Exploring Tolkien – A Lord of the Rings Podcast
Before the Rings of Power, there were the Silmarils. Before Sauron, there was his master Morgoth. Before Aragorn and Arwen, there was Beren and Lúthien. Join Jonathan Watson, Michael Grumbine, and Dan Coats as they explore all the ages of Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
Jonathan, Michael, and Dan first met while co-hosting The Babylon Bee’s Lord of the Rings podcast that read through Tolkien’s masterpiece from 2020 to 2022.
Though they all come from different experiences reading Tolkien–and an unabashed respect for Tolkien’s original creation–their love of the world, the characters, the words, and the vision Tolkien had is clear in every episode.
Jonathan Watson
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Michael Grumbine
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Dan Coats
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With the release of the new Gollum game, we decided to take a deeper dive at this character--not his motivations or history, but what Tolkien specifically said about him in his letters. Tolkien indicates that the most moving scene in all of the Lord of the Rings...
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