The Wisdom of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth (w/ David Rowe)
David Rowe, author of The Proverbs of Middle-Earth, joins me to talk about how Tolkien teaches us lessons in wisdom through his fiction. Follow David Rowe on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mrdavidrowe...
15 Aug 202249min
The Worst Tolkien Adaptation That Never Got Made: John Boorman’s Lord of the Rings Script, Pt. 1
One of the members of my new Discord server (see invite link below) shared with me what may be the worst denigration of Tolkien’s magnum opus ever to nearly reach a wide audience. John Boorman (famou...
8 Aug 202234min
Tolkien and the Critics Pt 3: Sexism and Racism (w/ GirlNextGondor)
In part three of my series(previous videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLce_96994and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2kNO7Uy-QU) with GirlNextGondor (https://www.youtube.com/c/GirlNe...
1 Aug 20221h 13min
Tolkien Geek Reacts to Rings of Power Comic-Con Trailer
Amazon finally released a full trailer for their Rings of Power show at Comic-Con, but what does it tell us about the show? What can we expect? Does it look like it will stick to the lore? There ar...
25 Jul 202222min
Tolkien, Peter Jackson, and the Moral Landscape of The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien’s heroes engage in discussions involving moral quandaries with some frequency, showing that they are careful thinkers. Peter Jackson’s versions of the same characters...not so much, and the p...
18 Jul 202227min
How Peter Jackson Should Have Framed the Hobbit Trilogy
One of my biggest concerns prior to The Hobbit being released as a movie trilogy was how to go from the epic, adult level of The Lord of the Rings to the child-oriented whimsy of The Hobbit, and while...
11 Jul 202222min
Dispelling Myths About the Nazgul and the Nine Rings
My video on why Sauron couldn’t recover his Ring after being defeated in the War of the Last Alliance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKzuKSus8FI) generated several comments about the Nazgul and the ...
4 Jul 202216min
Lord of the Rings Theory: What If Isildur Had Survived and Kept the Ring?
Following up my video on the soft retcon of Isildur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYvQdTzfk44), I now address the question of what would have happened to Isildur and the Ring had he survived the Di...
27 Jun 202227min
