We are going on an adventure! Love The Lord of the Rings? Why not read along with us as we consider the books from the writer's point of view! Taking it chapter by chapter, novelist Julia Golding will reveal new details that you might not have noticed and techniques that will only go to increase your pleasure in future re-readings of our favourite novel. Julia also brings her expert knowledge of life in Oxford and English culture to explain some points that might have passed you by. 

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0:07 A Knife in the Dark

6:33 The Shire's Unusual Cutaway

11:01 Frodo and Strider's Cinematic Shift

20:59 The Midgewater Marshes

27:15 The Approach of the Black Riders

33:39 The Tale of Beren and Luthien

35:02 The Gathering Storm

37:56 Frodo's Bravery and the Ring's Toll