The Tolkien Lore Podcast

275 Episodes

1. How Peter Jackson Should Have Framed the Hobbit Trilogy

   Published: 7/11/2022
2. Dispelling Myths About the Nazgul and the Nine Rings

   Published: 7/4/2022
3. Lord of the Rings Theory: What If Isildur Had Survived and Kept the Ring?

   Published: 6/27/2022
4. From Semi-Villain to Tragic Hero: The Soft Retcon of Isildur

   Published: 6/26/2022
5. How Did Sauron Get His Ring from Numenor Back to Mordor but Not Off His Dead Hand?

   Published: 6/13/2022
6. Tolkien, Allegory, and Applicability: Freedom of the Reader Is Not License to Reinterpret

   Published: 6/6/2022
7. Upcoming Changes to Patreon and the Future of the Channel

   Published: 6/1/2022
8. Who in Middle-Earth Could Effectively Wield the One Ring?

   Published: 5/30/2022
9. How Sauron and "Leaf by Niggle" Teach Us More About Melkor and Manwe

   Published: 5/23/2022
10. Why Couldn’t the One Ring Be Taken to Valinor?

    Published: 5/16/2022
11. Why Did Gandalf Fear Sauron If They’re Both Maiar?

    Published: 5/9/2022
12. Which of Tolkien's Stories Are Part of the the Middle-Earth “Canon?”

    Published: 5/2/2022
13. Anglachel/Gurthang and Narsil/Anduril: Twin Sword Brothers from Different Mothers

    Published: 4/25/2022
14. Book Review | The Science of Middle-Earth: A New Understanding of Tolkien and His World

    Published: 4/18/2022
15. Why Peter Jackson Was Right to Cut Tom Bombadil from The Lord of the Rings

    Published: 4/11/2022
16. Who Really Killed Sauron in the War of the Last Alliance? And Why Does It Matter?

    Published: 4/4/2022
17. Tolkien’s “Fundamentally Catholic” Mythology: The Christian Foundations of Middle-Earth

    Published: 3/28/2022
18. Merry & Pippin: Fast Friends in a Foreign War | Tolkien Reading Day 2022

    Published: 3/25/2022
19. The Characters of LOTR: The Relatable, the Admirable, and the "Warning to Others"

    Published: 3/21/2022
20. Is the Tolkien Estate About to Start Aggressively Enforcing Copyright and Trademark?

    Published: 3/14/2022