Welcome to The Tolkien Road podcast! Join co-hosts John & Greta as they journey chapter-by-chapter through The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and all of Tolkien’s other works, and the lore of the entire Middle-earth legendarium!
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With the end of the First Age, Númenor – the land of gift – is granted to the group of
In the history of Númenor and its descendant culture Gondor, a lineage of iconic White Trees stands as the symbolic
With the passage of Frodo, Bilbo, and Gandalf from the Grey Havens, Middle-earth’s Third Age comes to an end. Yet
With Smaug vanquished, Erebor & Dale restored, and Dol Guldur abandoned, a new era of peace for Middle-earth seems to
Exiled by Smaug, the dwarves of Erebor wander Middle-earth, seeking out a new home, yet new perils and vicious foes
With Gondor increasingly hemmed in, the Rohirrim emerge as a new ally in the struggle against the forces of Mordor,
With Arnor fallen, and Gondor in decline and under increasing attacks from outside, it’s looking bad for Númenorean civilization. Yet
While the first millennium of the Third Age saw the rise and expansion of both Arnor and Gondor, the second
With the defeat of Sauron at the end of the Second Age, the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor are free
From the first defeat of Sauron at the end of the Second Age to the events of The Hobbit and
“I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ – though it contains (and in a legend
“I have just passed on from believing in God to definitely believing in Christ – in Christianity. . . .
“What we’ve learned is that we haven’t actually learned what we thought we learned…” – GRETA Enjoy this episode? Leave
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