess

Very light, but this piece on Roman ruins in the present

If you want to go to Three

A 2015 Vox piece on the invention and criminalization of

Peter Jackson’s vision of Isengard as industrial

Earthsea is always a vibe but as

A Thousand Thousand Islands is indeed no longer

Guy Gavriel Kay’s had quite the career!

And indeed some younger authors to check out who aren’t doing Europe all over

Fonda Lee has the Green Bone Saga to check out,

And indeed the fan film Born of

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: The Fall of Númenor.

Jared’s

News of the expanded edition of The Letters of J. R. R.

A detailed report on The War

The Fall of Númenor. It fell indeed.

Our episode on Aldarion and

Brian Sibley’s done a lot.

The Lost Road and Other

C. S. Lewis’s space

The New Shadow and The

Nope, we’re still not over The Rings of

Lebensraum, hoo boy. (We do not

Mary Renault is

Strictly speaking California doesn’t have private beaches full on…but boy

Further discussion of the physical body in Tolkien can be found in the essay

Alan Lee’s illustrations of Sauron’s

Mike Mignola would have been a

Ah, David Brent.

Our episode on orcs.

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: Sir Orfeo. The

Jared’s

Support the WGA strike! It’ll help Oriana among many others. Lots of good pieces out

The Rings of Power cast talk about

So the WGA strike didn’t deter Amazon from getting the second season of The

Check out the Annecy International Animation Film

Sir Orfeo! Want to try and read

The Orpheus myth is indeed pretty

David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000

The history of Winchester

There’s a fair amount out there about ‘the Greek tradition’ and Victorians –

As for the fairies/faery in Celtic tradition and the dead, there’s a lot there

Hadestown! It was and is a hit indeed. (And if

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Jared, Oriana and Ned appear live in Portland at Passages Bookshop to

Jared couldn’t make a doodle for obvious reasons. But look

Big ups to Passages Bookshop! Owner David

Not only was there our live episode but there was an associated live bingo

Oriana’s old podcast American Grift.

Whitechapel! Steampunky, yes, but the drinks

Our first episode! Different days…

The Hollywood Reporter

That suit filed by the fanfic guy. Where to

Don’t forget Jared’s upcoming novel!

Our Silver Call duology episode –

RIP Barry Humphries , Jackson’s Goblin King.

The Hobbit movies.

We’ve linked them before but the three

Nathan Rabin’s old Forgotbusters

Ah the Denny’s menu. Testimony from one who

The whole framerate thing was hyped almost as much as the 3D. And it was

The opening sequence in Erebor

Dune and Goodnight Moon? Julia Yu has you

Thorin and Bilbo fan-art on Tumblr? Wouldn’t know about

Thorin’s death scene with

The Tauriel issue.

Martin Freeman and James Nesbitt can indeed do something together with a sense

Lee Pace really just needed to do

The Thorin charge to Azog down the flaming

Alfrid Lickspittle. Just,

Yeah, Smaug the

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: the Rankin-Bass

Jared’s

Come join us in Portland for our live episode recording if you can!

News of more Rings of Power casting. Good luck, everyone.

Ciarán Hinds really is all

The UK National Archives

The Rankin-Bass Return of the

Our earlier episode on the Rankin-Bass

Oh I think we all know about the Star Wars Holiday Special. But the

The John Culhane New York Times piece from

The 1980 LA Times piece by Charles Solomon mentioned is available to read via

If you really actually want to watch the Rankin-Bass Return of the King,

Rick Goldschimdt’s interview with

The one-album vinyl

Want a view of that Seattle Kraken tentacle?

Oriana’s fine with the

The Last Homely

Ah the minstrel. Yes. Yes

Where there’s a whip! (But

Barad-dûr

Neuschwanstein

Sauron, though, that’s pretty interesting. And definitely not Mike

Our Silver Call duology episode.

Bring on The War of the

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Jared’s choice of topic: worldbuilding.

Jared’s

More about the HarperCollins Union

The Lord of the Rings musical is coming

The Watermill. It does

Variety’s report on the Embracer/Warner Bros. Discovery deal

A little more about Mike de Luca from

Still confused about the overall rights issues when it comes to Tolkien in the

The announcement of Jared’s novel! Due for release next year,

More on that whole Doug Liman/Bourne Identity

Worldbuilding! Yup, Middle-earth, right there.

Terry Pratchett, rest in peace. One of

Sub-creation, how Tolkien

Our episode on “A Secret Vice,”

NaNoWriMo! It’s a thing, believe us.

Our death episode! (Very early

The Chekhov’s gun principle.

Oriana’s Star Wars comments specifically refer to

Ioreth! There should have been more

The ‘whispering to

Ted Bundy – and yes we hope he’s

Our Rings of Power Season 1

N. K. Jemisin and the Broken

The Dark Crystal, still

“As you know, Bob…”

The cats of Queen

Our food in Middle-earth episode.

Enjoy talk about Roman sewers. And Amsterdam’s

M. R. James, so awesome.

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana’s choice of topic: Gollum. For all

Jared’s

Was there rain? There was

The HarperCollins Union strike looks to be over! Here’s a press

Like we said, rumors, no more, about

The BBC Repair Shop story is a treat.

Just hanging around Tolkien and

Lord of the Bins! Well,

Gollum’s touching of Frodo’s knee should be portrayed more in fan art, but

All letters quoted taken from the standard Letters of J. R. R.

Our episodes on Sam Gamgee and

Andy Serkis’s retelling on how he first considered the Gollum casting can be

Admittedly that Cat in the Hat

Grendel? Fascinating and monstrous

John D. Rateliff’s The History Of The

The Third Man is a great, great

Were the elves spreading stories of atrocity

Serkis himself sees

The David Foster Wallace

Déagol, shadowy and still

Yeah sure, Midsomer Murders,

Goofus and Gallant

How associated is the phrase ‘unstuck in time’ with Kurt Vonnegut? Quite a

And go go go Everything Everywhere All At

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