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Oct 07 2024







Welcome to The Tolkien Road Episode 393!

In this bonus MATHOMS episode of DO NOT BE HASTY, we’ll take a look at some fascinating footnotes to the Foreword and Prologue of The Lord of Rings!

TOPICS COVERED:
– Lord of the Rings’ attraction
– The Silmarillion adapted
– Negative reviews of Lord of the Rings
– Tolkien vs allegory
– Sarehole Mill as Hobbiton
– The word “Hobbit”
– “Dwarrow”, Dwarfs, Dwarves
– Tolkien’s description of hobbits
– The location of Middle-earth
– Arnor / Gondor meanings
– Marcho and Blanco found the Shire
– Angmar meaning
– The Shire is rural England
– Origin of “Shirriff”














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