In this episode recorded during Tolkien Week 2017, Shay and guest Max talk about - try to guess - that's right, Tolkien! Finally getting to the "Erebor" part of "From Erebor to Echo Base", Shay gives the history on Tolkien Week and Hobbit Day, then jumps into a discussion of Middle-earth, including The Silmarillion, books vs. movies, connections between Tolkien's world and Christian theology, and more! (Of course, Shay has to bring up the connections between Treebeard and the Bendu.)

Also, Shay has some updates for listeners on what's going on with The Elven Padawan, as well as a brand-new intro for the podcast!

Quick note: please excuse the audio quality in Shay's portions of this episode. Once again, 'that glitch' returned to plague her, but this should be the very last occurrence of that evil nasty.

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