Songs and Tales: A Literary Guide to Middle Earth

Songs and Tales: A Literary Guide to Middle Earth

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Songs and Tales: A Literary Guide to Middle Earth episodes

  • Episode 02 - A Philologist Goes to War
    Aaron and Clara discuss Tolkien's creative process and how his love of philology coupled with his war experience set the stage for him to write his major works. Plus, Aaron makes a sexy joke and Clara goes on a nerd rant about William Blake. 
    Sources: 
    Humphrey Carpenter J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977)
    John Garth Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth (2003)
    Charles E. Noad "Frodo and his Spectre: Blakean Resonances in Tolkien" (1996)
    1 hr
  • Episode 01 - Too Greedily and Too Deep
    Clara and Aaron introduce their J.R.R. Tolkien podcast, talk about their first encounters with Tolkien's Middle Earth, discuss some of the many ideas that they hope to tackle, and generally muse about everyone's favorite tweedy Oxonian.
    56 min

About Songs and Tales: A Literary Guide to Middle Earth

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Clara and Aaron revisit the works of J.R.R. Tolkien with a focus on the literary merits, historical contexts, and biographical influences in the trilogy, the Simarillion, and many of his other…