Episode 30: Endurance in Hope - Nienna
As we bid farewell to 2020 and reflect on the trials and losses of the year, we open the new year with a discussion of Nienna, the valar of Grief and Sorrow, so we might "learn pity, and endurance in hope”.
Citations
Tolkien, J.R.R. Morgoth’s Ring. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993.
Larsen, Kristine. “The Power of Pity and Tears: The Evolution of Nienna in the Legendarium.” Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan. Mythopoeic Press, 2015, pp. 189- 203
episode produced by James Pierson.
