Tolkien Pop! Podcast

In this interview, Nick talks with Ryan Does, host of Across the Bifrost: The Mighty Thor Podcast about the history of Thor in Marvel and his roots in the Prose and Poetic Eddas and their connection to Tolkien and fandom in general.

Follow Ryan and his work here:

Instagram: @iamryandoes and @marvelthorpodcast

Across the Bifrost: The Mighty Thor Podcast:

Skipping Church Podcast:

My book Tolkien and Pop Culture: Volume I is now available! This book is a selection of my Substack posts from the past couple of years, cleaned up, and formatted for publication. For the first time, you can get all these essays in print or in your Kindle library. It’ll look great on your shelf and be available for your own Tolkien purposes! Use the QR code, the link, or direct message me to order your copy: https://a.co/d/eBE7jiH

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In this interview, Nick speaks with Andrew Nicewander about experiencing religious abuse and trauma, Tolkien’s own religious trauma, deconstruction, and hope for a better (a)religious future.

Andrew is a depressive castaway loved by his wife and children, who strives to live simply and softly. In real life, he is a seemingly mild-mannered software engineer who nerds out at Imaginative Lore and loves the Wild Wood; but in his heart he's an Ent with a busted hip who wrestles with his Maker. He's a recent graduate from Trinity Anglican Seminary (MAR, 2024) having written a thesis with the paragraphic title of "Shattered Souls and the Re-Enchanting Magic of Myth – The Role that J.R.R. Tolkien and His Projects of Eucatastrophe and Sub-Creation Can Play in the Healing of the Church-Traumatized"

Follow Andrew here:

Substack:

X: https://x.com/Wandering_Gael

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awanderinggael

My book Tolkien and Pop Culture: Volume I is now available! This book is a selection of my Substack posts from the past couple of years, cleaned up, and formatted for publication. For the first time, you can get all these essays in print or in your Kindle library. It’ll look great on your shelf and be available for your own Tolkien purposes! Use the QR code, the link, or direct message me to order your copy: https://a.co/d/eBE7jiH

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In this first official (kind of) Tolkien Pop! podcast interview, Nick shares an interview he did with Dr. Robin Anne Reid that was originally recorded for the Interchanging Melodies Online Summit held in 2023 that was hosted by Tripp Fuller from Homebrewed Christianity podcast and the Process This Substack.

In the interview, Robin shares about their Tolkien experience as a scholar and fan and the project that she was and is working on, i.e., Atheist, Agnostic, and Animist experiences in Tolkien fandom and scholarship. There's also a lot more fun that is had, including talks on fan fiction and sexy Frodo?

Dr. Robin Anne Reid retired from Texas A&M University-Commerce in May 2020 and moved to Bellingham, Washington in October 2020. She is enjoying retirement which is allowing her to finish the scholarly and writing projects she never had time for before. Her current major projects include a recent anthology Queer Approaches to Tolkien, co-edited with Christopher Vaccaro and Stephen Yandell, as well as an anthology on racisms on Tolkien (under contract with McFarland). When those are submitted, she will begin work on her monograph about atheist, agnostic, and animist readers of Tolkien's legendarium. She runs the Tolkien Studies Area for the national Popular Culture Conference. After leaving Facebook in 2022, she set up a Substack newsletter, Writing from Ithilien, which she is using to post about Tolkien scholarship:

Check out the rest of the scholars from the Interchanging Melodies Online Summit here: https://homebrewedchristianity.lpages.co/tolkienheads-theology-conference/

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What’s Up Tolkien Poppers,

Tripp Fuller and I’s livestream on The Rings of Power Season 2 Episode 5 comes to you now—at the turn of the tide as we enter the latter half the season.

You’ll hear Tripp give his Faramir-level quality recap of the episode, discussions about our favorite themes, philosophical deep dives, and, of course, the silliest of jokes.

Be on the lookout for our livestream for Episode 6 and enjoy the episode!

This episode is brought to you by Elise Trudel Cedeño and Teaching with Magic, a podcast exploring the intersection of education, fantasy, and literacy. Elise explores the different ways that teachers in fiction and in the real world make magic for their students through interviews with Scholars in various fields about important topics in education, and you'll get to be a part of an ongoing conversation about why the imagination matters. Find Teaching with Magic anywhere you get your podcasts and onYouTube. You can also joinTeaching with Magic’s Patreon if you want to support the show and get some extra benefits: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=53024227

There is also a Tolkien Pop! library in the “about” section of the Tolkien Pop! Substack, where you can check out some of the books on Tolkien I have and am reading as well as those that I have reviewed. Checkout my library page here and see if anything strikes your fancy: https://tolkienpop.substack.com/about

This post is also brought to you by Prime Video, where you can sign up for a 30-day free trial. Use this link, catch up with The Rings of Power, and join in the future conversations on the Substack and YouTube: http://www.amazon.com/gp/video/primesignup

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Hey Tolkien Poppers!

This week, Tripp Fuller and I brought our friend Tom Webster on to talk our favorite character from Middle-earth (excluding Waldreg, of course!), Tom freaking Bombadil!

That’s right, Tom Bombadil makes his first on-screen debut in episode 4 of this season of The Rings of Power!

We discuss the plot lines of episode 4, fangirl over Tom Bombadil, and get process and relational with Tolkien and Tom.

Join us live Monday, September 9th at 8pm Central Standard Time on Homebrewed Christianity’s YouTube to get in on the conversation:

This episode is brought to you by

Elise Trudel Cedeño

and Teaching with Magic, a podcast exploring the intersection of education, fantasy, and literacy. Elise explores the different ways that teachers in fiction and in the real world make magic for their students through interviews with Scholars in various fields about important topics in education, and you'll get to be a part of an ongoing conversation about why the imagination matters. FindTeaching with Magicanywhere you get your podcasts and onYouTube. You can also joinTeaching with Magic’s Patreon if you want to support the show and get some extra benefits: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=53024227

There is also a Tolkien Pop! library in the “about” section of the Tolkien Pop! Substack, where you can check out some of the books on Tolkien I have and am reading as well as those that I have reviewed. Checkout my library page here and see if anything strikes your fancy: https://tolkienpop.substack.com/about

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Nick and Tripp Fuller return to give their thoughts on the three episode premier of Season 2 of The Rings of Power!

We discuss our favorite aspects of each episodes, the themes, its connection to Tolkien’s legendarium, and our spinoff show ideas - specifically for Waldreg: Maker of Mordor!

Join us live Monday, September 9th at 8pm Central Standard Time on Homebrewed Christianity’s YouTube to get in on the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/live/0ol37cE4qbY?si=awij9AYKcO3bP2b3

This episode is brought to you by Elise Trudel Cedeño and Teaching with Magic, a podcast exploring the intersection of education, fantasy, and literacy. Elise explores the different ways that teachers in fiction and in the real world make magic for their students through interviews with Scholars in various fields about important topics in education, and you'll get to be a part of an ongoing conversation about why the imagination matters. Find Teaching with Magic anywhere you get your podcasts and on YouTube. You can also join Teaching with Magic’s Patreon if you want to support the show and get some extra benefits: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=53024227

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Tripp Fuller from Homebrewed Christianity and Process This and I are back to talk The Rings of Power. On the eve of Season 2 of The Rings of Power, we come to you, at the turn of the tide. This was our pregame livestream this past Monday where we talk about Season 1, Tolkien's legendarium, our theories for Season 2, and, of course, Waldreg!

We will be livestreaming every Monday night at 8/9pm CST following the release of each episode this season, which you can catch on Tripp's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TrippFuller and for those of you who can’t join us live or prefer strictly audio forms of content consumption, we will upload the audio afterwards. It will be available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere you can get your podcasts!

Grab your Horn of Gondor and Second Breakfast and come join us on our adventure through The Rings of Power!

This post is brought to you by Theology Beer Camp: The Return of the God-Pods. This October 17-19 in Denver, CO you can come hang out with me and a bunch of other nerdy friends and talk Tolkien and other aspects of theology and philosophy. If you want to day drink and talk Tolkien, you can use code TOLKIENRING at checkout for $50 off your ticket for Theology Beer Camp 2024: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/theology-camp-the-return-of-the-god-pods-tickets-824208298207

Only five more days to get your tickets, so don’t miss out!

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In this Tolkien Pop! podcast recording, you’ll get to hear Dr. Craig Boyd give his talk on Hope & Despair in The Lord of the Rings at Theology Beer Camp: The God-Pods Strike Back in 2023 in Springfield, MO. Craig gave his talk at the Geek Stage during Beer Camp. The Geek Stage as well as Craig Boy will be returning to Theology Beer Camp 2024, so get stoked! Thanks to Tripp Fuller from Homebrewed Christianity and the crew at Systematic Geekology for the audio.

This podcast is brought to you by Theology Beer Camp: The Return of the God-Pods. This October 17-19 in Denver, CO you can come hang out with me and a bunch of other nerdy friends and talk Tolkien and other aspects of theology and philosophy. If you want to day drink and talk Tolkien, you can use code TOLKIENRING at checkout for $50 off your ticket for Theology Beer Camp 2024: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/theology-camp-the-return-of-the-god-pods-tickets-824208298207

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Hello There Tolkien Poppers!

Today I am excited to share with you the first audio offering from Tolkien Pop! This is all thanks to my friend Josh Noel, who is the founder and one of the many hosts at Systematic Geekology and The Whole Church podcasts who was kind enough to record this conversation and provide the audio. In this conversation, I talk with Josh along with Will and TJ, who are also hosts at SG and TWC as well as Ryan Dose from Across the Bifrost: The Mighty Thor Podcast about what Theology Beer Camp: The Return of the God-pods will look like this October. There’s only one week left to get early bird tickets before prices go up, so don’t forget to use code TOLKIENRING at checkout to get $25 off your ticket: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/theology-camp-the-return-of-the-god-pods-tickets-824208298207

We discuss our cultivated fellowship through our mutual friendship with Tripp Fuller, who has run Theology Beer Camp for almost a decade now, our past experiences at previous Theology Beer Camps, and what we anticipate for this year. All of us presented and ran the Geek Stage at TBC 2023, where we had an absolute nerdy blast with talks on Tolkien, Doctor Who, and Star Wars.

These pics are just a small portion of the trouble we got into at Beer Camp last year.

I won’t keep you any longer. Enjoy the our conversation and I hope to see you this October!

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