323 Episodes

  1. Rockadoodle and Tolkien on the Ambiguity and Power of Myth

    Published: 4/20/2025

  2. Why Was It Harder for Sauron to Regain a Body Every Time He Was Destroyed?

    Published: 4/14/2025

  3. Tolkien Geek Reacts to “Warfare Experts Rate 13 Lord of the Rings Battles for Realism”

    Published: 4/7/2025

  4. Why the Members of the Fellowship of the Ring Make NO Sense Strategically

    Published: 3/31/2025

  5. How the “Company” of the Ring Became the “Fellowship” | Tolkien Reading Day 2025

    Published: 3/25/2025

  6. How J.R.R. Tolkien Almost Ruined His Middle-Earth Mythology

    Published: 3/17/2025

  7. How Providence Made the Most of Boromir Taking Faramir’s Place

    Published: 3/10/2025

  8. Are Peter Jackson’s Deviations from Tolkien Really Justified by Adaptation?

    Published: 3/3/2025

  9. Details Peter Jackson Got Right in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of Five Armies

    Published: 2/24/2025

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

    Published: 2/17/2025

  11. Was Gandalf a Machiavellian Schemer Who Used Others as Pawns?

    Published: 2/10/2025

  12. How the Animated Tolkien Films Capture What Jackson Misses

    Published: 2/3/2025

  13. How Peter Jackson's LOTR Trilogy Won the Loyalty of Die Hard Book Fans

    Published: 1/27/2025

  14. Tolkien’s Heroes Are NOT Perfect—Let’s Look at Their Character Flaws

    Published: 1/20/2025

  15. Details Peter Jackson Got Right in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    Published: 1/13/2025

  16. Tom Bombadil as Middle-Earth's Melchizedek?

    Published: 1/6/2025

  17. How Tolkien Exalts the Humble and Humbles the Proud in Middle-Earth

    Published: 12/30/2024

  18. Details in Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King” that Only Book Superfans Notice, Part 2

    Published: 12/23/2024

  19. The Tolkien Geek Reviews “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”

    Published: 12/14/2024

  20. Details in Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King” that Only Book Superfans Notice, Part 1

    Published: 12/9/2024

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Discussing anything and everything related to J.R.R. Tolkien, from Middle-earth to real life.