The Prancing Pony Podcast
Episodes
006 - Tolkien Reading Day Special 2016
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Tolkien Reading Day! On March 25 every year - the date of the fall of Barad-dûr - Tolkien lovers worldwide celebrate by reading and promoting...
005 - The Music of the Ainur
13 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Reunited in the common-room and finally beginning their discussion of The Silmarillion, Alan and Shawn tackle nothing less than the creation of the un...
004 - The Great War
10 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This time, Alan flies solo over the battlefields of World War I and discusses both the explicit and the implied influences that the Great War had on T...
003 - The Origins of Quenya and Sindarin
01 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn takes a solo look at the real-world linguistic inspirations that shaped Tolkien's invented Elvish languages, Quenya and Sindarin, while Alan is ...
002 - The Myth-lover
28 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our introduction to J. R. R. Tolkien's ideas on fantasy and myth with a look at his short poem dedicated to C. S. Lewis, "Mythopoeia" - a ...
001 - In Defense of Fantasy
22 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode, get to know your hosts, Alan and Shawn, and learn about why we started The Prancing Pony Podcast. We also discuss favorite mom...