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

Jared’s

New Zealand’s change of state of emergency to Level

The Tom Shippey

Timothy and Samuel West’s version of Beren and

I mean...the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings

The Rankin-Bass

The theater Ned saw the Jackson films at was the Big

That specific FoxTrot

David Lynch’s Dune is a

Fans were arguing about the ‘character assassination’ of Faramir in Jackson’s

Ursula K. Le Guin’s merciless

Dorothy Dunnett forever.

P. C.

N. K. Jemisin, total hero. And yes The Fifth Season

The name Ned was trying to say and stumbling over is Nnedi

The David Wenzel-illustrated graphic

Jared does indeed have good reason for

Saul Zaentz’s Tolkien Enterprises is now Middle-earth

Here’s that Tom Shippey

The viral

Cassandra Khaw’s official site.

Various editions of the BBC Radio adaptation of The Lord of the

Ned’s Quietus piece on Bakshi’s The Lord of the

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

Jared’s

The Amazon series

That...odd...tweet

TheOneRing.net’s report on the death of Andrew

Oriana’s old Vox piece on

BluBlockers! Don’t say you

Dennis L. McKiernan’s site. Based on a Twitter

Post-Tolkien fantasy is indeed a thing and a term. (And there’s much more

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Jared’s choice of topic: fanwork! Whether

Jared’s

Renée Vink’s “‘Jewish’ Dwarves: Tolkien and Anti-Semitic

Patricia Thang’s Bookriot piece “9 of the Best Lord of the Rings Podcasts.”

So, You Want to Read Tolkien.

Stuff.co.nz’s February 26th piece “Massive production underway for Lord of

TheOneRing.net’s February spy

The original sneak preview

And indeed, Bezos himself was apparently in New

Deadline’s report on Maxim Baldry joining the cast.

Star Trek fans, Kirk and Spock and all that? The history is

Heavy Mithril!

Curative and

A favorite artistic/literary fanwork effort: Gustave Dore’s Rime of the

Beyond Bree, still going strong!

The fan film Ned was talking about is Born of

The revelations about Marion Zimmer

A Tolkien Treasury is around if you look.

The Numero comp, which has songs like Stonehenge’s “King of the Golden Hall,”

Got metal and prog bands who love Tolkien if you want ‘em. Cirith

Iron Crown Enterprises is

Jared’s concluding fan artist recommendations: Aud

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: the Dwarves!

Jared’s

That ‘UK police don’t realize they have the One

The Tolkien Society’s announcement of Christopher Tolkien’s

John Garth’s obituary of Christopher

A translation of Christopher Tolkien’s interview with Le

Amazon’s announcement of their Tolkien adaptation

The Television Critics Association. It’s a thing!

The National Museum of Denmark has a page

Suffice to say that the question of Tolkien’s Dwarves and anti-Semitic tropes

”Dwarves are Not Heroes”: Antisemitism and the Dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien’s

Uncut Gems was pretty good, it should

As for the Goblins in J. K. Rowling’s work, there’s definitely been talk

The letter from Tolkien to a Nazi-overseen

We don’t recommend a read of Bret Stephens’s column in question. Suffice to

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Important note: this episode was recorded before Amazon’s formal cast

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: Tolkien’s short mock-medieval novella, Farmer Giles of Ham. Published in 1949, though mostly

Jared’s

The Witcher is a thing. Netflix will

The initial Variety report on Morfydd Clark’s casting

The Deadline report on Ema Horvath’s casting.

Variety’s report on Will Poulter exiting the series.

There are numerous ways to donate to assist communities impacted by the Australian

Numerous editions of Farmer Giles have been printed, individually or in

I mean, we don’t need to explain Monty Python,

Millers! They weren’t always loved.

Pauline Baynes was really a remarkable

Jafar was voiced by Jonathan

Tolkien and

What made a good medieval king? Here’s a modern

Sending medieval messages was involved regardless of whether a king signed with a

Blackletter—you know the font,

Unsurprisingly, someone’s created a recipe for dragon’s tail

The BFI listing for

The Redwall series is

The John Howe book with Belegost and Nogrod illustrations is A Middle-earth

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: magic. It may seem

Jared’s

Jared’s illustrated series of the

Deadline’s report on the Amazon series’s renewal for a second season

A 2010 piece from the Heterodoxology

William Morris

Trust me, you know Maxfield Parrish’s work.

The Palantíri are truly

...and the Istari (aka Gandalf and

Brandon Sanderson has written quite a

Amon Hen, the Hill of Seeing, and

All hail Ursula K. Le Guin and her memory.

The Noldor were indeed initially called

Queen Berúthiel. The ultimate

Geas! Learn about it.

The cookbook mentioned by Ned is Regional Cooking from Middle-earth: Recipes

If you’re planning on reading ahead for the next episode, this

Be like Jared and read Mervyn Peake, you’ll be

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: Tom Bombadil.

Jared’s

Deadline’s report on Joseph

Collider’s report on Maxim Baldry’s casting.

Ioreth is pretty damn great, no lie.

Christopher Lee DID do a project that Tom Bombadil appears in—but not the one you’re

Väinämöinen

“Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom

If you really must listen to the 1979 NPR production of The Lord of the

Brian Sibley’s 1992 BBC radio series Tales From the Perilous Realm, via

Farmer Maggot rules—and here’s a little more about why he has that

Tolkien’s Letter 144, written to

The Dude abides.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is a fun read for sure, especially with

Bored of the

The Last Ringbearer by

AO3. That’s all we’ll say.

Barrow-wights are seriously

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: Ghân-buri-Ghân.

Jared’s

Luke Shelton’s tweet

John Rateliff absolutely knows his

Here’s the news on the wider casting call for the Amazon series.

Taika Waititi! He’s a guy.

Ghân-buri-Ghân—only

Separately, more on the Púkel-men and the Drúedain. (One of

Louise Liebherr’s “Reimagining Tolkien: A Post-colonial Perspective on The

The Neanderthals remain a vividly

Orientalism

Irish Home Rule was

Tolkien’s Letter 61 is one of his

Christina Fawcett’s “Play and Pacifist Space: Language in the Writing of

“Tal-Elmar” may in the

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: friendship!

Jared’s

Go see Jared at GeekGirlCon in Seattle in mid-November! You’ll be glad you did.

Indeed, we thank everyone again for all their lovely comments so far, and we

You don’t know John Mulaney’s work? You’re

Variety broke the news of Will Poulter’s casting in the Amazon

There’s a lot of academic work out there on male relationships in Edwardian

When it comes to Tolkien’s own deep male friendships in real life and

Homosociality! It’s an

To say that there’s a lot out there on the

Beregond and Bergil make

Kaila Hale-Stern’s “Let’s Talk About That Queer Subtext in

A Spring Harvest by Geoffrey Bache

“Dulce Et Decorum Est” by

You can get the story of Turin and Beleg in The Silmarillion, but the

Gretchen Felker-Martin’s essay in

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Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: Galadriel. Even if

Jared’s

The full interview of Stephen Colbert by Anderson Cooper on

Here’s that Amazon video introducing their show’s creative

John Howe is, well, John Howe. He’s just

Tom Shippey is his own total

Markella Kavenagh is (almost) Tyra, if

There’s plenty out there on the Robert Jordan Wheel of

I mean, yeah, Cate Blanchett,

But more seriously, Tolkien Gateway’s overview of

Jared’s reminder that Tolkien was far from ‘woke’ is a further reminder in

Celeborn, the master of just being

Suffice to say “The Mirror of

Galadriel’s hair alone may

Galadriel as a manifestation of Tolkien’s

The issue of mindreading and telepathy in Tolkien is a touch vague—but not

My Bloody Valentine? I do like

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