278 – The Lion & Unicorn: Another Visit with John Garth

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Alan Sisto

Film Reviews, Books, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Alan and James welcome John Garth in his return to the Common Room here at The Prancing Pony Podcast! We talk about everything in this one: his landmark work Tolkien and the Great War, his essay in The Great Tales Never End, his talk at the J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript exhibition, his thoughts on The Fall of Númenor, and more. Bonus bits: A lion and unicorn provide convincing proof, John stops James from snoring, Tolkien falls down the stairs, and the expert misspells a headline.

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0:00.0	With BT Broadband and TV, you can say goodbye to boredom, and hello to...
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0:30.0	Well, good evening, little masters, and welcome to episode 278 of the Brancing Pointy Podcast,
0:46.2	where sometimes, our luck is greater than we deserve.
0:49.4	Only sometimes, Alan.
0:51.4	Well, you know, I mean, okay.
0:56.2	Folks pull up a bench in the common room and join us.
0:58.5	I'm James Taber, the Sage of the South, and I'm here with the man of the West who always
1:04.2	nervous around the giants of Tolkien's scholarship, Alan Sisto.
1:07.8	Well, I seem to have gotten over it with you at least, James.
1:12.4	Folks today, we're welcoming back a familiar friend of the common room here at the Brancing
1:15.8	Pointy Podcast.
1:16.8	Sean Marquez and I first had the privilege of interviewing him for episode 44 all the
1:20.9	way back in 2017.
1:22.0	Then he joined us live at MythMute 5 in 2018.
1:25.8	That's episode 88, if you want to go back to that.
1:28.4	Again at Tolkien 2019 for episode 136.
1:32.2	You had him on again in 2020 in episode 166, and we got to catch up with him all too
1:37.5	briefly when we were in Oxford last May for the Amazon event.
1:41.1	Indeed, so joining us then for his fifth appearance on the Brancing Pointy Podcast is the
1:45.0	acclaimed writer, biographer, and editor, John Garth.
1:48.6	You probably know best for writing Tolkien and the Great War, the award-winning and absolutely
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