Ned Raggett (has moved!)Meantime those of us at #ByTheBywater would like to let you know -- we're back for the new year! Our 46th episode, this time on #Tolkien and two of his short non-Middle-earth works for children -- the goofy #MrBliss and the satirically silly -- and surprisingly emotional -- #Roverandom. Art from Jared, and listen in to he and I and @schwindter here: https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/46
46. Bad Performance Review as an Actual Plot Point. — Megaphonic.
Jared, Oriana and Ned start the new year with Ned’s choice of topic: the short children’s works Roverandom and Mr. Bliss . Tolkien has been described as a children’s author both with praise and disparagement over time, but a more accurate way to put it is that while he was busy working on his cycle