The Tolkien Professor

We wrap up the riddle game with the key question: Will there be a Bag End auction?

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Corey talks to Mythgard students who joined him at Mythcon 45 in August of 2014, as well as an impressive list of drop-by guests

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Corey and Trish (standing in for Laura) share great listener observations about the Battle of Dol Guldur (RITD Episodes 3.09 and 3.10)

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Our hosts were very talkative in this episode, starting with a rant about the new name for Hobbit Movie 3, then moving on to considering how the Siege of Erebor might look from the Laketown side of the table. And Corey got to use "abscond" in a sentence, which pleased him no end.

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Corey Olsen and Maggie Parke turn at last to a detailed discussion of The War of the Rohirrim!Other Minds and Hands: An Open and Friendly Discussion of Tolkien Adaptation, Episode 91,
recorded on December 30, 2024.Signum Studios just launched another Kickstarter for a new project:
Rings & Realms:The Lord of the Rings-The War of the Rohirrim
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/signumu/ringsandrealms-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-war-of-the-rohirrim?ref=user_menuThank you for your support for our Annual Fundraising Campaign. If you missed the campaign event broadcasts, you can watch the recordings here.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLasMbZ4s5vIW4X_6biE7MLLGssLtApH8PJoin us on Mondays at 4:30 PM ET,
on this SignumU Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/SignumUniversity
and SignumU Twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/signumu
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For more information https://mythgard.org/miscellany/
You can watch or listen to the recordings here.
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Dr. Corey Olsen the Tolkien Professor
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Dr. Maggie Parke
https://signumuniversity.org/directory/maggie-parke/Join us on the Signum University Discord server: https://discord.gg/szXMFAvFollow our Twitter accounts for updates:
Corey Olsen, Tolkien Professor https://twitter.com/tolkienprof
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Mythgard Institute https://twitter.com/mythgardianRings and Realms: https://www.youtube.com/c/RingsandRealms
Corey and Maggie's weekly analysis of Prime Video's epic adaptation of Tolkien’s mythos. Presented by Signum University and Studio Lab.
audio-only version recordings (podcast) https://ringsandrealms.fireside.fm/Want to dive deeper into Tolkien's world?
Corey is offering several free and open weekly and biweekly programs on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and other topics at Mythgard Institute. https://mythgard.org/
You can check the live schedule here. https://www.twitch.tv/signumu/schedule
More about the individual programs
Exploring the Lord of the Rings: a sentence-by-sentence journey through the text of Tolkien's epic fairy story (and Stephen Colbert's favorite https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/03/magazine/stephen-colbert-politics-religion.html ) https://mythgard.org/lotro/exlotr/
Mythgard Academy: in-depth seminars on fantasy, science fiction, and other speculative works https://mythgard.org/academy/
The Silmarillion Film Project/SilmFilm: a completely hypothetical discussion about what J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion would look like as a TV series https://mythgard.org/silmfilm/
Those recordings can be found on this Signum University Youtube channel as well as on our podcasts.
https://mythgard.org/listen/
Other Minds and Hands and SilmFilm recordings are on the Tolkien Professor podcast.For those who feel reading the Silmarillion for the first time is a bit daunting.
https://tolkienprof...