Exploring Tolkien
Exploring Tolkien is a weekly show that dives deep into JRR Tolkien and all the ages of Middle-earth. Jonathan Watson and Michael Grumbine are your hosts as they read through Tolkien’s works, interview other Tolkien enthusiasts and authors, and critically examine how Tolkien’s world is being treated by mega-corporations like Amazon.com and Warner Bros.
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Bilbo and the barrel-sealed dwarves make it to Laketown--with most of them barely alive!
In this very special episode, we reveal the exact barrel music sung in Thranduil's halls as the dwarves were tossed into the river!
Bilbo fully embraces his role as hero and finds a way to save the dwarves.
Bilbo is the only one left to save the dwarves--and to his own surprise, he's up to the task!
Here is an approximation of Tolkien's voice reading Ainulindalë from The Silmarillion that we put together including some of his idiosyncratic pauses and speech patterns.
In this first half of chapter 8 of the hobbit--Flies and Spiders--Jonathan and Michael discuss the evil enchantment of Mirkwood, and if the elves might have a small part in it.
