284 – Tolkien Reading Day 2023

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Alan Sisto

Film Reviews, Books, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2023

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Pack your bags and renew your passports as you join us for the PPP’s eighth annual celebration of Tolkien Reading Day, observed every March 25 in honor of the destruction of the Ring and the fall of Barad-dûr. This year’s theme, as chosen by the Tolkien Society, is Travel and Adventure! Alan and his new co-host Marcel, the Tolkienist, go through some of their favorite Tolkien passages to highlight the theme, from the Great Elven Road Trip to the Fellowship’s Final Journey. Plus, a correction about Dol Goldur and #ambitiousorc starts trending. Also, there may be singing.

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0:00.0	Well, good evening, little masters, and welcome to episode 284 of the Brancing Pony podcast
0:16.6	where today, you know, we're going to take a break from discussing the text and spend
0:20.6	more of our time just reading it.
0:22.7	After all, it's talking reading day, not talking discussion day.
0:26.7	Folks, pull up a bench in the common room and join us.
0:29.4	I'm Marcelo Brombellis, the tokenist, and I'm here with the man of the West who only
0:34.6	recently learned how to read Alan Cistero.
0:37.8	Thanks a lot, Marcel.
0:39.5	Folks, it is hard to believe, but despite his claim, we are actually celebrating our
0:43.0	eighth annual Tolkien Reading Day special today here on the Brancing Pony podcast.
0:47.7	Folks, some of you are here in this podcast for the very first time.
0:51.0	And to you, we bid a very warm welcome.
0:53.8	Here at the Brancing Pony podcast, we are reading, talking, speculating, and often joking.
0:59.2	Our way through Middle-Earth, a few pages at a time.
1:02.6	Usually.
1:03.6	But every year on March 25th, the Tolkien Society organizes Tolkien Reading Day to encourage
1:09.2	fans to celebrate and promote the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien by reading favorite
1:13.8	passages.
1:15.5	Why March 25th?
1:17.4	Because that is the date of the downfall of Sauron and the destruction of Baratua.
1:22.1	Now because this episode is coming out almost but not quite, a week before that, you've
1:26.7	still got a little time to figure out what your reading is going to be.
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