Mythmakers

By Oxford Centre for Fantasy

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Mythmakers is the podcast for fantasy fans and creatives, brought to you by the Oxford Centre for Fantasy. In each episode, we embark on an exploration of the world of fantasy—both classic and contemporary. From the stories behind your favourite series to expert tips for aspiring writers, we dive into books, films, TV shows, and the creative process behind them. Brought to you from the heart of Oxford—home to literary greats like J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Lewis Carroll—we continue the storytelling tradition in the very city where Narnia, Middle-earth, and even Wonderland took shape drawing on the city’s magical blend of ancient buildings, labyrinthine libraries, and gentle river meadows. Ready to step into the Wardrobe with us into your next big adventure? Visit https://oxfordcentreforfantasy.org/ to learn more!

Episode Date
Rock Music in Narnia and 1980s Fantasy Highlights
Jun 18, 2026
Then I Will Declare My Doom - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 4 Ch 6
Jun 11, 2026
Were you a friend of Boromir? - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 4 Ch 5
Jun 04, 2026
The Rainshadow Orphans: Naomi Ishiguro and Anime Inspired Fantasy
May 28, 2026
Something Hot Out of the Pot - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 4 Ch 4
May 21, 2026
The Best Fantasy Books of the 1990s
May 14, 2026
Galahad and the Grail: Malcolm Guite Is on a Quest
May 07, 2026
Nursery Toys, Their Fantastical Journeys and Which Is the Best Cinematic Universe
Apr 30, 2026
Casting, Colbert and Contracts: Big News of Lotr Films and the Best Way to Get a Book Contract
Apr 23, 2026
The Call: Peadar Ó Guilín, Irish Fantasy and the Nature of Fairy Stories
Apr 16, 2026
Notorious Virtues: Alwyn Hamilton and a 1920s Heiress Fantasy
Apr 09, 2026
Mammoth Rider: SJ Poyton's Long Road to Publishing
Apr 02, 2026
Celebrating King Arthur on Tolkien Reading Day
Mar 26, 2026
I Know No Other Way - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 4 Ch 3
Mar 19, 2026
Dead Faces in the Water! - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 4 Ch 2
Mar 12, 2026
LOTR: An Author's Journey - Wrap Up of The Two Towers, Book 3
Mar 05, 2026
He's Much More Dangerous than He Looks - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 4 Ch 1
Feb 26, 2026
A Most Unquenchable Hobbit! - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 11
Feb 19, 2026
Love Is in the Air: Romance and Fantasy
Feb 12, 2026
Come Back, Saruman! - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 10
Feb 05, 2026
Chamber of Secrets and the Most Famous Film You've (Probably) Never Heard Of!
Jan 29, 2026
One Who Cannot Cast Away a Treasure at Need Is in Fetters - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 9
Jan 22, 2026
Classical Stories and Fantasy: The Birder and Other Tales
Jan 15, 2026
You Have Passed My Score by One - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 8
Jan 08, 2026
Christmas in Narnia or Middle-earth: the Pros and Cons
Dec 25, 2025
Tolkien, Lewis, the Inklings and Audiobooks
Dec 18, 2025
Pullman on Audio: Our Verdict!
Dec 11, 2025
Devilry of Saruman - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 7
Dec 04, 2025
75th Anniversary of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - How Does It Read Today?
Nov 27, 2025
Dark Have Been My Dreams of Late - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 6
Nov 20, 2025
Wingardium Leviosa! Harry Potter Audiobook With Full Cast: Our Verdict
Nov 13, 2025
At the Turn of the Tide - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 5
Nov 06, 2025
Greta Gerwig's Narnia
Oct 30, 2025
Root and Twig - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 4
Oct 23, 2025
The Circle of Shadows: Dark Academia with Marisa Linton
Oct 16, 2025
Can't Take His Medicine - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 3
Oct 09, 2025
Thirst: Horror Folk Stories, Uncanny Rivers and the Walking Dead
Oct 02, 2025
Not Idly Do The Leaves Of Lorien Fall - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 2
Sep 25, 2025
Marve and the Firstborn of the Sun: Mining Your Culture for New Fantasy Ideas
Sep 18, 2025
Forth the Three Hunters! - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 3 Ch 1
Sep 11, 2025
Climate Change and Fantasy: H.S. Norup and The Changeling Child
Sep 04, 2025
Mythmakers Encore: Andy Serkis Audio Book of The Lord of the Rings - Our Verdict
Aug 28, 2025
Mythmakers Encore: Did Peter Jackson Get It Right? The Return of the King Movie Reconsidered
Aug 21, 2025
Mythmakers Encore: Did Peter Jackson Get It Right? The Two Towers Movie Reconsidered
Aug 14, 2025
Mythmakers Encore: Did Peter Jackson Get It Right? The Fellowship of the Ring Movie Reconsidered
Aug 07, 2025
Mythmakers Encore: Tolkien's Modern Reading with Holly Ordway
Jul 31, 2025
Mythmakers Encore: The Oddest Inkling - Charles Williams with Sørina Higgins
Jul 24, 2025
Mythmakers Encore: The Wonderful Worlds Of TA White
Jul 17, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: Wrap Up of The Fellowship of the Ring
Jul 10, 2025
Mythmakers Season 7 Wrap Up
Jul 03, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 10
Jun 26, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 9
Jun 19, 2025
Emily J. Taylor: The Otherwhere Post
Jun 12, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 8
Jun 05, 2025
Tolkien's Tales from the Perilous Realm
May 29, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 7
May 22, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 6
May 15, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 5
May 08, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 4
May 01, 2025
William Morris, Tolkien and The House of the Wolfings
Apr 24, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 3
Apr 17, 2025
Tolkien the Poet: Our verdict on the New Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien
Apr 10, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 2
Apr 03, 2025
The Curse of the Silvan Oaks: Meet Debut Fantasy Writer, Georgia Channon
Mar 27, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 2 Chapter 1
Mar 20, 2025
Twenty-First Century Tolkien: Prof Nick Groom and What Tolkien Means to Us Today—Part 2
Mar 13, 2025
Twenty-First Century Tolkien: Prof Nick Groom and What Tolkien Means to Us Today—Part 1
Mar 06, 2025
Dr Eleanor Baker: Book of Curses and the Power of the Word
Feb 27, 2025
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 12
Feb 20, 2025
The Discarded Image and the Key to Narnia
Feb 13, 2025
Dragons, Victorians and Forests: Professor John Holmes on Performing Tolkien's Lecture, William Morris and Much More!
Feb 06, 2025
The War of the Rohirrim: Our Verdict
Jan 30, 2025
Mythmakers Season 6 Wrap Up
Jan 16, 2025
Hannah Kingsley: Soul Hate and Battling Your Fate
Jan 09, 2025
Set sail with Rose Black and her Fantasy Pirate Adventure: Fated Winds and Promising Seas
Jan 02, 2025
Helen Glynn Jones and The Last Raven: Vampires, Humans and Other Monsters
Dec 26, 2024
Tad Williams and the Navigator's Children: How to Wrap up a Vast Epic Fantasy
Dec 19, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 11
Dec 12, 2024
Mythmakers meets The Mythmakers: John Hendrix and his Graphic Novel about Tolkien and Lewis
Dec 05, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 10
Nov 28, 2024
Let's talk about mermaids: Berlie Doherty, Tamsin Rosewell and The Seamaiden's Odyssey
Nov 21, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 9
Nov 14, 2024
C.S. Lewis's Oxford
Nov 07, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 8
Oct 31, 2024
Heroes and Villains: Ana Sampson and Chris Riddell
Oct 24, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 7
Oct 17, 2024
The Rings of Power Season 2: The Verdict
Oct 11, 2024
Kate Dylan: Until We Shatter and 'New Adult' Fantasy
Oct 03, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 6
Sep 26, 2024
This Ravenous Fate: Hayley Dennings, Vampires and the Harlem Renaissance
Sep 19, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 5
Sep 12, 2024
Megan Whalen Turner: The Queen's Thief and the Secret of a Long Career as a Fantasy Writer
Sep 05, 2024
Mythmakers Season 5 Wrap Up
Aug 22, 2024
We Review The Letters of JRR Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition
Aug 08, 2024
Samantha Shannon: The Bone Season 10th Anniversary Edition
Aug 01, 2024
Movies Showing Nowhere: Yorick Goldewijk and Memories in Fantasy
Jul 25, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 4
Jul 18, 2024
Who's your Robin Hood: T.K. Hall & 'Shadow of the Wolf'
Jul 11, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 3
Jul 04, 2024
The Twelve: Liz Hyder and Timeslip Fantasy
Jun 27, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 2
Jun 20, 2024
The War of the Rohirrim: New LotR Film
Jun 13, 2024
Sidecast - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Book 1 Chapter 1
Jun 06, 2024
Lucy Strange: The Island at the Edge of Night
May 30, 2024
The Rings of Power, Season 2: Our Hopes and Fears
May 23, 2024
Hunt for Gollum: What Might Be in Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis' New Film
May 16, 2024
Should Dark Lords be Rationed? Evil in Fantasy - Part 2
May 09, 2024
Should Dark Lords be Rationed? Evil in Fantasy - Part 1
May 02, 2024
Top 5 Moments in The Lord of the Rings
Apr 25, 2024
Historical v. Fantasy Fiction
Apr 18, 2024
Romantasy: Rebecca Yarros and the Latest Fantasy Craze
Apr 11, 2024
Cultural Takeover? 3 Body Problem and Other Adaptations
Apr 04, 2024
Percy Jackson... Our Verdict on the Adaptations
Mar 28, 2024
Damsels Not in Distress
Mar 21, 2024
New Zealand and Peter Jackson
Mar 14, 2024
The Oscars and Fantasy Movies
Mar 07, 2024
Mythmakers Season 4 Wrap Up: Season Highlights
Dec 14, 2023
Universes - Good or Bad for Creativity
Dec 07, 2023
The Dr Who Episode: Steve Cole and MG Harris - Part 2
Nov 30, 2023
The Dr Who Episode: Steve Cole and MG Harris - Part 1
Nov 23, 2023
CS Lewis 60 Years On
Nov 16, 2023
David D. Levine: The Kuiper Belt Job – Part 2
Nov 09, 2023
David D. Levine: The Kuiper Belt Job – Part 1
Nov 02, 2023
Vampires v. Werewolves - the Halloween Edition
Oct 26, 2023
Result of the Oxford/Pushkin Children's Fantasy Prize
Oct 19, 2023
Fantasy Writing - Why Go Small?
Oct 12, 2023
Anna Waterworth - The Girl Who Grew Wings
Oct 05, 2023
Why it is dangerous to study Tolkien?
Sep 28, 2023
An Evening with the Inklings - JRR Tolkien
Sep 21, 2023
An Evening with the Inklings - Owen Barfield
Sep 14, 2023
The Rings of Power v. The Lord of the Rings Musical
Sep 07, 2023
An Evening with the Inklings - Meet the Inklings Experts
Aug 31, 2023
Tolkien's Faith - a Spiritual Biography
Aug 25, 2023
Andy Serkis Reads The Silmarillion - The Verdict (Season 4 Premiere!)
Aug 17, 2023
Mythmakers Season 3 Finale: The Tolkien Top 5
Jun 22, 2023
Best and Worst Fathers in The Lord of the Rings
Jun 15, 2023
Celebrating Fantasy Illustrators - John Tenniel
Jun 09, 2023
From Colours to Makeovers – Mythmakers Ask us Anything
Jun 01, 2023
Tolkien's Modern Reading with Holly Ordway
May 26, 2023
The Hobbit Tea Party - Readathon Livestream
May 18, 2023
Behind the Scenes at the Oxford Centre for Fantasy – Part 2: Where Next?
May 11, 2023
Top Ten Fantasy Royals - Coronation Special
May 04, 2023
Behind the Scenes at the Oxford Centre for Fantasy – Part 1: How We Got Here
Apr 27, 2023
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - Our Verdict
Apr 20, 2023
AI Revolution: What should writers and artists do? Part 2: Text
Apr 13, 2023
AI Revolution: What should writers and artists do? Part 1: Images
Apr 06, 2023
Eggs! Cracking open Myths and Legends
Mar 31, 2023
Tolkien and Creativity: Creation as Jazz - Part 2
Mar 23, 2023
Tolkien and Creativity: Creation as Jazz - Part 1
Mar 17, 2023
Katherine Livesey: Girls in Love
Mar 09, 2023
Jennifer Hayashi Danns: Adventures with Gender
Mar 03, 2023
H.S. Norup: Do Faeries Need a Makeover?
Feb 23, 2023
Lilly Inkwood and the Fantasy Spy Thriller
Feb 16, 2023
The Problem with Orcs
Feb 09, 2023
Tolkien 50 Years On
Feb 02, 2023
Season 3 Premiere! - Rabbits in Fantasy
Jan 22, 2023
Mythmakers Season 2 Finale - Seasonal Round-Up
Dec 21, 2022
Bramble Fox - Prize-Winning German Fantasy Writer, Kathrin Tordasi, and Portal Fantasy
Nov 30, 2022
Retelling Fairytales - A Lost Writer We Need To Rediscover - Madame D'Aulnoy
Nov 23, 2022
The Silmarillion Readathon Livestream Event
Nov 16, 2022
Must-read Fantasy Novels - A Christmas Carol
Nov 09, 2022
Surprised by Oxford - Academic and author Carolyn Weber on her book and biopic about her experience in the city
Nov 02, 2022
The Rings of Power Livestream
Oct 26, 2022
Best Of Mythmakers Replay: Oxford As A Fantasy Hotspot
Oct 20, 2022
Must-Read Fantasy Novels - Frankenstein
Oct 12, 2022
Rings of Power - Halfway Point Check In
Oct 05, 2022
Everything You Need To Know About The Silmarillion But Were Too Afraid To Ask (Part 2)
Sep 28, 2022
Everything You Need To Know About The Silmarillion But Were Too Afraid To Ask
Sep 21, 2022
The Spell Tailors: A Magical Book Launch with Elizabeth Clark and James Nicol
Sep 14, 2022
First Reactions To The Rings Of Power (Amazon Prime)
Sep 07, 2022
Rings of Power - The Story Perspective (Amazon Prime)
Aug 30, 2022
The Welsh Episode with Claire Fayers - Part 2
Aug 29, 2022
The Welsh Episode with Claire Fayers - Part 1
Aug 24, 2022
What about the stone-giants? A user's guide to the giantic in Tolkien and elsewhere - Part 2
Aug 17, 2022
What about the stone-giants? A user's guide to the giantic in Tolkien and elsewhere - Part 1
Aug 09, 2022
A Publisher's Perspective: the Pushkin Press and Fantasy in Translation Part 2 of 2 - Guest Daniel Seton
Aug 02, 2022
A Publisher's Perspective: the Pushkin Press and Fantasy in Translation Part 1 of 2 - Guest Daniel Seton
Jul 28, 2022
Alice Worth Series and Writing Urban Fantasy - Part 2 of 2
Jul 21, 2022
Alice Worth Series and Writing Urban Fantasy - Part 1
Jul 12, 2022
Stargazy Pies And Imperial Stories - Part 2
Jul 05, 2022
Stargazy Pies And Imperial Stories - Part 1
Jun 29, 2022
Space Opera and Fantasy from Down Under
Jun 23, 2022
From Fairly Odd-Parents To The Garden: A Life In Animation With Butch Hartman
Jun 06, 2022
Bonus Podcast: Top Ten Fantasy Royals
Jun 02, 2022
King Arthur and the Tolkien Lecture
May 30, 2022
Bonus Podcast: Readathon Live Event!
May 28, 2022
Top Five Fantasy Books - Audio Version With Guest Andrew Head
May 23, 2022
From Dragon-ridden To Firebird Chronicles: The Wonderful Worlds Of TA White
May 16, 2022
Lord of Stariel: An Independent Route To Publishing
May 09, 2022
Fantastic Beast: Secrets of Dumbledore Film Review
May 03, 2022
Did Peter Jackson Get It Right? - The Return of the King Movie Reconsidered
Mar 24, 2022
The Dog Episode - with SQuire and Louise DuArt Rushnell
Mar 17, 2022
Did Peter Jackson get it right? - The Two Towers movie reconsidered - with Jacob Rennaker
Mar 10, 2022
Did Peter Jackson Get It Right? - The Fellowship of the Ring Movie Reconsidered
Mar 03, 2022
The Oddest Inkling - Charles William... with Sørina Higgins
Feb 24, 2022
A Magical Blend: Writing Historical Fantasies...with Lucy Strange
Feb 17, 2022
The problem With Witches...With James Nicol
Feb 10, 2022
Bingo, Odo and Frodo: Tolkien, Lewis And The Discovery Writer
Feb 03, 2022
The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Title Reveal
Jan 27, 2022
Review of The Nature of Middle-earth by JRR Tolkien ed. Carl F. Hostetter
Jan 12, 2022
Spiderman No Way Home - a review of all things Spidey!
Jan 06, 2022
From Sir Gawain to COVID: A Composer's view of storytelling and fantasy
Dec 31, 2021
William Morris - the incredible life of the man who influenced the Inklings
Dec 24, 2021
Tolkien And The Nature Of Good And Evil
Dec 15, 2021
LIVE STREAM Replay: Always Winter and Never Christmas?
Dec 01, 2021
The Oxford Story Museum
Dec 01, 2021
Where Can You Find A Real Warg? Elfdalian and Tolkien's Languages
Nov 24, 2021
Beyond Andy Serkis - Other Audiobook Versions of Tolkien's Works
Nov 17, 2021
On Re-reading The Lord of the Rings
Nov 10, 2021
Tolkien and Transcendent Beauty - A Theologian’s Perspective
Nov 03, 2021
Fantasy Subcultures - from Dungeons & Dragons to LARPing - find out more from an expert
Oct 27, 2021
A Life In Film Making - The Star Wars Episode!
Oct 20, 2021
Mythmakers Go To War
Oct 13, 2021
Andy Serkis Audio book of The Lord of the Rings - Our Verdict
Oct 06, 2021
Recent Big Fantasy Dramas - From The Witcher To The New Amazon Tolkien Series
Sep 29, 2021
The Second Age - Amazon Series Livestream (Podcast Replay)
Sep 22, 2021
Comic Book City
Sep 15, 2021
The Magic of Middle Earth
Sep 08, 2021
Things You Don't Know About Tolkien, CS Lewis And Oxford
Sep 01, 2021
Oxford As A Fantasy Hotspot
Aug 26, 2021
Mythmakers - The Trailer
Aug 16, 2021