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

Jared’s

Andy Serkis’s readings of The Hobbit and The Lord of the

The Daily Mail photo

The Tolkien Society photo

Rosamund Pike has her way with a

Absolutely check out Costa Botes’s behind the scenes documentaries about Peter

Tree and Leaf, the most current version of

Andrew Lang’s impact on the general field of fairy

Max Müller’s had his own

Our Smith of Wootton Major

The ancient Egyptian Tale of Two

We didn’t mention it in our discussion but Tolkien’s referencing of the

If you want more on Carl Jung and how Joseph Campbell built off him, read

The Juniper

M. R. James – so great. A Thin

R. L. Stine – also so great. The

Hayao Miyazaki – great great

The Dublin

So you’re wondering about Purgatory

CCD aka Confraternity of Christian

Phantom Thread! Great film.

The Great Divorce, That

Niggle and Parish, a fraught friendship but with more to it there. Here’s our

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about our collective choice of topic: Peter

[Thanks to Michael Collins from This Is Your

Jared’s

Will Poulter, via a larger GQ feature, on why he couldn’t make the Amazon series. No biggie, it

The Daily Mail (yeah, we know) story on Christopher Tolkien’s

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the

Yes, true, a certain first Harry Potter

That first web-only featurette from

LordOfTheRings.net isn’t around any more but the Internet Archive turns up

Elijah Wood really was inspired

Ian McKellen, goddamn. Enjoy some

And indeed, Bob Shaye. Thanks

Ah, AOL Time

The ‘pity and mercy’ scene as

Andrew Lesnie was truly a

Polygon’s yearlong series on

The ‘Boromir trains the

If you want Arwen’s hero moment, come and click

Cate Blanchett fully arrives in the

The mirror of Galadriel

Saruman summoning the storm is

For more thoughts on Gimli, our dwarves

Howard Shore, indeed. And not just him: the piece of music Jared

The Aragorn temptation scene.

Frodo leaves the Fellowship –

Mission: Recall! Give it an

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana’s choice of topic: Sam Gamgee. For

Jared’s

Wanna be like Oriana? Here’s how to apply to the Warner Bros.’ Writers

A summary of the Lenny Henry radio

Willow does have its fanbase,

The Wheel of Time is coming and we await with

Dune, yes. We quite like it. (Tolkien himself

Letter 246 to Eileen Elgar, which

You can find plenty of Sean Astin clips of him portraying Sam out there. As

The famed Tolkien/Sam Gamgee

Shakespeare’s rustic characters were something stock, and indeed were often

The Marx quote was from the Communist Manifesto, and indeed, ‘the idiocy of

Our episode on friendship.

More on that hand-holding

John Garth’s Tolkien and the Great

Batmen are a thing, and

Sean Astin’s autobiography There And Back

There’s RP, there’s

You know the potatoes

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: The Nature of

Jared’s

The California redwood parks are

TheOneRing.net’s

Star Wars: Visions is a treat.

Red X by David Demchuk is the book Jared’s illustrated. Check it out!

The Nature of Middle-earth -- order away!

Vinyar Tengwar and the

Kristine Larsen’s extensive

The Isaac Newton story Ned mentioned is a little more involved than

Now if you’ve not seen Spirited

The Notion Club

Flat-earth Catholics, well...we’ll just link

Neoplatonism! We understand if you’re already

If you want a little more about the phenomenal

The Magisterium is VERY

So let’s talk the Gnostics!

Enjoy some more about bear

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Jared’s choice of topic: The Fall of

Jared’s

Indeed, we all three recommend The Green Knight. We all appreciated this

Amazon’s tweet

Separately, news about the shift from New Zealand

The Fall of Gondolin as

As always: Tuor is just a guy.

The History of the

Perhaps you’ve heard of The Clone Wars.

The USS Scamp was the

The Alan Lee

The ‘From each according to his

Voronwë is a legit interesting

The Seven Gates of

Alan Lee’s take

Ulmo really does have an intriguing role in the

Watch out for the Actually Guys.

Idril is even more of a legit

Were you a Sk8er Boi? Or did

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

Jared’s

Uh yeah get your shots, the end.

That TheOneRing.net spy

Our episode about Orcs.

Blue Harvest! Horror beyond

Blue Origin! Also horror beyond

The HarperCollins UK

That Foreign Policy piece “Comrades of the Ring” — worth a read!

The Eagles! They fly around.

That misleading Polygon

The Tolkien Gateway summary of Letter

“Someone is WRONG on the Internet.”

CinemaSins? We hate it.

Edmund Wilson’s “Oo, Those Awful

Bored of the Rings. It’s

Deus ex machina! It’s a

The Peter Jackson Beorn bear

Eagles in world mythology? You’re

We only know so much about the Sky

Superstore! Probably

Metro Micro, should you so desire.

Ted Naismith’s painting of the cloud eagle in the

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: The Children of

Jared’s

Yes, Ned is a fan of RuPaul’s Drag

The announcement of Warner Bros’s planned anime

Kenji Kamiyama has quite the

And yes, as we talked about in episode

That Fellowship of Fans Twitter

TheOneRing.net’s

The Children of

That Tumblr post with Túrin describing himself as

Kullervo, the Finnish anti-hero that

It’s a little obvious to mention—and Kullervo’s story overall is closer—but

Ned’s old 2007 blog entry on reading The Children of Hurin.

Episode 2—and Tuor is still just a

Glaurung, Tolkien’s other main

Is there Turin and Beleg fan

Alan Lee’s illustration from the

The Petty-dwarves have their

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

Jared’s

Sergio Agüero does indeed have tengwar on his arm. But Fernando

Lothlorien

Charlotte Brändström joins the directing squad for Amazon.

Ludi Lin isn’t wrong, really.

Specifically, the pilot was called Babylon 5: The

Lothlórien indeed. A place,

Our episode on Galadriel (and

The Tolkien zine Ned was talking about is the still-going Beyond

Peter Jackson and team really did a great job with Caras

The earlier Lórien

Kievan Rus is an intriguing

The various Elf kindreds are their own involved tangle, and Silvan

Ned got the forest in Beleriand wrong—that’s Taur-im-Duinath.

Maedhros, Amrod and Amras fan art showing off the red hair? Oh it’s

Eurovision is great, Italy’s winning

Someone is WRONG on the Internet.

Mallorns! Or, as Tolkien (and Jared)

Ecological or environmental

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana’s choice of topic: the Scouring of

Jared’s

As was said in the insert segment, check out our fellow Megaphonic podcast

So yeah, looks like Amazon is kicking down a LOT of

Meantime, so much for Amazon’s separate Tolkien

John Waters has been wanting to film Fruitcake for over a decade

Don’t Call It a Cult by Sarah

Morfydd Clark is still dropping

Yeah, Scott Rudin. Piece of work, this guy.

The Glomar Explorer deal is

The Scouring has

There’s no exact equivalent in Peter Jackson’s version, of course—the brief

Restorative justice is gaining in popularity

In re Indiana Jones—never choose

Letter 100 from the published

Here’s our episode on

More on umbrellas in Seattle. And if you’re wondering about

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: the 1977 Rankin-Bass

Jared’s

It really has been two years since we

Deadline’s report on Wayne Che Yip

The production’s

Tom Budge’s Instagram post about

RuPaul’s Drag Race is

News on the new Tolkien-illustrated

Yup, this trailer is twenty

Rick Goldschmidt’s history of Rankin-Bass is very much available.

Russell A. Potter’s key article about the making of The Hobbit can be found in

The Rankin-Bass

Luke Shelton’s 2020 piece about the shadowy 1960s Hobbit

Here’s Middle-earth Enterprises’ own

The major ‘in the moment’ preview feature for the Rankin-Bass Hobbit appears

Rick Goldschmidt’s interview with Arthur Rankin Jr. from

Arthur Rackham’s influence

A quick and useful explainer about the Japanese animation connections in The Hobbit.

It really did win a Peabody!

The briskly-told barrel

Walt Simonson is quality.

That W. C. Fields Philadelphia

It’s true...the Rankin-Bass

Brian Froud is good quality. And

How the Rankin-Bass Elvenking sits on his

Pantsless Lake-men

More of our recent thoughts on

Shin Godzilla IS very great.

Smaug at his best in the film is pretty

Brother Theodore was truly

Diagetic music is something

Thurl Ravenscroft, the

Glenn Yarbrough’s Wikipedia

Our fellow Megaphonic podcast This Is Your

Kermit singing “The Rainbow Connection” at

The whole Ace/Ballantine Lord of the Rings paperback

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