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Episode Date
Week 118 - Tolkien Tuesday: Crabbed and Not Too Legible
May 26, 2026
Week 118 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Filth Unnameable
May 25, 2026
Week 117 - Silmarillion Saturday: And Yet Unvaliant
May 02, 2026
Week 117 - Friendship Friday: I Am Lonely
May 01, 2026
Week 117 - Third Age Thursday: It Is Difficult to Keep Awake Here
Apr 30, 2026
Week 117 - Word-nerd Wednesday: His Children’s Joy
Apr 29, 2026
Week 117 - Tolkien Tuesday: Petty Fencing
Apr 28, 2026
Week 117 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Just a Few More Little Steps
Apr 27, 2026
Week 116 - Silmarillion Saturday: Glittering and Bright
Apr 25, 2026
Week 116 - Friendship Friday: Brush Up My Toes
Apr 24, 2026
Week 116 - Third Age Thursday: Long It Endured
Apr 23, 2026
Week 116 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not One Star; All the Stars
Apr 22, 2026
Week 116 - Tolkien Tuesday: Never Mind the Critics
Apr 21, 2026
Week 116 - Middle-earth Map Monday: A Shapeless Fear
Apr 20, 2026
Week 115 - Silmarillion Saturday: And His Prayer Was Granted
Apr 18, 2026
Week 115 - Friendship Friday: Good Old Merry!
Apr 17, 2026
Week 115 - Third Age Thursday: That What Should Be Shall Be
Apr 16, 2026
Week 115 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Any Excuse At All, Really
Apr 15, 2026
Week 115 - Tolkien Tuesday: Blow Me Up
Apr 14, 2026
Week 115 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Corpse Candles and Carne Asada?
Apr 13, 2026
Week 114 - Silmarillion Saturday: Move Their Hearts to Pity
Apr 11, 2026
Week 114 - Friendship Friday: Not Yet Anyway
Apr 10, 2026
Week 114 - Third Age Thursday: An Island Amid Many Perils
Apr 09, 2026
Week 114 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Steep Streets
Apr 08, 2026
Week 114 - Tolkien Tuesday: With Tears As I Wrote
Apr 07, 2026
Week 114 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Despair… Postponed
Apr 06, 2026
Week 113 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Fairest of All the Children of the World
Apr 04, 2026
Week 113 - Friendship Friday: As Our Strength Lessens
Apr 03, 2026
Week 113 - Third Age Thursday: Valiant and Wise
Apr 02, 2026
Week 113 - Word-nerd Wednesday: On Top of Old Wet Head
Apr 01, 2026
Week 113 - Tolkien Tuesday: Now I Want a Grilled Cheese
Mar 31, 2026
Week 113 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Diseased Beyond All Healing
Mar 30, 2026
Week 112 - Silmarillion Saturday: With a Different Voice
Mar 28, 2026
Week 112 - Friendship Friday: I Was Serious
Mar 27, 2026
Week 112 - Third Age Thursday: Good People… Mostly
Mar 26, 2026
Week 112 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Frings — Not What you Thought
Mar 25, 2026
Week 112 - Tolkien Tuesday: Peacocks are Out
Mar 24, 2026
Week 112 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Always Creeping
Mar 23, 2026
Week 111 - Silmarillion Saturday: Be Gone Unrequited
Mar 21, 2026
Week 111 - Friendship Friday: Jump Down a Dragon’s Throat
Mar 20, 2026
Week 111 - Third Age Thursday: He Dwells There Still
Mar 19, 2026
Week 111 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not Your Average Garden Gnome
Mar 18, 2026
Week 111 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Am Not Satisfied with ‘Hobbits’
Mar 17, 2026
Week 111 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Twisted Knot of Hills
Mar 16, 2026
Week 110 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Things Crooked
Feb 21, 2026
Week 110 - First Age Friday: She Was Not Conquered
Feb 20, 2026
Week 110 - Third Age Thursday: Riders Tall and Fair
Feb 19, 2026
Week 110 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Surf’s Up!
Feb 18, 2026
Week 110 - Tolkien Tuesday: Insoluble Metrical Problems
Feb 17, 2026
Week 110 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The End of Gondor
Feb 16, 2026
Week 109 - Silmarillion Saturday: The First Evil
Feb 14, 2026
Week 109 - First Age Friday: You Lie
Feb 13, 2026
Week 109 - Third Age Thursday: A Bulwark of Gondor
Feb 12, 2026
Week 109 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ló and Behold
Feb 11, 2026
Week 109 - Tolkien Tuesday: The ‘Fan Mail’ Keeps On Coming In
Feb 10, 2026
Week 109 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Angbor the Fearless
Feb 09, 2026
Week 108 - Silmarillion Saturday: Hardly Better Than Orcs
Feb 07, 2026
Week 108 - First Age Friday: Time That Yet Lay Hidden
Feb 06, 2026
Week 108 - Third Age Thursday: Middle Man, Not Middle Management
Feb 05, 2026
Week 108 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Let x Be the Number of Rivers in a Land
Feb 04, 2026
Week 108 - Tolkien Tuesday: At Least as Capacious as Mine
Feb 03, 2026
Week 108 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Independent ‘Traditions’
Feb 02, 2026
Week 107 - Silmarillion Saturday: Bereft of Their Power and Glory
Jan 31, 2026
Week 107 - First Age Friday: Aurë entuluva! Day Shall Come Again!
Jan 30, 2026
Week 107 - Third Age Thursday: Fierce Folk When Roused
Jan 29, 2026
Week 107 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Better Late Than… Wandering?
Jan 28, 2026
Week 107 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Feel Inclined to Tell Him So
Jan 27, 2026
Week 107 - Middle-earth Map Monday: About That Beachfront Property…
Jan 26, 2026
Week 106 - Silmarillion Saturday: Hope Was Renewed
Jan 24, 2026
Week 106 - First Age Friday: “and Morgoth trembled…”
Jan 23, 2026
Week 106 - Third Age Thursday: A People Apart
Jan 22, 2026
Week 106 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Calling Count von Count
Jan 21, 2026
Week 106 - Tolkien Tuesday: Her Dragon is Absurd
Jan 20, 2026
Week 106 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Five Swift Streams
Jan 19, 2026
Week 105 - Silmarillion Saturday: Utúlie’n Aurë!
Jan 17, 2026
Week 105 - First Age Friday: Felt Old Age Creep Upon Him
Jan 16, 2026
Week 105 - Third Age Thursday: You Shall Be Summoned Once Again
Jan 15, 2026
Week 105 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Mistakes Were Likely to Be Made
Jan 14, 2026
Week 105 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Loathe It
Jan 13, 2026
Week 105 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Weed is Better Than I Thought
Jan 12, 2026
Week 104 - Silmarillion Saturday: Less Aid Than Should Have Been
Jan 10, 2026
Week 104 - First Age Friday: Both Fell to Ruin
Jan 09, 2026
Week 104 - Third Age Thursday: Black Sails Bellying in the Breeze
Jan 08, 2026
Week 104 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Little Tomfoolery
Jan 07, 2026
Week 104 - Tolkien Tuesday: Heraldic Overtones
Jan 06, 2026
Week 104 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Tour of Gondor Continues
Jan 05, 2026
Week 103 - Rude Little Errand Boy
Dec 20, 2025
Week 103 - One of the Cleverest Elves
Dec 19, 2025
Week 103 - A Letter Worth Hearing
Dec 18, 2025
Week 103 - Quite a Nasty Outbreak
Dec 17, 2025
Week 103 - Frightful Mischief
Dec 16, 2025
Week 103 - I Enjoyed it Immensely!
Dec 15, 2025
Week 102 - Silmarillion Saturday: Great in Strength Both of Mind and Body
Dec 06, 2025
Week 102 - First Age Friday: A Light Was in His Face as the Light of Heaven
Dec 05, 2025
Week 102 - Third Age Thursday: Enamored of Evil Knowledge
Dec 04, 2025
Week 102 - Word-nerd Wednesday: And Now for Something Completely Different
Dec 03, 2025
Week 102 - Tolkien Tuesday: Other and Duller Things
Dec 02, 2025
Week 102 - Middle-earth Map Monday: How Long Have I Been Asleep?
Dec 01, 2025
Week 101 - Silmarillion Saturday: At Least They Had Window Seats
Nov 29, 2025
Week 101 - First Age Friday: Word of the Woes Without
Nov 28, 2025
Week 101 - Third Age Thursday: Like a Glitter of Stars
Nov 27, 2025
Week 101 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ugly Shaggy Hair, Son of Ugly Beard
Nov 26, 2025
Week 101 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Don’t Know if They Have Any Virtue at All
Nov 25, 2025
Week 101 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Unconsuming Fire
Nov 24, 2025
Week 100 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Sons of Galdor
Nov 22, 2025
Week 100 - First Age Friday: Hasty Jottings
Nov 21, 2025
Week 100 - Third Age Thursday: He Did Not Like It Much
Nov 20, 2025
Week 100 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Mist of Fear
Nov 19, 2025
Week 100 - Tolkien Tuesday: Unmingled
Nov 18, 2025
Week 100 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Saxifrages and Stonecrops
Nov 17, 2025
Week 099 - Silmarillion Saturday: A Measure of Truth
Nov 15, 2025
Week 099 - First Age Friday: Greater and More Lordly
Nov 14, 2025
Week 099 - Third Age Thursday: For a Different Purpose
Nov 13, 2025
Week 099 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Baragund and Isildur’s Horse?
Nov 12, 2025
Week 099 - Tolkien Tuesday: A Farrago of Nonsense
Nov 11, 2025
Week 099 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Haughty and Ungenerous
Nov 10, 2025
Week 098 - Silmarillion Saturday: So By Perilous Paths
Nov 08, 2025
Week 098 - First Age Friday: As Moonlight Through a Glimmering Mist
Nov 07, 2025
Week 098 - Third Age Thursday: Strong and War-hardened
Nov 06, 2025
Week 098 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Back Away from the Elvish Dictionary, Sir
Nov 05, 2025
Week 098 - Tolkien Tuesday: Presumptuous Impertinence
Nov 04, 2025
Week 098 - Middle-earth Map Monday: How about Making-it-up Monday?
Nov 03, 2025
Week 097 - Silmarillion Saturday: Great Was the Lamentation
Nov 01, 2025
Week 097 - First Age Friday: No Escape… and No Returning
Oct 31, 2025
Week 097 - Third Age Thursday: Minds Filled with Hatred
Oct 30, 2025
Week 097 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Maybe Avoid the Fen of Serech?
Oct 29, 2025
Week 097 - Tolkien Tuesday: I Should Make Him Apologize
Oct 28, 2025
Week 097 - Middle-earth Map Monday: I Like Big Butteries
Oct 27, 2025
Week 096 - Silmarillion Saturday: And Morgoth Came
Oct 25, 2025
Week 096 - First Age Friday: I Should Slay Him
Oct 24, 2025
Week 096 - Third Age Thursday: Men of Twilight and Men of Darkness
Oct 23, 2025
Week 096 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Fëanor Felt Aggrieved
Oct 22, 2025
Week 096 - Tolkien Tuesday: Simple-Minded Folk (Like Myself)
Oct 21, 2025
Week 096 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Falling Year by Year Into Decay
Oct 20, 2025
Week 095 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Aboard the Balrog Train
Sep 27, 2025
Week 095 - First Age Friday: Forgotten In My Own Land
Sep 26, 2025
Week 095 - Third Age Thursday: A Token of Hope
Sep 25, 2025
Week 095 - Word-nerd Wednesday: But Wait, There’s More
Sep 24, 2025
Week 095 - Tolkien Tuesday: Neither ‘Foolhardy’ Nor German
Sep 23, 2025
Week 095 - Middle-earth Map Monday: A Thousand Feet Above the Plain
Sep 22, 2025
Week 094 - Silmarillion Saturday: Their Roofless Grave
Sep 20, 2025
Week 094 - First Age Friday: Blame Me Not
Sep 19, 2025
Week 094 - Third Age Thursday: Treasure Without Price
Sep 18, 2025
Week 094 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Sounds Like…
Sep 17, 2025
Week 094 - Tolkien Tuesday: What Have Penguins Done to You, Professor?
Sep 16, 2025
Week 094 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Huge Tracts of Land
Sep 15, 2025
Week 093 - Silmarillion Saturday: Knowing That He Was Perilous
Sep 13, 2025
Week 093 - First Age Friday: Short is the Sight of Mortal Men
Sep 12, 2025
Week 093 - Third Age Thursday: Yet to Earn It
Sep 11, 2025
Week 093 - Word-nerd Wednesday: An Aberration
Sep 10, 2025
Week 093 - Tolkien Tuesday: Not Going Off Exactly as Hot Cakes
Sep 09, 2025
Week 093 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Ah, but Which Denethor?
Sep 08, 2025
Week 092 - Silmarillion Saturday: To Claim My Own
Sep 06, 2025
Week 092 - First Age Friday: Death Walks Between
Sep 05, 2025
Week 092 - Third Age Thursday: Touch It and Die
Sep 04, 2025
Week 092 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Well, I’m Back
Sep 03, 2025
Week 092 - Tolkien Tuesday: Fauna of Mordor
Sep 02, 2025
Week 092 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Stone for Food
Sep 01, 2025
Week 091 - Silmarillion Saturday: Knowing His Peril
Aug 30, 2025
Week 091 - First Age Friday: Only For a Moment
Aug 29, 2025
Week 091 - Third Age Thursday: Homebrew
Aug 28, 2025
Week 091 - Word-nerd Wednesday: He Said It Again!
Aug 27, 2025
Week 091 - Tolkien Tuesday: Means ‘No’
Aug 26, 2025
Week 091 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Less-important Fires
Aug 25, 2025
Week 090 - Silmarillion Saturday: Wholly Unwilling
Aug 23, 2025
Week 090 - First Age Friday: The Waves Hunted Us
Aug 22, 2025
Week 090 - Third Age Thursday: Quite Polite
Aug 21, 2025
Week 090 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Redundant Redundancy
Aug 20, 2025
Week 090 - Tolkien Tuesday: Above Our Measure
Aug 19, 2025
Week 090 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Paid Little Attention
Aug 18, 2025
Week 089 - Silmarillion Saturday: She Was Enmeshed
Aug 16, 2025
Week 089 - First Age Friday: The Cure of All Sea-Longing
Aug 15, 2025
Week 089 - Third Age Thursday: Beater and Biter
Aug 14, 2025
Week 089 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Voronwë and the Willow-vale
Aug 13, 2025
Week 089 - Tolkien Tuesday: Among Other Darknesses
Aug 12, 2025
Week 089 - Middle-earth Map Monday: From Erui to Mindolluin
Aug 11, 2025
Week 088 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Secret Fire Imperishable, Or Something
Jul 19, 2025
Week 088 - First Age Friday: The Hidden Remain Hid
Jul 18, 2025
Week 088 - Third Age Thursday: Tidings Beyond Hope
Jul 17, 2025
Week 088 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Unendurable Fate
Jul 16, 2025
Week 088 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: No Lord or Loyalty
Jul 15, 2025
Week 088 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Fear Flowed From It
Jul 14, 2025
Week 087 - Silmarillion Saturday: Not All in Vain
Jul 12, 2025
Week 087 - First Age Friday: A Long Surf Glimmering
Jul 11, 2025
Week 087 - Third Age Thursday: Praise Them With Great Praise!
Jul 10, 2025
Week 087 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Almost As Many Names As Aragorn
Jul 09, 2025
Week 087 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: And Now Thou Shalt Know Him
Jul 08, 2025
Week 087 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Before Ever a Ship Came
Jul 07, 2025
Week 086 - Silmarillion Saturday: Forms of Majesty and Dread
Jul 05, 2025
Week 086 - First Age Friday: Whatsoever Doom They Bear
Jul 04, 2025
Week 086 - Third Age Thursday: Nor Bid the Stars Farewell
Jul 03, 2025
Week 086 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Not That Kind of Deer, Dear
Jul 02, 2025
Week 086 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: A Shadow Fell Upon Her Mind
Jul 01, 2025
Week 086 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Frowning Precipices
Jun 30, 2025
Week 085 - Silmarillion Saturday: Let These Things Be!
Jun 28, 2025
Week 085 - First Age Friday: Deathless But Doomed
Jun 27, 2025
Week 085 - Third Age Thursday: But a Doggrel
Jun 26, 2025
Week 085 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Lookout Hill
Jun 25, 2025
Week 085 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Nor Her Own Name
Jun 24, 2025
Week 085 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Riven From the Bones of the Earth
Jun 23, 2025
Week 084 - Silmarillion Saturday: Strange and Free
Jun 21, 2025
Week 084 - First Age Friday: A Great Yearning
Jun 20, 2025
Week 084 - Third Age Thursday: To the Day’s Rising
Jun 19, 2025
Week 084 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Intelligent Man
Jun 18, 2025
Week 084 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: In Peace Unshadowed
Jun 17, 2025
Week 084 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Rush and Chatter
Jun 16, 2025
Week 083 - Silmarillion Saturday: Shall Prove But Mine Instrument
Jun 14, 2025
Week 083 - First Age Friday: Through Darkness
Jun 13, 2025
Week 083 - Third Age Thursday: Fealty Kept He
Jun 12, 2025
Week 083 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Get Used to Disappointment
Jun 11, 2025
Week 083 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: I Offer Thee Freedom
Jun 10, 2025
Week 083 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Tap by Tap
Jun 09, 2025
Week 082 - Silmarillion Saturday: Like Unto Countless Choirs
Jun 07, 2025
Week 082 - First Age Friday: An Outlaw in the Land of His Fathers
Jun 06, 2025
Week 082 - Third Age Thursday: Need Shall Drive Him
Jun 05, 2025
Week 082 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Noble Towers, Silver Birches and Golden Worms
Jun 04, 2025
Week 082 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Yet I Rue the Day
Jun 03, 2025
Week 082 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Far-off Days of the Glory of Gondor
Jun 02, 2025
Week 081 - Silmarillion Saturday: With His Servant?!
May 10, 2025
Week 081 - Fandom Friday: Don Marshall
May 09, 2025
Week 081 - Third Age Thursday: Huge, Old, and Tall
May 08, 2025
Week 081 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Orodreth Went to West Virginia?
May 07, 2025
Week 081 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Not In Your Name
May 06, 2025
Week 081 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Wide, Wind-Swept Walls
May 05, 2025
Week 080 - Silmarillion Saturday: Of Small Account
May 03, 2025
Week 080 - Fandom Friday: Bag End at End of Bag
May 02, 2025
Week 080 - Third Age Thursday: Rhymes of Lore
May 01, 2025
Week 080 - Word-nerd Wednesday: There’s a Golf Joke Somewhere
Apr 30, 2025
Week 080 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Fate Was That Day More Strong
Apr 29, 2025
Week 080 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Like a Sentinel
Apr 28, 2025
Week 079 - Silmarillion Saturday: A Second Darkness
Apr 26, 2025
Week 079 - Fandom Friday: Galadriel’s Gorgeous Gambeson
Apr 25, 2025
Week 079 - Third Age Thursday: Arise!
Apr 24, 2025
Week 079 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Beleriand Geography — Lightning Round
Apr 23, 2025
Week 079 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: With Little Hope
Apr 22, 2025
Week 079 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Great Brooding Presence
Apr 21, 2025
Week 078 - Silmarillion Saturday: How Great Was Their Peril
Apr 19, 2025
Week 078 - Fandom Friday: A Song of Greater Power
Apr 18, 2025
Week 078 - Third Age Thursday: Unmarred, Unstained
Apr 17, 2025
Week 078 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Or, “Deadly Forest of Deadly Death”
Apr 16, 2025
Week 078 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Such a Churl
Apr 15, 2025
Week 078 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Between Down and Fen
Apr 14, 2025
Week 077 - Silmarillion Saturday: There Mirth Also Dwelt
Apr 12, 2025
Week 077 - Fandom Friday: Kaiakayy
Apr 11, 2025
Week 077 - Third Age Thursday: Hwær Cwom Mearg?
Apr 10, 2025
Week 077 - Word-nerd Wednesday: It Would Explain Much
Apr 09, 2025
Week 077 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Guard Him and Guide Him
Apr 08, 2025
Week 077 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Swelled Like a Green Sea
Apr 07, 2025
Week 076 - Silmarillion Saturday: Stirred as by a Cold Wind
Apr 05, 2025
Week 076 - Fandom Friday: History, Real or Feigned
Apr 04, 2025
Week 076 - Third Age Thursday: Dark is the Path
Apr 03, 2025
Week 076 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Say That Again?
Apr 02, 2025
Week 076 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Marked With Sorrow
Apr 01, 2025
Week 076 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Rush and Thunder
Mar 31, 2025
Week 075 - Silmarillion Saturday: Not Wholly Destroyed
Mar 29, 2025
Week 075 - Fandom Friday: Celebreabird
Mar 28, 2025
Week 075 - Third Age Thursday: With Doom We Come
Mar 27, 2025
Week 075 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Vigorous Heart
Mar 26, 2025
Week 075 - Túrin Turambar Tuesday: Seventy Times He Uttered That Cry
Mar 25, 2025
Week 075 - Middle-earth Map Monday: No Foot of Man Or Beast
Mar 24, 2025
Week 074 - Silmarillion Saturday: Brooded in the Dark
Mar 01, 2025
Week 074 - First-Age Friday: Sudden Swift Surprise
Feb 28, 2025
Week 074 - Third Age Thursday: Lighthearted, Quick-worded, and Soon Over
Feb 27, 2025
Week 074 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Quenya for “Listen to Her”
Feb 26, 2025
Week 074 - Tolkien Tuesday: Her Last and Fattest Years
Feb 25, 2025
Week 074 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Silent Wardens
Feb 24, 2025
Week 073 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Yearning of Exile
Feb 22, 2025
Week 073 - First-Age Friday: Ecstasy Enchanted
Feb 21, 2025
Week 073 - Third Age Thursday: More Than My Desire
Feb 20, 2025
Week 073 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Place of Starlight
Feb 19, 2025
Week 073 - Tolkien Tuesday: Horrified the Shire-folk
Feb 18, 2025
Week 073 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Burned and Uprooted
Feb 17, 2025
Week 072 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Voices of Death
Feb 15, 2025
Week 072 - First-Age Friday: A Pretty Toy For Idle Hour
Feb 14, 2025
Week 072 - Third Age Thursday: The Lore of Living Creatures
Feb 13, 2025
Week 072 - Word-nerd Wednesday: An Actual Perfect 10
Feb 12, 2025
Week 072 - Tolkien Tuesday: Considerable Social Importance
Feb 11, 2025
Week 072 - Middle-earth Map Monday: And the Land Was Silent
Feb 10, 2025
Week 071 - Silmarillion Saturday: Is It Not Then Our Task
Feb 08, 2025
Week 071 - First-Age Friday: Thy Name, Thou Shrieking Waif, Thy Name!
Feb 07, 2025
Week 071 - Third Age Thursday: His Cloven Shield, His Broken Sword
Feb 06, 2025
Week 071 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Lady of the West and Mother Earth
Feb 05, 2025
Week 071 - Tolkien Tuesday: Juicy Details
Feb 04, 2025
Week 071 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Long Years of Peace and Obscurity
Feb 03, 2025
Week 070 - Silmarillion Saturday: Back Into Evil
Feb 01, 2025
Week 070 - First-Age Friday: Immortal Flowers
Jan 31, 2025
Week 070 - Third Age Thursday: More Quenya!
Jan 30, 2025
Week 070 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Tulk Smash
Jan 29, 2025
Week 070 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sufferers Please Note
Jan 28, 2025
Week 070 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Greatly At Variance
Jan 27, 2025
Week 069 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Roads Are Now Bent
Jan 25, 2025
Week 069 - First-Age Friday: Fight With Thine Own Hand and Sword
Jan 24, 2025
Week 069 - Third Age Thursday: Sad and Sweet Was the Sound
Jan 23, 2025
Week 069 - Word-nerd Wednesday: My Brother’s Office is So Much Nicer
Jan 22, 2025
Week 069 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Laughter of Ilúvatar
Jan 21, 2025
Week 069 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Too Numerous and Valiant
Jan 20, 2025
Week 068 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Sky Reeled, and the Hills Slid
Jan 18, 2025
Week 068 - First-Age Friday: In Love Must In Thy Dying Share
Jan 17, 2025
Week 068 - Third Age Thursday: An Old Man in a Battered Hat
Jan 16, 2025
Week 068 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The World-Artificer and The Forester
Jan 15, 2025
Week 068 - Tolkien Tuesday: Of Equal Lineage
Jan 14, 2025
Week 068 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Given Without Love
Jan 13, 2025
Week 067 - Silmarillion Saturday: Repent For a Season
Jan 11, 2025
Week 067 - First-Age Friday: Yet Were Its Making Good
Jan 10, 2025
Week 067 - Third Age Thursday: As Light As Leaf of Linden-Tree
Jan 09, 2025
Week 067 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Ainur We Have Heard on High
Jan 08, 2025
Week 067 - Tolkien Tuesday: At the End of the Sixth Age
Jan 07, 2025
Week 067 - Middle-earth Map Monday: And I Mean ALL the Languages
Jan 06, 2025
Week 066 - I Smell Goblin Strong
Dec 21, 2024
Week 066 - Properly Drawn Bears
Dec 20, 2024
Week 066 - Paksu and Valkotukka
Dec 19, 2024
Week 066 - Polar Bears Get Whooping Cough?
Dec 18, 2024
Week 066 - My Real Name is Karhu
Dec 17, 2024
Week 066 - Don’t Be a Silly Bear
Dec 16, 2024
Week 065 - Silmarillion Saturday: That Land is Defiled
Nov 30, 2024
Week 065 - First-Age Friday: She’s Also a Triage Nurse
Nov 29, 2024
Week 065 - Third Age Thursday: The World Was Young
Nov 28, 2024
Week 065 - Word-nerd Wednesday: But What About Middle-earth?
Nov 27, 2024
Week 065 - Tolkien Tuesday: Wizards, the Bayeux Tapestry, and Pterodactyls?
Nov 26, 2024
Week 065 - Middle-earth Map Monday: No One Hinders Oromë
Nov 25, 2024
Week 064 - Silmarillion Saturday: Torment and Great Wickedness
Nov 23, 2024
Week 064 - First-Age Friday: Frail of Purpose, Light of Love?
Nov 22, 2024
Week 064 - Third Age Thursday: Full of Light and Splendour
Nov 21, 2024
Week 064 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Chief Heavenly Lights
Nov 20, 2024
Week 064 - Tolkien Tuesday: All the Answers
Nov 19, 2024
Week 064 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Skill and Fame of Fëanor
Nov 18, 2024
Week 063 - Silmarillion Saturday: He Brooded Darkly
Nov 16, 2024
Week 063 - First-Age Friday: Oaths are For Breaking of the Heart
Nov 15, 2024
Week 063 - Third Age Thursday: And Voices at the Door
Nov 14, 2024
Week 063 - Word-nerd Wednesday: No More Elvish, and I Mean It
Nov 13, 2024
Week 063 - Tolkien Tuesday: Ridiculous Indeed
Nov 12, 2024
Week 063 - Middle-earth Map Monday: In Happier Days
Nov 11, 2024
Week 062 - Silmarillion Saturday: … And the Havens of Andúnië Were Forlorn
Nov 09, 2024
Week 062 - First-Age Friday: Flower of Elfland Ever Fair!
Nov 08, 2024
Week 062 - Third Age Thursday: Boromir Belays Begging Boon
Nov 07, 2024
Week 062 - Word-nerd Wednesday: How Many Names Can a Valley Have?
Nov 06, 2024
Week 062 - Tolkien Tuesday: Far More Unsatisfactory
Nov 05, 2024
Week 062 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Good Counsel and Wise Lore
Nov 04, 2024
Week 061 - Silmarillion Saturday: The Zenith of Its Bliss
Nov 02, 2024
Week 061 - First-Age Friday: Hungry Like the Wolf
Nov 01, 2024
Week 061 - Third Age Thursday: Beyond the Wide and Sundering Sea
Oct 31, 2024
Week 061 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Well, Isn’t That Special
Oct 30, 2024
Week 061 - Tolkien Tuesday: Wholly Unacceptable Tampering
Oct 29, 2024
Week 061 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Smells Like Elves
Oct 28, 2024
Week 060 - Silmarillion Saturday: As Moths In a Light Too Strong
Oct 26, 2024
Week 060 - First-Age Friday: Friendship That to Death Should Last
Oct 25, 2024
Week 060 - Third Age Thursday: Tarried There From Errantry
Oct 24, 2024
Week 060 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Beyond the West
Oct 23, 2024
Week 060 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Last Thing that Aragorn Would Have Done
Oct 22, 2024
Week 060 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Tall and Fair
Oct 21, 2024
Week 059 - Silmarillion Saturday: All Is Now Forgot
Oct 19, 2024
Week 059 - First-Age Friday: The Goodest of Good Boys
Oct 18, 2024
Week 059 - Third Age Thursday: A Merry Passenger, a Messenger, a Mariner
Oct 17, 2024
Week 059 - Word-nerd Wednesday: How About Next-to-Last Instead?
Oct 16, 2024
Week 059 - Tolkien Tuesday: But Can’t They Be Very Different?
Oct 15, 2024
Week 059 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Four Oh Something
Oct 14, 2024
Week 058 - Silmarillion Saturday: Silver Flame in the Paths of the Sun
Oct 12, 2024
Week 058 - First Age Friday: A Song of Staying
Oct 11, 2024
Week 058 - Third Age Thursday: Just a Bit of Nonsense
Oct 10, 2024
Week 058 - Word-nerd Wednesday: She That Has Fallen
Oct 09, 2024
Week 058 - Tolkien Tuesday: Hasty, Insensitive, and Impertinent
Oct 08, 2024
Week 058 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Nesting Dolls of the North
Oct 07, 2024
Week 057 - Second Age Saturday: Whom I Prefer Above All Others
Sep 21, 2024
Week 057 - Fandom Friday: Never Laugh At Live Dragons; Laugh With Green Dragon
Sep 20, 2024
Week 057 - Third Age Thursday: The Long & Short Of It
Sep 19, 2024
Week 057 - Word-nerd Wednesday: A Plethora of Place-names Perchance?
Sep 18, 2024
Week 057 - Tolkien Tuesday: Equal Obstinacy
Sep 17, 2024
Week 057 - Middle-earth Map Monday: I Can Haz Palantir?
Sep 16, 2024
Week 056 - Second Age Saturday: The Root Of All Their Troubles
Sep 14, 2024
Week 056 - Fandom Friday: Airplane Facts are Not Like Tolkien Facts… or are they, Max?
Sep 13, 2024
Week 056 - Third Age Thursday: In the Forest Singing Sorrowless
Sep 12, 2024
Week 056 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Er is the Loneliest Number… of Hands
Sep 11, 2024
Week 056 - Tolkien Tuesday: Blundering, Brusque, or Downright Rude
Sep 10, 2024
Week 056 - Middle-earth Map Monday: Filled With Evil Folk
Sep 09, 2024
Week 055 - Second Age Saturday: Enjoy It Before They Ruin It
Sep 07, 2024
Week 055 - Fandom Friday: The Tea Is Always Right
Sep 06, 2024
Week 055 - Third Age Thursday: Mirrored in His Silver Shield
Sep 05, 2024
Week 055 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Revered King
Sep 04, 2024
Week 055 - Tolkien Tuesday: Holy Terror of Coteries
Sep 03, 2024
Week 055 - Middle-earth Map Monday: His Chief City
Sep 02, 2024
Week 054 - Second Age Saturday: Too Late, or Too Early
Aug 31, 2024
Week 054 - Fandom Friday: Always Optimistic
Aug 30, 2024
Week 054 - Third Age Thursday: Totally Irrational Non-Sequiturs
Aug 29, 2024
Week 054 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Unto No Maner Wight
Aug 28, 2024
Week 054 - Tolkien Tuesday: The Cause Rather Than the Result
Aug 27, 2024
Week 054 - Middle-earth Map Monday: While Their Realm Lasted
Aug 26, 2024
Week 053 - Second Age Saturday: Madman and Churl
Aug 24, 2024
Week 053 - Fandom Friday: The Middle Page
Aug 24, 2024
Week 053 - Third Age Thursday: A Mug of Beer Inside This Took
Aug 24, 2024
Week 053 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Hey Now, You’re an All Star
Aug 24, 2024
Week 053 - Tolkien Tuesday: I’m Not Accurate
Aug 24, 2024
Week 053 - Middle-earth Map Monday: An Old Name… in an Older Language
Aug 24, 2024
Week 052 - Second Age Saturday: Myself as a Tame Hound
Aug 24, 2024
Week 052 - Fandom Friday: The Dwarf of the Year Returns
Aug 24, 2024
Week 052 - Third Age Thursday: Tree-Tangled Middle-Lands
Aug 24, 2024
Week 052 - Tolkien Tuesday: Scant Resemblance
Aug 24, 2024
Week 052 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Snow White is Very Inadequate
Aug 24, 2024
Week 052 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Forefathers of the Edain
Aug 12, 2024
Week 051 - Second Age Saturday: Of What Worth Is Choice?
Aug 10, 2024
Week 051 - Fandom Friday: It’s Complicated
Aug 09, 2024
Week 051 - Third Age Thursday: Round the Next Corner
Aug 08, 2024
Week 051 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Shout, Shout, Let It All Out
Aug 07, 2024
Week 051 - Tolkien Tuesday: Your Laugh In My Heart Echoes
Aug 06, 2024
Week 051 - Middle-earth Map Monday: The Memory of Many Injuries
Aug 05, 2024
Week 050 - Second Age Saturday: Manwë Keep You Under the One
Aug 03, 2024
Week 050 - Fandom Friday: Because It Was About Time
Aug 02, 2024
Week 050 - Third Age Thursday: My Evening-Rest
Aug 01, 2024
Week 050 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Scion of Kings
Jul 31, 2024
Week 050 - Tolkien Tuesday: We All Agree So
Jul 30, 2024
Week 050 - Map Monday: The Land Was Rich and Kindly
Jul 29, 2024
Week 049 - Second Age Saturday: Steel Hard to Break
Jul 13, 2024
Week 049 - First Age Friday: Master of Wolves
Jul 12, 2024
Week 049 - Third Age Thursday: Even as Oromë the Great
Jul 11, 2024
Week 049 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Golden-Haired Champion
Jul 10, 2024
Week 049 - Tolkien Tuesday: Our Revered Hobbit-Ancestors
Jul 09, 2024
Week 049 - Mailbag Monday: With Vigour, Please
Jul 09, 2024
Week 048 - Second Age Saturday: I Am Mistaken, It Seems
Jul 06, 2024
Week 048 - First Age Friday: Yours Ye May Break
Jul 05, 2024
Week 048 - Third Age Thursday: Maybe We Shall Cleave a Road
Jul 04, 2024
Week 048 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Here We Come A-Wassailing
Jul 03, 2024
Week 048 - Tolkien Tuesday: Stupidities and Vulgarities
Jul 02, 2024
Week 048 - Mailbag Monday: Until the Rising of the Star
Jul 01, 2024
Week 047 - Second Age Saturday: Breakers and Eaters
Jun 29, 2024
Week 047 - First Age Friday: Terrible and Blasphemous
Jun 28, 2024
Week 047 - Third Age Thursday: It Is Not So Dark Here
Jun 27, 2024
Week 047 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Friend, Enchantress, or Flower-daughter?
Jun 26, 2024
Week 047 - Tolkien Tuesday: Philological Harpies
Jun 25, 2024
Week 047 - Mailbag Monday: Very Unprolific
Jun 24, 2024
Week 046 - Second Age Saturday: No Place For Such Joy
Jun 22, 2024
Week 046 - First Age Friday: And Away, Away She Danced
Jun 21, 2024
Week 046 - Third Age Thursday: Which Story, I Wonder
Jun 20, 2024
Week 046 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Far Older and More Reverend
Jun 19, 2024
Week 046 - Tolkien Tuesday: Bless the Little People!
Jun 18, 2024
Week 046 - Mailbag Monday: Excuse Me, Sur
Jun 17, 2024
Week 045 - Second Age Saturday: A Man Long-sighted
Jun 15, 2024
Week 045 - First Age Friday: She Wanted a Treehouse…
Jun 14, 2024
Week 045 - Third Age Thursday: Fiddlesticks!
Jun 13, 2024
Week 045 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Númenórean Aramotherapy
Jun 12, 2024
Week 045 - Tolkien Tuesday: At Whatever Cost of Sleep
Jun 11, 2024
Week 045 - Mailbag Monday: And Therefore Stupid
Jun 10, 2024
Week 044 - Second Age Saturday: Heart’s Ease
Jun 08, 2024
Week 044 - First Age Friday: A Flower That Grows Beneath the Sky
Jun 07, 2024
Week 044 - Third Age Thursday: Hearses at Daybreak
Jun 06, 2024
Week 044 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Maybe Thou Shalt Find These Words
Jun 05, 2024
Week 044 - Tolkien Tuesday: Make #NotATrilogy Trend
Jun 04, 2024
Week 044 - Mailbag Monday: The Valar Already Know This Question
Jun 03, 2024
Week 043 - Second Age Saturday: And Hid Her Tears
Jun 01, 2024
Week 043 - First Age Friday: Love It Is Hath Here Me Bound
May 31, 2024
Week 043 - Third Age Thursday: Well, That’s That
May 30, 2024
Week 043 - Word-nerd Wednesday: Gandalf, Formula 1, and Firefly
May 29, 2024
Week 043 - Tolkien Tuesday: There Will Be Not a Few
May 28, 2024
Week 043 - Mailbag Monday: Yes, With an If… No, With a But
May 27, 2024
Week 042 - Second Age Saturday: At War Within Himself
May 25, 2024
Week 042 - First Age Friday: Of Living Love and Mortal Pain
May 24, 2024
Week 042 - Third Age Thursday: I Had to Badger You
May 23, 2024
Week 042 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Greatest Delight of Númenor
May 22, 2024
Week 042 - Tolkien Tuesday: Sympathetic Review
May 21, 2024
Week 042 - Mailbag Monday: Gandalf Was a Rollin’ Stone
May 20, 2024
Week 041 - Second Age Saturday: Now, And In All Nows
May 04, 2024
Week 041 - First Age Friday: Soft a Kiss She Placed Upon His Muted Lips
May 03, 2024
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