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Showing posts with label Exploring the Lord of the Rings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exploring the Lord of the Rings. Show all posts
04 January 2024

"Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many" -- Exploring the Lord of the Rings, Session 287

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20 May 2023

Detecting the Hand of the 'Translator' in The Lord of the Rings

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Yesterday in my effort to catch up to Corey Olsen in Exploring the Lord of the Rings, I was listening to him talk about detecting the hand ...
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20 November 2022

Hobbits and the Shire: The strength of the hills is theirs also.

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Yesterday, a friend sent me something he was working on about The Lord of the Rings , and what he had to say about Hobbits and the Shire in ...
17 November 2022

Not to find them, not to bind them -- Elrond and the Ring verse

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'Yet no oath or bond is laid on you to go farther than you will.' ( FR  2.iii.280) As I was listening to Corey Olsen on episode 226 ...
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12 November 2022

A Random Thought about Bill the Pony

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I was listening to episode 221 of Corey Olsen's Exploring The Lord of the Rings podcast today (I am about 20 episodes behind -- hey, w...
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02 July 2021

Eleventy-one: Re-reading The Lord of the Rings 50 years on -- part one

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Right about now in 1971 I am beginning to read The Lord of the Rings  for the very first time. I had not read  The Hobbit  or even heard of ...
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25 February 2021

A Brief Note on "Exploring 'The Lord of the Rings'" episode 174

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In discussing Elrond's commentary on the stories of Frodo and Gandalf in The Council of Elrond , Corey Olsen had occasion to wonder how...
28 September 2020

Questions on The Ring, the Ring-verse, and Elision at FR 2.ii.254

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 1) If the Ring is sentient, as some suppose it to be, why doesn't it react at all when Gandalf recites the Ring incantation in the Blac...
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