The Tolkien Experience Podcast - 04 - James Tauber

04 - James Tauber

02/14/20 • 28 min

Our next guest on the Tolkien Experience Podcast wears many, dare we say geeky, hats. He is the founder and CEO of Eldarion, he helps develop tools for the digital humanities, he loves ancient languages, and he is the creator of DigitalTolkien.com: James Tauber!

All of James's projects are impressive, but perhaps the one that most of our listeners will be drawn to is his work at DigitalTolkien.com. There James has been working on analyzing textual variants in The Silmarillion. He has also been working to apply the tools used in other areas of digital humanities to Tolkien's texts. You can visit his website, or listen to the episode, for more information about these projects. We are delighted that he could join us!

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03 - Andrew Higgins

Our next guest on the Tolkien Experience Podcast is a Tolkien scholar and linguist who has very quickly become influential in the field of Tolkien Studies: Dr. Andrew Higgins!

Dr. Higgins completed his PhD on the evolution of J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology in 2015. His doctoral research was a holistic examination of Tolkien's earliest works in order to gain a new critical framework to examine Tolkien's 'early imaginative language invention'. He has also co-edited a critical edition of Tolkien's A Secret Vice with Dimitra Fimi. This volume won the 2017 Tolkien Society Award for Best Book! We are delighted that he was able to be our guest for the podcast, and we hope you enjoy the interview!

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05 - Shaun Gunner

Our next guest on the Tolkien Experience Podcast has been the chair of the Tolkien Society since 2013.

According to the society's website, Shaun "regularly speaks about adaptations of Tolkien's works whilst passionately believing the Society needs to reach out to new audiences." We are so happy he could make time to talk with us for this episode!