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Episode Date
Week 041 - Third Age Thursday: Interfering Old Busybody
May 02, 2024
Week 041 - Word-nerd Wednesday: An Andoran Anthology
May 01, 2024
Week 041 - Tolkien Tuesday: Nothing Godlike or Angelic About Him
Apr 30, 2024
Week 041 - Mailbag Monday: Maybe It’s the Mediterranean Diet?
Apr 29, 2024
Week 040 - Second Age Saturday: Rather is She My Foe
Apr 27, 2024
Week 040 - First Age Friday: Like a Silver Jewel Set in the Heavens
Apr 26, 2024
Week 040 - Third Age Thursday: Why Worry? He Hasn’t Taken the Vittles!
Apr 25, 2024
Week 040 - Word-nerd Wednesday: We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Wednesday
Apr 24, 2024
Week 040 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Old ‘Dying God’ Story
Apr 23, 2024
Week 040 - Mailbag Monday: And I Was Meant to Answer This Question
Apr 22, 2024
Week 039 - Second Age Saturday: Unwilling To Be Bound
Apr 20, 2024
Week 039 - First Age Friday: Starlit Years On Earth Go By
Apr 19, 2024
Week 039 - Third Age Thursday: Immensely Fond Of You All
Apr 18, 2024
Week 039 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Base 12 For the Win
Apr 17, 2024
Week 039 - Tolkien Tuesday: Things You Can Never Say Again
Apr 16, 2024
Week 039 - Mailbag Monday: What About Their LinkedIn Profiles?
Apr 15, 2024
Week 038 - Second Age Saturday: Amid the Coldness of Others
Apr 13, 2024
Week 038 - First Age Friday: Or Flee the Land of Barahir
Apr 12, 2024
Week 038 - Third Age Thursday: The Art of Gandalf Improved With Age
Apr 11, 2024
Week 038 - Word-nerd Wednesday: I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means
Apr 10, 2024
Week 038 - Tolkien Tuesday: Frightful 18th Century!!!
Apr 09, 2024
Week 038 - Mailbag Monday: Not the Family Reunion You’re Looking For
Apr 08, 2024
Week 037 - Second Age Saturday: Cold is the Life of a Mariner’s Wife
Apr 06, 2024
Week 037 - First Age Friday: Of Will Defeated, Broken Faith
Apr 05, 2024
Week 037 - Third Age Thursday: Stop Even Pretending, Gaffer
Apr 04, 2024
Week 037 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What’s With the Fat Jokes, Ronald?
Apr 03, 2024
Week 037 - Tolkien Tuesday: Chiefly As a Poet
Apr 02, 2024
Week 037 - Mailbag Monday: Sure, It Kindles Hearts — But Can It Blend?
Apr 01, 2024
Week 036 - Second Age Saturday: Sowed the Seeds of Restlessness
Mar 30, 2024
Week 036 - First Age Friday: Have Thy Pay!
Mar 29, 2024
Week 036 - Third Age Thursday: We Could Do With a Bit More Queerness
Mar 28, 2024
Week 036 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Rebuking His Impertinence
Mar 27, 2024
Week 036 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Thought I Was the Only One
Mar 26, 2024
Week 036 - Mailbag Monday: Short-lived and Weaker Race
Mar 25, 2024
Week 035 - Second Age Saturday: But They Looked Far Away
Mar 23, 2024
Week 035 - First Age Friday: Of Land Bereaved and Lordship Shorn
Mar 22, 2024
Week 035 - Third Age Thursday: And Jools, By What I’ve Heard
Mar 21, 2024
Week 035 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ranugad Galbasi, the Font of Hobbit Wisdom
Mar 20, 2024
Week 035 - Tolkien Tuesday: Beer & Beowulf
Mar 19, 2024
Week 035 - Mailbag Monday: I Like Big Boats and I Cannot Lie
Mar 18, 2024
Week 034 - Second Age Saturday: Ready to Mirth, and Generous
Mar 16, 2024
Week 034 - First Age Friday: Laughter Merry as the Spring
Mar 15, 2024
Week 034 - Third Age Thursday: Like Coming Home
Mar 14, 2024
Week 034 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Running Private Jokes
Mar 13, 2024
Week 034 - Tolkien Tuesday: Liberal Studies Majors, Beware
Mar 12, 2024
Week 034 - Mailbag Monday: Maybe He Left the Oven On?
Mar 11, 2024
Week 033 - Silmarillion Saturday: Never Drinking That Wine Again
Feb 24, 2024
Week 033 - Fandom Friday: The Executive Board of Team Faramir
Feb 23, 2024
Week 033 - Third Age Thursday: Felt the Need of Wisdom
Feb 22, 2024
Week 033 - Word-nerd Wednesday: It Presents Me With Difficulty
Feb 21, 2024
Week 033 - Tolkien Tuesday: No Pubs Lately
Feb 20, 2024
Week 033 - Mailbag Monday: Who’s Buried in Elendil’s Tomb?
Feb 19, 2024
Week 032 - Silmarillion Saturday: Literally red-handed
Feb 17, 2024
Week 032 - Fandom Friday: What a Lovely Smial
Feb 16, 2024
Week 032 - Third Age Thursday: Enyalië!
Feb 15, 2024
Week 032 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What About Frosty the Lossoth?
Feb 14, 2024
Week 032 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Red Admiral
Feb 13, 2024
Week 032 - Mailbag Monday: The Nakedest Dragonet
Feb 12, 2024
Week 031 - Silmarillion Saturday: For That Woe is Past
Feb 10, 2024
Week 031 - Fandom Friday: Not Jealous At All, At All — A Conversation with Bill Fliss and Sarah Schaefer
Feb 09, 2024
Week 031 - Third Age Thursday: As True Men
Feb 08, 2024
Week 031 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Knows No Season and Withers Not
Feb 07, 2024
Week 031 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Sum Total of Last Week’s Amusements
Feb 06, 2024
Week 031 - Mailbag Monday: Aren’t You a Little Underwhelming for a Maia?
Feb 05, 2024
Week 030 - Silmarillion Saturday: Love Not Too Well
Feb 03, 2024
Week 030 - Fandom Friday: A Númenórean Sea Shanty - Phil Dean
Feb 02, 2024
Week 030 - Third Age Thursday: The Whispering Wood
Feb 01, 2024
Week 030 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Beacons of Gondor Are… Etymologically Interesting
Jan 31, 2024
Week 030 - Tolkien Tuesday: Be Of Good Heart
Jan 30, 2024
Week 030 - Mailbag Monday: Given to Rhetorical Superlatives
Jan 29, 2024
Week 029 - Silmarillion Saturday: Save One Only
Jan 27, 2024
Week 029 - Fandom Friday: The Tolkienist’s Take on Tolkien Talks and Tolkien Tage: A Visit with Marcel Aubron-Bülles
Jan 26, 2024
Week 029 - Third Age Thursday: Rochon Methestel
Jan 25, 2024
Week 029 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Fierce and Fabled
Jan 24, 2024
Week 029 - Tolkien Tuesday: Not Too Quick in the Uptake
Jan 23, 2024
Week 029 - Mailbag Monday: Tiptoe To the Mewlips
Jan 22, 2024
Week 028 - Silmarillion Saturday: As He Ever Shall Be
Jan 20, 2024
Week 028 - Fandom Friday: Sara It Was, and Dr. Brown Also
Jan 19, 2024
Week 028 - Third Age Thursday: Riders of Great Courage
Jan 18, 2024
Week 028 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Númenoréan Month or Prescription Medication?
Jan 17, 2024
Week 028 - Tolkien Tuesday: Grim Grinning… Drawer Handles?
Jan 16, 2024
Week 028 - Mailbag Monday: Túrin, Túna, and, uh… Celeborn
Jan 15, 2024
Week 027 - Silmarillion Saturday: As a Naked Flame
Jan 13, 2024
Week 027 - Fandom Friday: Pity, Power, and a Chat with Tom Hillman
Jan 12, 2024
Week 027 - Third Age Thursday: Which None Could Then Foresee
Jan 11, 2024
Week 027 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The (Great) Green Region
Jan 10, 2024
Week 027 - Tolkien Tuesday: Hi Dad, Send Cash
Jan 09, 2024
Week 027 - Mailbag Monday: Gandalf as a Dwarf?
Jan 08, 2024
Week 026 - Silmarillion Saturday: Dust Off the Piñata
Jan 06, 2024
Week 026 - Fandom Friday: The Full English: Chris Newton from A Book At Breakfast
Jan 05, 2024
Week 026 - Third Age Thursday: And You Thought You’d Avoid Gothic
Jan 04, 2024
Week 026 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Because ‘Horse-People’ is Boring
Jan 03, 2024
Week 026 - Tolkien Tuesday: All That Over a Comma
Jan 02, 2024
Week 026 - Mailbag Monday: Something About Rope
Jan 01, 2024
Week 025 - Fancy a Game of Snapdragons?
Dec 23, 2023
Week 025 - Rory Bory Aylis
Dec 22, 2023
Week 025 - Dreadfully Busy
Dec 21, 2023
Week 025 - A Letter for the LEGO Fans
Dec 20, 2023
Week 025 - Dramatis Personae
Dec 19, 2023
Week 025 - Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe
Dec 18, 2023
Week 024 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Elves Know Not
Nov 25, 2023
Week 024 - Fandom Friday: Time Flies When Your Book is Awesome — John Garth
Nov 24, 2023
Week 024 - Third Age Thursday: Look After Your Darling
Nov 23, 2023
Week 024 - Word-nerd Wednesday: What Do Fëanor and Dol Guldur Have in Common?
Nov 22, 2023
Week 024 - Tolkien Tuesday: Pipe-smoking and Chin-wagging
Nov 21, 2023
Week 024 - Mailbag Monday: Linked In, Middle-earth
Nov 20, 2023
Week 023 - Silmarillion Saturday: Where Every Leaf is Green
Nov 18, 2023
Week 023 - Fandom Friday: The Tolkien Professor
Nov 17, 2023
Week 023 - Third Age Thursday: He Was Getting Greedy and Fat
Nov 16, 2023
Week 023 - Word-nerd Wednesday: (The Rest of) The Many Names of Gandalf
Nov 15, 2023
Week 023 - Tolkien Tuesday: Time For You To Go, George
Nov 14, 2023
Week 023 - Mailbag Monday: Not a David Letterman Top 10
Nov 13, 2023
Week 022 - Silmarillion Saturday: I Think You Know What That Word Means
Nov 11, 2023
Week 022 - Fandom Friday: A Love of Letters — Phil Walch from Tolkien Collector’s Guide
Nov 10, 2023
Week 022 - Third Age Thursday: Brooding On His Wrongs
Nov 09, 2023
Week 022 - Word-nerd Wednesday: (Some of) The Many Names of Gandalf
Nov 08, 2023
Week 022 - Tolkien Tuesday: An Assault on Finnish
Nov 07, 2023
Week 022 - Mailbag Monday: No, YOU Be the Mortal One
Nov 06, 2023
Week 021 - Silmarillion Saturday: Master of Thralls
Nov 04, 2023
Week 021 - Fandom Friday: Silmaremily: At the Crossroads of Faramir and… Taylor Swift?
Nov 03, 2023
Week 021 - Third Age Thursday: No Queen in Gondor
Nov 02, 2023
Week 021 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Surprise - the Hobbits Named Something After a Drink
Nov 01, 2023
Week 021 - Tolkien Tuesday: Certain Among the Gods
Oct 31, 2023
Week 021 - Mailbag Monday: Past Their Expiration Date
Oct 30, 2023
Week 020 - Silmarillion Saturday: A Greedy Love
Oct 28, 2023
Week 020 - Fandom Friday: Real Elvish - a Chat with Fiona Jallings
Oct 27, 2023
Week 020 - Third Age Thursday: A Chance Meeting
Oct 26, 2023
Week 020 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Orcs, Uruks, and Balrogs - Oh My!
Oct 25, 2023
Week 020 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Nerd’s Nerd
Oct 24, 2023
Week 020 - Mailbag Monday: To Me, All Are One
Oct 23, 2023
Week 019 - Silmarillion Saturday: Fast Bound to These Things
Oct 21, 2023
Week 019 - Fandom Friday: How Much Can One Man Do? A Chat with James Tauber
Oct 20, 2023
Week 019 - Third Age Thursday: To the Anvil!
Oct 19, 2023
Week 019 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Because It’s a Cantrip
Oct 18, 2023
Week 019 - Tolkien Tuesday: Didn’t We All Read Chaucer By Age 10?
Oct 17, 2023
Week 019 - Mailbag Monday: Let Me Explain. No, There Is Too Much.
Oct 16, 2023
Week 018 - Silmarillion Saturday: Rather Than to Master Them
Oct 14, 2023
Week 018 - Fandom Friday: More Tolkien With Friends with Andie
Oct 13, 2023
Week 018 - Third Age Thursday: Another Beggar At My Doors
Oct 12, 2023
Week 018 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Tolkien Enjoys a Little Homebrew
Oct 11, 2023
Week 018 - Tolkien Tuesday: It Is Rougher Further On
Oct 10, 2023
Week 018 - Mailbag Monday: A Casual Reference to the Necromancer
Oct 09, 2023
Week 017 - Silmarillion Saturday: Few Ever Changed His Courses By Counsel, None By Force
Oct 07, 2023
Week 017 - Fandom Friday: Shawn Marchese, The Lord of the Mark
Oct 06, 2023
Week 017 - Third Age Thursday: The Ancestor of All the Kings of the Longbeards
Oct 05, 2023
Week 017 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The First Elvish Word in the OED (hint: it’s not mellon)
Oct 04, 2023
Week 017 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Great Twin Brethren
Oct 03, 2023
Week 017 - Mailbag Monday: Tulkas, Eönwë, and Túrin Walk Into a Bar…
Oct 02, 2023
Week 016 - Silmarillion Saturday: No Men Allowed - Ossiriand’s Tough HOA
Sep 16, 2023
Week 016 - Fandom Friday: Dave Brons
Sep 15, 2023
Week 016 - Third Age Thursday: Falling Asleep Again
Sep 14, 2023
Week 016 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Counties and Quarters Just Don’t Cut It
Sep 13, 2023
Week 016 - Tolkien Tuesday: This One is, Unfortunately, a Pedantic Don
Sep 12, 2023
Week 016 - Mailbag Monday: The Man of the West: Third Cycle of Life?
Sep 11, 2023
Week 015 - Silmarillion Saturday: Outta My Way, I’m Harpin’ Here
Sep 09, 2023
Week 015 - Fandom Friday: Jess of the Shire, aka Part Time Hobbit
Sep 08, 2023
Week 015 - Third Age Thursday: Wine Out of a Golden Cup
Sep 07, 2023
Week 015 - Word-nerd Wednesday: There is a King Again, Little Masters
Sep 06, 2023
Week 015 - Tolkien Tuesday: What You Really Require is The Silmarillion
Sep 05, 2023
Week 015 - Mailbag Monday: Well and Truly Hallowed
Sep 04, 2023
Week 014 - Silmarillion Saturday: Take a Share In Its Hurts
Sep 02, 2023
Week 014 - Fandom Friday: Shaun Gunner, Chair of the Tolkien Society
Sep 01, 2023
Week 014 - Third Age Thursday: Newcomers and Gangrels
Aug 31, 2023
Week 014 - Word-nerd Wednesday: My Own Later Addiction
Aug 30, 2023
Week 014 - Tolkien Tuesday: Note to the BBC’s Sillification Department
Aug 29, 2023
Week 014 - Mailbag Monday: Math is Hard
Aug 28, 2023
Week 13 - Silmarillion Saturday: Unlovely In Looks
Aug 26, 2023
Week 13 - Fandom Friday: Please Judge This Book By Its Cover
Aug 25, 2023
Week 13 - Third Age Thursday: You Walk In Her Likeness
Aug 24, 2023
Week 13 - Word-nerd Wednesday: More Words, More Puns
Aug 23, 2023
Week 13 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Have Not Yet Received a Farthing
Aug 22, 2023
Week 13 - Mailbag Monday: Handsome Is As Handsome Does
Aug 21, 2023
Week 12 - Silmarillion Saturday: Always Marry Up
Aug 19, 2023
Week 12 - Fandom Friday: Kali from Voices of Arda and Tolkien With Friends
Aug 18, 2023
Week 12 - Third Age Thursday: There Is Too Much, Let Me Sum Up
Aug 17, 2023
Week 12 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Pedantry of Popularizing Botanists
Aug 16, 2023
Week 12 - Tolkien Tuesday: We Are Not Quite the Same Men
Aug 15, 2023
Week 12 - Mailbag Monday: Far-Sundered Places
Aug 14, 2023
Week 11 - Silmarillion Saturday: She Was Not Conquered
Aug 12, 2023
Week 11 - Fandom Friday: Happy Hobbit
Aug 11, 2023
Week 11 - Third Age Thursday: Tinúviel Was Dancing There
Aug 10, 2023
Week 11 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Hot As a Glede
Aug 09, 2023
Week 11 - Tolkien Tuesday: Fatal Attraction
Aug 08, 2023
Week 11 - Mailbag Monday: There’s A Little Black Spot on the Sun Today
Aug 07, 2023
Week 10 - Silmarillion Saturday: Thrall of the Valar
Aug 05, 2023
Week 10 - Fandom Friday: Teaching With Magic
Aug 04, 2023
Week 10 - Third Age Thursday: No Good Roastin’ ‘Em Now
Aug 03, 2023
Week 10 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Melodramatic Chestnuts
Aug 02, 2023
Week 10 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Great Deal Better Than I Feared
Aug 01, 2023
Week 10 - Mailbag Monday: The Other Shelves of the West
Jul 31, 2023
Week 9 - Silmarillion Saturday: Aurë Entuluva!
Jul 29, 2023
Week 9 - Fandom Friday: The Silmarillion Primer and Jeff LaSala
Jul 28, 2023
Week 9 - Third Age Thursday: Not Drawing-Room Fashion At All, At All
Jul 27, 2023
Week 9 - Word-nerd Wednesday: “Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!”
Jul 26, 2023
Week 9 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Wisely Started With a Map
Jul 25, 2023
Week 9 - Mailbag Monday: The Shelves of the West
Jul 24, 2023
Week 8 - Silmarillion Saturday: Trouble in Paradise
Jul 08, 2023
Week 8 - Fandom Friday: ArdaCraft — Recreating Middle-earth Brick by Brick
Jul 07, 2023
Week 8 - Third Age Thursday: Antiquated Information
Jul 06, 2023
Week 8 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Bane of My Existence
Jul 05, 2023
Week 8 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Real Snorter
Jul 04, 2023
Week 8 - Mailbag Monday: Dragon Logistics
Jul 03, 2023
Week 7 - Silmarillion Saturday: Aulë, You’re Grounded
Jul 01, 2023
Week 7 - Fandom Friday: Is There Really a Dwarf of the Year Award? There Should Be.
Jun 30, 2023
Week 7 - Third Age Thursday: Bad Guys Always Have the Best Lines
Jun 29, 2023
Week 7 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Archaic and Derogatory — A Halfling at Heart
Jun 28, 2023
Week 7 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Very Bad Time Indeed
Jun 27, 2023
Week 7 - Mailbag Monday: The State of the Show Address
Jun 26, 2023
Week 6 - Silmarillion Saturday: SPBMI Explained
Jun 24, 2023
Week 6 - Fandom Friday: Magic Man, Magic Cards
Jun 23, 2023
Week 6 - Third Age Thursday: Namarië!
Jun 22, 2023
Week 6 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Eald Enta Geweorc (Yes, That’s English)
Jun 21, 2023
Week 6 - Tolkien Tuesday: You Want HOW Much for That Book?
Jun 20, 2023
Week 6 - Mailbag Monday: Mission:Impossible — Gollum’s Escape From Moria
Jun 19, 2023
Week 5 - Silmarillion Saturday: Tuor Meets Ecthelion
Jun 17, 2023
Week 5 - Fandom Friday: Silmarillieanne
Jun 16, 2023
Week 5 - Third Age Thursday: The Gifts of Galadriel, part 2
Jun 15, 2023
Week 5 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Fellowship of Philology
Jun 14, 2023
Week 5 - Tolkien Tuesday: Don’t Drop the Ball
Jun 13, 2023
Week 5 - Mailbag Monday: Reading Order for All Things Tolkien
Jun 12, 2023
Week 4 - Silmarillion Saturday: Tuor and the Orfalch Echor
Jun 10, 2023
Week 4 - Fandom Friday: A Long-Expected Guest
Jun 09, 2023
Week 4 - Third Age Thursday: The Gifts of Galadriel, part 1
Jun 08, 2023
Week 4 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Tracking Down a Ranger
Jun 07, 2023
Week 4 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Professor’s Ultimatum
Jun 06, 2023
Week 4 - Mailbag Monday: When Was the Rammas Echor Really Built?
Jun 05, 2023
Week 3 - Silmarillion Saturday: When the Lights Go Down in the City
Jun 03, 2023
Week 3 - Fandom Friday: Kaitlyn from Tea With Tolkien
Jun 02, 2023
Week 3 - Third Age Thursday: A Proper Fourteen-Twenty
Jun 01, 2023
Week 3 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Say ‘Friend’ and Enter
May 31, 2023
Week 3 - Tolkien Tuesday: No Just Grievance
May 30, 2023
Week 3 - Mailbag Monday: Whatever Happened to Radagast?
May 29, 2023
Week 2 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Creation of the Silmarils
May 27, 2023
Week 2 - Fandom Friday: Jeremy Edmonds from Tolkien Collector's Guide
May 26, 2023
Week 2 - Third Age Thursday: Isildur's Redemption
May 25, 2023
Week 2 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Sauron and Saruman
May 24, 2023
Week 2 - Tolkien Tuesday: More Publishing Drama
May 23, 2023
Week 2 - Mailbag Monday: Is Dior mortal or immortal?
May 22, 2023
Week 1 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Making of the Trees
May 20, 2023
Week 1 - Fandom Friday: Matt from The Nerd of the Rings
May 19, 2023
Week 1 - Third Age Thursday: The Beauty of the Shire
May 18, 2023
Week 1 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Dwarves
May 17, 2023
Week 1 - Tolkien Tuesday: Not Letter #131
May 16, 2023
Week 1 - Mailbag Monday: Who Put the Ring On a New Chain?
May 15, 2023
Trailer and Launch Announcement!
May 08, 2023