Alan Sisto
speaker
5,555 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Alan Sisto’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Ultra yoga.
I was thinking stupid human tricks, but that works either way.
We did skip a bit in this reading as we have to skip something, but let's at least go over it.
As the metal tools became more common, so this would be after connecting with the elves and beginning trade with the dwarves in the Blue Mountains.
Well, it turns out the Druidine have a real talent for carving.
By the way, I love this sort of detail.
I mean, this is wild stuff.
Tolkien is talking about the development of their art as a culture.
and how this contrasts with the choice that we talked about in the last section about them not having a written language.
And it's such a really interesting thing.
And it's another one of these like,
I didn't need to go into all this detail, the professor says, but I did because I'm trying to give you a world that feels real at every level.
And this has that inconsistency of reality.
They start creating figures of, of people and animals.
And sometimes they're just small, you know, like something you'd put on a bookshelf or something.
Other times they were large and the best of their artists could make these sculptures look like they were practically alive.
I mean, you'd be, you'd look at this thing and you wouldn't see it as like,
you know, an image, you would see it almost as real.
Like, whoa, wait a minute.
I love that.
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