Special guest Larry D. Curtis, a Tolkien journalist, joins me as we explore JRR Tolkien's influence culture, being on set for the Hobbit, and some criticisms on Rings of Power.

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Food, fire, and foreshadowing: we wander the second chapter of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and explore how this simple chapter is a major clue to the rest of Bilbo’s adventure.

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We explore the opening of the movie The Hobbit, an Unexpected Journey, and compare it to the chapter in JRR Tolkien’s classic children’s book, The Hobbit. We will see how a seemingly-small change in the prologue shifts the entire story away from Tolkien’s tale.

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How an unsuspecting, comfortable hobbit became the host of a party of dwarves and a burglar of a dragon: Today we explore chapter 1 of JRR Tolkien’s classic story: The Hobbit or There and Back Again.

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

Tolkien’s simple opening line to his book The Hobbit wasn’t merely the first sentence to a children’s story of adventure, bravery, and dragons: this sentence is the first step in our own adventure of wandering Middle-earth. That unassuming yet provocative line opens us to a much wider world, to the epic struggle of good vs evil, of light overcoming the Shadow.

Today we’ll examine the origins of Tolkien’s first published work of fiction, The Hobbit.

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Remastered episode 1: "The Beginning of Middle-earth"! We introduce Tolkien's "The Silmarillion" and examine the creation story for Tolkien's mythology.

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Who understands the Lord of the Rings better? Amazon’s Rings of Power, or the new artificial intelligence called ChatGPT. 

I asked the AI three questions about Lord of the Rings, and its answers left me speechless. Today, I will explore three questions, giving you the responses from an artificial intelligence, and comparing them with how I assume Rings of Power answered the same questions.

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I've seen Peter Jackson's LoTR movies nearly three dozen times, but I still notice new details and connections every time I watch them. Join me as I share new insights from the movies as I watch them in my annual Lord of the Rings movie marathon.

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I've seen Peter Jackson's LoTR movies nearly three dozen times, but I still notice new details and connections every time I watch them. Join me as I share new insights from the movies as I watch them in my annual Lord of the Rings movie marathon.

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The events of the Lord of the Rings book transpire in less than a year. But what a packed year it was; when the events of the First, Second, and nearly all the Third Age culminate in the overthrow of Sauron, the Return of the King, and the journey of a hobbit and his friend to Mt Doom in Mordor.

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