70. An Interview with Viggo Mortensen
Here’s the next episode in our series of interviews from the December 2, 2003 roundtable discussions (our Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen episode)! You can tell that Viggo is thoughtful and soft-spoke...
26 Sep 202329min
69. Music is Escape : An Interview with Jeff Johnson – Musician, Composer, Producer
If you haven’t listened to Jeff Johnson’s music yet, you’re missing out. I’ve been a fan of his music for over 20 years, having been first inroduced with his Songs of Albion trilogy — music based on r...
19 Sep 20231h 2min
68. An Interview with Liv Tyler and Orlando Bloom
Here’s our 3rd recording from the December 2, 2003 roundtable interviews (our Peter Jackson episode is at https://youtu.be/JqhF91GJbGg)! In this episode, Liv Tyler and Orlando Bloom joined us to talk ...
12 Sep 202326min
67. An Interview with Ian McKellen : He Read Tolkien EVERY NIGHT Before Filming
Here’s another recording from the December 2, 2003 roundtable interviews I was invited to join with a few other journalists to speak to the actors and crew of The Lord of the Rings (our Peter Jackson ...
5 Sep 202328min
66. Happily Ever After isn’t Enough – On Fairy Stories, Part 6
We’re wrapping up Tolkien’s seminal essay this week looking at Consolation–and with that–Tolkien’s well-known term, Eucatastrophe. With so much depth, this essay isn’t easy to consume, and we really h...
29 Aug 202355min
65. Escape Isn’t Possible with “Modern” Storytelling – On Fairy Stories, Part 5
What are we supposed to recover from? And why do fairy stories provide it? And why do we need to escape? And how do fairy stories break us out? As we get closer to finishing out “On Fairy Stories,” ...
22 Aug 202359min
64. Movies are NOT Sub-Creation – On Fairy Stories, Part 4
When Tolkien talks about Fantasy, he doesn’t simply mean fiction stories set in sword-and-sorcery worlds. Fantasy is the highest form of sub-creation, the “most nearly pure form”–and the most potent....
15 Aug 20231h 8min
63. Kids Ruin Everything – On Fairy Stories, Part 3
This week we discussed “Children” from the “On Fairy Stories” by Tolkien. He pushes back against the coupling of fairy-stories and children, making the point that, “If fairy-story as a kind is worth ...
8 Aug 202352min
