The Tolkien Lore Podcast

294 Episodes

1. Did Gandalf Make a Huge Blunder Allowing Frodo to Wait to Leave the Shire?

   Published: 2/17/2025
2. Was Gandalf a Machiavellian Schemer Who Used Others as Pawns?

   Published: 2/10/2025
3. How the Animated Tolkien Films Capture What Jackson Misses

   Published: 2/3/2025
4. How Peter Jackson's LOTR Trilogy Won the Loyalty of Die Hard Book Fans

   Published: 1/27/2025
5. Tolkien’s Heroes Are NOT Perfect—Let’s Look at Their Character Flaws

   Published: 1/20/2025
6. Details Peter Jackson Got Right in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

   Published: 1/13/2025
7. Tom Bombadil as Middle-Earth's Melchizedek?

   Published: 1/6/2025
8. How Tolkien Exalts the Humble and Humbles the Proud in Middle-Earth

   Published: 12/30/2024
9. Details in Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King” that Only Book Superfans Notice, Part 2

   Published: 12/23/2024
10. The Tolkien Geek Reviews “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”

    Published: 12/14/2024
11. Details in Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King” that Only Book Superfans Notice, Part 1

    Published: 12/9/2024
12. Details Peter Jackson Got Right in “Return of the King,” Part 2

    Published: 12/2/2024
13. Details Peter Jackson Got Right in "Return of the King," Part 1

    Published: 11/25/2024
14. An Extremely Nitpicky Review of Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King,” Part 2

    Published: 11/18/2024
15. An Extremely Nitpicky Review of Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King,” Part 1

    Published: 11/11/2024
16. The Real Reason You Don’t Like “Rings of Power” (It’s Not “the Canon”)

    Published: 11/4/2024
17. Corey Olsen Was Actually Right That There Is No “Canon” of Tolkien’s Work

    Published: 10/28/2024
18. Why Didn’t Gandalf and Aragorn Tell Frodo Anything About Bilbo?

    Published: 10/21/2024
19. The Tolkien Geek Reviews “The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien” (ed. Scull & Hammond, 2024)

    Published: 10/14/2024
20. How Tolkien Recycled Frodo's Story Arc for Theoden

    Published: 10/7/2024