In our third installment of the Stewards of Gondor, we get to the family interactions between Denethor, Boromir, and Faramir. It’s all about leadership style, oddly enough. Dan shares some of his military experience,

In this continuation of our conversation about the stewards of Gondor, we talk about Denethor using the palantír, Sauron using the palantír, and the different military situations in Osgiliath and Ithilien. Episode Timeline

In this episode we start our conversation about the Stewards of Gondor. We discuss why Gondor has stewards instead of a king and how Denethor is kind of a baby about it. We touch on why Denethor seems so annoyed with Gandalf.

In part 2 of the Istari episode, we talked briefly about stone carving and the Lizzadro Museum. Erica got really excited about it, so we decided to go and record a little bit afterwards, and this is the result.

This is a discussion we had in pieces while recording our upcoming episode on The House of Denethor (scheduled for release September 28th). We talk about the relationship between Aragorn and Elrond and why it's such a big deal to Elrond that his daught...

We talked about it at about 18:30-23.30 in part 2 of the Istari episode, and now we're going to the LIzzadro Museum of Lapidary Arts! - We're going to try something new out and give you a little podcast slice of life by recording our reactions afterwa...

In this, final installment of our discussion on the istari, we get to Gandalf and Saruman. We discuss Saruman’s jealousy of Gandalf, what REALLY happened with Gandalf and the balrog, and the lost istari… Tim and Dirk. -   -

In this second part of our Istari episode, we get WAY off topic… or are we just doing some holistic detective work to get where we needed to be? - We discuss a little bit about the less known wizards, Radagast, Alatar, and Pallando.

In this episode, we talk about the Istari, perhaps better known as the wizards! That's right, we're talking about Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, and yes, a couple more. Who are they? Why are they in Middle-Earth? What about Sauron, does he count?

In this discussion from our Gandalf and the rings episode, we talk about the theme of hand/finger loss in Tolkien’s writing. We get Wormtongue and Wormtail mixed up. We acknowledge the ableism in the treatment of hand loss.