The Extra Curricular

This week, our company of Dwarves and Hobbit find themselves caught up in a group of hungry trolls and are nearly squashed into jelly. Jonathan, Katie and Chase reflect on the nature of Elves after having read The Silmarillion and if knowledge of Arda history is required for enjoying the Hobbit. 

It is finally here! The very first episode of Talking Tolkien: The Hobbit. This was a super enjoyable chapter as Jonathan, Katie and Chase experience the Shire, and the good food of the Hobbits. Oh also a surprising invitation to go on an adventure and some uninvited Dwarves. 

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This is it. After this episode about the Rings of Power and the Third Age Jonathan, Katie and Chase will be officially done talking about the Silmarillion. Next week they will be starting the Hobbit.

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Númenor seemed like a nice place until a Dark Lord decided to tear down the will of the people living there and pushed them into war with the gods. That, an island full of corgis and more on this week's episode of Talking Tolkien where Jonathan, Katie and Chase read the Akallabêth of the Silmarillion and contemplate why Sauron is in such a blasphemous mood. 

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Jonathan Cox, Katie Sabo, and Chase Smith have finally reached the end of the Silmarillion proper with Chapter 24. For all intents and purposes they are now done with the Silmarillion and spend their time tying up all the loose ends of the book. Over the next two week, they will be reading the final epilogues of the Silmarillion and hope to start Tolkien's The Hobbit within the next month.

This is it, the home stretch to the end of the Silmarillion. This week Jonathan Cox, Katie Sabo and Chase Smith talk about chapters 22 and 24 of the Silmarillion which are about the fall of Doriath and Gondolin. Everything is terrible and everything is sad, but hope has not run out yet. There is still one final chapter of the Silmarillion proper.

This week's episode of Talking Tolkien is the longest one yet. We read chapter 21 of the Silmarillion and talked about Turin and his many names along with his brain washed sister. What follows was hour and change discussion about name changing in Tolkien's work and the Middle-Earth equivalent of the Hall's Angels. Enjoy.

We only cover one chapter of the Silmarillion this week on Talking Tolkien. Chapter 20, Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad is epic and crazy and some horrible events take place. Tolkien experts, Katie Sabo and Jon Cox, and newbie Chase Smith dig in to the terrible battle that breaks the bonds between Men and Elves.

Previously on Talking Tolkien, Tolkien Experts Katie Sabo and Jon Cox had pushed for 2 chapters per episode. This week the are covering only one chapter from the Silmarillion. Chapter 19, the love story of Of Beren and Lúthien and their own attack against Morgoth.

Epic battles, awesome women leading whole villages and great big bushy beards on this week's episode of Talking Tolkien with Tolkien experts Katie Sabo and Jon Cox and not so newbie Chase Smith. This episode focuses on Chapters 18 and 19 of the Silmarillion.