Episode 31: The Compassion of the Valar

In this episode we discuss the origins and nature of the Valar and how their individual natures necessarily informs their thought and worldviews in much deeper ways than the Children.
Episode NotesCitations

Tolkien, J.R.R. Morgoth’s Ring. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993.

Rutledge, A. A. (2012). “Justice is not Healing”: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Pauline Constructs in “Finwë and Míriel”. Tolkien Studies, 9, 59-73.

episode produced by James Pierson.

Episode 31: The Compassion of the Valar
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