The Tolkien Professor

By The Tolkien Professor (Corey Olsen)

The Tolkien Professor podcast is a series of lectures, discussions, and seminars on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Corey Olsen, President of Signum University. All are welcome to enter – even those wi... more

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The Tolkien Professor episodes:

July 06, 2014 Episode 258: Riddles in the Dark Supererogatory Episode 4
Corey and Trish (standing in for Laura) go over all the riddles covering the Siege (RITD Episodes 3.06, 3.07 and 3.08)
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1h 17min
June 30, 2014 Episode 257: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.11: The Battle of Five Armies, Part 1
Why will the Elves march to Erebor? Will Bilbo be conscious for the battle? Does Roac constitute one of the armies? These and other pressing questions are considered in this installment of Riddles in the Dark
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1h 56min
June 18, 2014 Episode 256: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.10: Dol Guldur Part 2 - The Black Hats
What is Sauron up to? Where are all those Orcs going anyway? And what's going on with the Nazgul? We don't have the answers, but we have LOTS of theories.
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1h 45min
June 01, 2014 Episode 255: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.09: Dol Guldur Part 1 - The White Hats
In a Daveless episode, Trish and Corey consider what will be happening at Dol Guldur in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, with excursions into unrelated topics
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2h 26min
May 22, 2014 Episode 254: Riddles in the Dark Supererogatory, Episode III
The third episode of the Riddles in the Dark Supererogatory. The Tolkien Professor addresses your comments and questions on RITD 3.04 and RITD 3.05.
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1h 24min
May 18, 2014 Episode 253: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.08: The Siege,Thief in the Night
Moving right along toward the Battle of (the) Five Armies, Tolkien Professor Corey Olsen and his Riddles in the Dark co-hosts actually talk about....wait for it....THE HOBBIT!!!
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1h 58min
May 03, 2014 Episode 252: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.07: The Siege,Laketown View
Our hosts were very talkative in this episode, starting with a rant about the new name for Hobbit Movie 3, then moving on to considering how the Siege of Erebor might look from the Laketown side of the table. And Corey got to use "abscond" in a sentence, which pleased him no end.
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2h 16min
April 23, 2014 Episode 251: Riddles in the Dark Supererogatory, Episode II
The second episode of the Riddles in the Dark Supererogatory. The Tolkien Professor addresses your comments and questions on RITD 3.02 and RITD 3.03. Afterwards, Corey speaks with Professor Robin Reid about her research on Tolkien's influence on modern culture.
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2h 11min
April 21, 2014 Episode 250: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.06: The Siege,Erebor View
Corey extols the virtues of Roac, Trish attempts to be a human sound effects machine, and Dave holds it all together as the talk centers on what the Dwarves are up to before the Men and Elves arrive in The Hobbit: There and Back Again.
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2h 15min
April 05, 2014 Episode 249: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.05: Smaug's Attack
How epic will the attack of the dragon on Laketown be? Will there be any red shirts among the cast? And what about that oily Master? Inquiring minds examine these and other questions about The Hobbit: There and Back Again.
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1h 57min

FAQs about The Tolkien Professor:

How many episodes does The Tolkien Professor have?

The podcast currently has 730 episodes available.