In this episode, I am joined by two guests to discuss Tolkien's short story, Farmer Giles of Ham. David Rowe is the author of The Proverbs of Middle Earth and Aaron Bair is an English Teacher at a charter school in Salt Lake City. I hope we can be worthwhile companions as you join us in reading this delightful and profound story!

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In this short episode, I discuss some of the exciting happenings in the recently launched Mythic Mind Humanities Guild!

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In this episode, I'm joined by C.R. Wiley to discuss his book, In the House of Tom Bombadil. While we primarily focused on Bombadil as he appears in The Lord of the Rings, this connects to our current series on The Tales from the Perilous Realm, which includes the poetic "Adventures of Tom Bombadil." We'll get to these specific tales another time, but I found this to be a worthwhile, more general conversation about this fascinating character.

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In this episode, I share the vision for an exciting new venture taking place under the Mythic Mind banner and I provide a reading and reflection on Grimm's "Little Brier-Rose," which is part of my otherwise Patreon-exclusive series on Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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I was recently honored to join Jeremy Kee on his podcast, Through the Keyhole, to discuss the reality of myth, Tolkien, Lewis, and more. This is a sample of the conversation. To hear it in full, head over to his podcast and be sure to subscribe!

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Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories" is the essay that radicalizes how many of us think about fantasy: not childish escape, but recovery, consolation, and the making of secondary worlds.

In this Mythic Mind conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) is joined by John Carswell of The Tolkien Road to walk the essay beside Leaf by Niggle and Mythopoeia as a primer to Tolkien's literary philosophy, including eucatastrophe and why fantasy is a human need.

Topics include subcreation, the difference between the Flight of the Deserter and the Escape of the Prisoner, and how good fairy-stories reawaken the world's strangeness.

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• Mythic Mind 35 - Leaf by Niggle (feat. Thomas Salerno): https://youtu.be/z8kjHMubGWI
• Tolkien's Long Defeat: Northern Courage and Christian Hope (Mythic Mind, ep. 75): https://youtu.be/zQZuCpAd8t8
• Middle-earth Mixer: What Makes Tolkien Great (Mythic Mind, ep. 64): https://youtu.be/FfWIpC63fkM
• War of the Rohirrim: The Lord of the Rings Anime (Mythic Mind, ep. 67): https://youtu.be/Yns-tDu_S-4

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Leaf by Niggle is Tolkien's quiet parable of making: a little painter who never finishes his tree, a neighbor who keeps interrupting, and a journey that turns distraction and duty into something larger than either alone.

In this Mythic Mind conversation from the Tales from the Perilous Realm series, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) talks with Thomas Salerno (Perilous Realms podcast) about Niggle's art, Parish, purgatory-tinged work, and how the finished Tree reframes what looked like failure in life.

Topics include subcreation, the perilous realm at a higher pitch, and why this short story still speaks to anyone who makes under unfinished conditions.

Related:
• On Fairy-Stories: Subcreation, Escape, and Consolation (Mythic Mind, ep. 36): https://youtu.be/a0hIBT-Ncss
• Tolkien's Long Defeat: Northern Courage and Christian Hope (Mythic Mind, ep. 75): https://youtu.be/zQZuCpAd8t8
• J.R.R. Tolkien and the Long Defeat (Mythic Mind, ep. 181): https://youtu.be/R-1Yp1Z8dv4
• Tolkien's The Monsters and the Critics: https://youtu.be/THW4r9mWSNw

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In this episode, I introduce the new season of Mythic Mind! If you don't already have a copy of Tolkien's Tales from the Perilous Realm, be sure to order your copy today so you can follow along! Also, be sure to support me on Patreon to get full access to the Mythic Mind community and to support my work. patreon.com/andrewnsnyder Tales from the Perilous Realm --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mythicmind/support

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In this brief episode, I lay out some exciting new paths we'll be taking in 2023, including new Patreon offerings! Patreon: patreon.com/andrewnsnyder Substack: andrewnsnyder.substack.com

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While my current content focus is primarily on the Patreon-exclusive Grimm series, I'm continuing to repurpose old content to keep the public podcast feed alive. In this episode, I read a blog post that I wrote in December of 2020 as my wife and I continued to work through child loss and empty arms. While much has changed since then, there are some experiences that remain forever-present.

The joy of Christmas can become salt on the wounds of those who are mourning, so I hope that this short episode provides some degree of solace to those who need it.

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