Episode 249: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.05: Smaug's Attack
How epic will the attack of the dragon on Laketown be? Will there be any red shirts among the cast? And what about that oily Master? Inquiring minds examine these and other questions about The Hobbit:...
5 Apr 20141h 56min
Episode 248: Riddles in the Dark Supererogatory, Episode 1
The first episode of the Riddles in the Dark Supererogatory. The Tolkien Professor addresses your comments and questions on RITD 3.01
29 Mar 201444min
Episode 247: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.04: Meanwhile, Back in Laketown
What's going on in Laketown while the Dwarves are zigging and zagging around Erebor with a dragon in close pursuit? We theorize about this and other matters, and this time there are sound effects!
22 Mar 20141h 57min
Episode 246: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.03: There and Back Again - The Beginning
Saddle up the battle pigs! The RITD team go from serious to silly and back again as they consider the many ways that Peter Jackson could choose to begin the third Hobbit movie.
9 Mar 20141h 33min
Episode 245: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.02: Those Elves
Talking Elves in the second episode of the third year of Riddles in the Dark.
22 Feb 20141h 47min
Episode 244: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 2, Episode 3.01: Action and Violence
The first riddle episode of the last year of Riddles in the Dark considers how action and violence impact the first two Hobbit movies and how these aspects will show up in The Hobbit: There and Back A...
16 Feb 20141h 48min
Episode 243: Silmarillion Seminar 35: Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, Part 2
The thirty-fifth session of the Silmarillion Seminar, covering Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, Part 2
8 Feb 20142h 21min
Episode 242: Riddles in the Dark Year 3, Phase 1, Episode b
The second installment of Phase 1 of Year 3 of Riddles in the Dark team sees us revisiting The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug one last time. Three key themes are considered in the context of how they wil...
31 Jan 20141h 55min
