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
“I must admit that I smiled a kind of sickly smile . . . when I heard of that bloodthirsty
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy…” – Tolkien Though not a particularly political person, Tolkien expressed some
Unfortunately we had to postpone our episode with Pints With Jack’s David Bates (go check that out for some CS Lewis goodness).
Tolkien lived in one of the greatest periods of upheaval, strife, and societal change in human history: from 1914 through
