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Episode 7: Thought Transmission and Elven Resurrection
Part 2 of our discussion of souls, eschatology, and the elven afterlife examines the properties inherent to fëa, including thought transmission, and then we discuss el...
Episode 6: Hröa and Fëa
Part 1 of what is currently planned to be a 3 part discussion of souls, eschatology, and the elven afterlife, culminating in a discussion of our podcast's namesake ess...
Episode 5: The Fallibility of Makers
The craftsmen, blacksmiths, and even celestial makers of Tolkien's middle-Earth frequently find themselves straying from the straight and narrow path laid out for them...
Episode 4: Halloween Special: Vampires, Werewolves and Wraiths OH MY
Happy Halloween from middle-Earth! In this episode we're exploring some of the season's traditional tropes as they appear in Tolkien's stories.
Episode 3: LotR Appendix A part 2: The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen
We conclude our discussion of Appendix A of the Lord of the Rings with the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen. We talk about what Aragorn is up to in the 30 years preceding the...
Episode 2: LotR Appendix A part 1: The Numenorean Kings
In this, the first of two episodes about Appendix A of the Lord of the Rings, we discuss the first section "The Numenorean Kings", and how the appendix opens up the Lo...
Episode 1: On Fairy Stories
In this, our first episode, your hosts introduce themselves, and then dive right in as we explore Tolkien’s 1939 lecture “On Fairy Stories”, a fundamental work in Tolk...
