Ned RaggettEpisode 84 of #ByTheBywater is up at #MegaphonicFM so come listen to @schwindter and #JaredPechacek and I talk about one of the...odder things #Tolkien got directly involved in with regard to his legendarium. On _The Road Goes Ever On_, in all its tune-filled ways. https://megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/84
Episode 82 of #ByTheBywater is live! @schwindter and #JaredPechacek and myself talk about the newly released short #Tolkien book #TheBovadiumFragments and, building off its themes, the question of what it means to say that Tolkien is an environmentalist. Hosted on #MegaphonicFM as always, art by Jared as ever! https://megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/82
The latest episode of #ByTheBywater is live on #MegaphonicFM -- this time out, @schwindter and #JaredPechacek and I talked about dragons in #Tolkien since there are a clutch of them indeed. Art by Jared as ever! https://megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/77
Episode 76 of #ByTheBywater is live on #MegaphonicFM -- listen to @schwindter and #JaredPechacek and I talk about Arnor and Angmar, two realms of Middle-earth #Tolkien created but never really talked much about. Art by Jared as always! https://megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/76
Episode 72 is live on #MegaphonicFM -- give an ear to our thoughts on one of the more minor characters in #Tolkien but easily one of the most memorable, the formidable Lobelia Sackville-Baggins -- art by #JaredPechacek as ever! https://megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/72
Episode 71 of #ByTheBywater is live on #MegaphonicFM so give an ear! Despair and hope are two key elements in the legendarium #Tolkien created and that's something always worth considering, but perhaps especially now. Art by #JaredPechacek as ever. https://megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/71
Ned Raggett (has moved!)Episode 70 of #ByTheBywater is live on #MegaphonicFM -- his time around @schwindter and #JaredPechaceck and I talked about the anime film _The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim_, based on a short #Tolkien story that made up the history of Rohan in LOTR's appendices. Art by Jared as ever! https://megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/70
Episode 64 of #ByTheBywater is live on #MegaphonicFM -- listen as @schwindter and I celebrate the appearance of #JaredPechacek's debut novel by collectively discussing what it means to resist #Tolkien as a determining influence in fantasy. Art from Jared as always! https://megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/64
Episode 62 of #ByTheBywater is live on #MegaphonicFM -- have a listen to @schwindter and #JaredPechacek and I talking about the Rohirrim. #Tolkien certainly made some striking characters, but left enough details and hints that makes you wonder more and more about their society itself. https://megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/62
The latest #ByTheBywater is live on #MegaphonicFM, looking at one of the biggest creative and academic drivers for #Tolkien -- #Beowulf. We touch on everything from his imagined fairy tale version of the story to of course his famous essay on the poem and more besides -- and of course the work itself! Art as ever by #JaredPechacek https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/60
60. Tolkien Dropping Bars. — Megaphonic.
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: Beowulf . The famed Old English poem, the longest extant poetic work in general preserved in that language, almost accidentally survived over the years until it became more widely recognized in the 1700s, including surviving a fire. It has sinc