Shire Reckoning

The Arc Reacter


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This week, heroes and heroism in The Lord of the Rings. How do we react to arcs, or the absence of arcs? Is success a means of measuring the worth of a hero? Who gets the best arc in the whole book? Is Merry more of a Squirtle, or a Bulbasaur?

Show Notes

  • The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins (Leonard Nimoy)
  • Leaf By Niggle
  • The Lord of the Rings Set, all 1st Printings of the 1st Edition (Abebooks)
  • Pauline Baynes
  • The Bovadium Fragments
  • Burns & Co.
  • The Mythmakers (John Hendrix)
  • Goblins! (Adam Roberts)
  • A Princess illustrates The Lord of the Rings: Ingahild Grathmer, Eric Fraser and the Folio Society 

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