Get The App!
Get the App!
Listen to all our latest podcast episodes… or subscribe on any podcast player! Just look for “Exploring Tolkien”!
“Day shall come again” is the rallying cry at the start of this chapter… but it all goes wrong! Chapter 2 of The Children of Húrin is the bloodiest, most complete defeat for elves and men at the hands of Morgoth.
In this episode, we examine the opening chapter of The Children of Húrin, exploring the foundational relationships and lineage that shape Turin’s fate.
We finally return to Tolkien’s First Age for a new deep-dive series on The Children of Hurin.
The Story of Kullervo was likely the earliest inspiration for one of Tolkien’s greatest stories — The Children of Húrin.
This episode tackles two more changes from Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring—Saruman orchestrating the storm on Caradhras, and the missing warg attack in Hollin. We break down how these adaptations simplify Middle-earth, debate whether Saruman’s powers go too...
Boromir handles the Ring, and Stephen Colbert handles a movie script.
In this episode, we dig into two crucial scenes: the iconic formation of the Fellowship and the bridge-side tryst between Aragorn and Arwen.
Sean Astin reflects on wrapping up The Lord of the Rings films in this 2003 roundtable interview retrospective.
We dig into Peter Jackson’s “orc pod” scenes and the cinematic invention of Lurtz, the alpha Uruk-hai,, then look at Tolkien’s less-than-precise lore against the movies’ need for explaining the Uruk-hai.
Here are two of the most unloved film changes in the Lord of the Rings: Arwen replacing Glorfindel in the Flight to the Ford and making Arwen the only one with power and agency.
