Turin’s Weakness Is His Lack of Tolkien’s Greatest Weapon: Friendship

Someone alerted me to the existence of yet another fan film called “One of the Seven,” which naturally enough tells a story about one of the seven rings given to the Dwarves. But is that really what ...

23 Jan 202320min

A viewer asked about how Tolkien came up with Ents, and it’s actually a great example of one of his most-used creative tools. Other Links: Utreon: https://utreon.com/c/TolkienLorePodcast/ Rumble at ht...

19 Jan 20239min

A viewer commented on the channel and asked a rather interesting question about how we can reconcile Eru Iluvatar’s essential goodness with the fact that he sank the entire island of Numenor and kille...

16 Jan 202336min

Tolkien rather famously based Luthien off of his wife, but there’s a subtle way in which he also inserted himself and Christopher Tolkien into The Lord of the Rings as the collaborative authors, Bilbo...

12 Jan 20238min

Suggested by a Discord member (join my Discord using the link below!), I discuss whether Gurthang speaking to Turin is actually a case of a magic, talking sword, or merely the hallucinations of a man ...

9 Jan 202342min

When first encountering the Ring Poem, which lists groups of 9, 7, 3, and 1 rings, we might be tempted to wonder why there isn’t a group of 5, and what race they might have been made for, but this is ...

5 Jan 20237min

In this video I review two fan films that both primarily relate to the story of Turin Turambar, but which take very different approaches than you might expect. To watch Nienor Niniel, go here: https:/...

2 Jan 202325min

At first blush, it might not seem that there would be much in common between a drama set almost entirely within a jury room and an epic fantasy romance, but it turns out that Henry Fonda’s character f...

19 Dec 202219min