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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0:00 Introduction

2:06 Finding Refreshment in Nature

3:57 Tolkien's Discovery Writing

5:51 The Evolution of Sam

7:35 The Humour of Hobbits

8:03 Traversing the Shire

10:53 Elegiac Moment Under the Elm Tree

11:51 Pippin Leading the Way

12:16 Encounter with Farmer Maggot

14:52 Farmer Maggot's Encounter with the Black Rider

17:09 Frodo's Wild Past

20:13 Manners in the Maggot Household