Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Special Thanks to Erik Mann who joined us as a panelist this month.

Jess of the Shire's The Silmarillion in 30ish minutes Youtube Video
A Reader's Guide to The Silmarillion by Paul Harold Kocher
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J.E.A. Tyler
The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby:  Circe by Madeline Miller
Trevor: Hadestown (Broadway musical)
Erik: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan 

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: quarantine

Trevor: legend

Erik: grandiose

Next month we will be discussing Walking the Bypass by Ken Wilson.

Thank you to everyone who read The Silmarillion with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

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