In a followup to our previous collaboration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLce_96994) dealing with various literary criticisms of The Lord of the Rings, GirlNextGondor and I take on the Michael Moorcock essay “Epic Pooh.”    

If you want to read Epic Pooh for yourself, you can do so here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/en361fantastika/bibliography/2.7moorcock_m.1978epic_pooh.pdf 

For GirlNextGondor’s video on how the Shire is NOT an idyllic utopia, click here (but only if you promise not to take it personally!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jylGmnltxNQ 

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