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Homebrewed Christianity

Have Yourself a Lord of the Rings Christmas Movie Marathon

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 188 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

I hope that no matter where you are in life, you have been able to enjoy the holiday season by eating good food, spending time with friends and family, or at least getting some rest. If the holidays don’t tend to provide comfort, then you can escape and take shelter in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy with Nick Polk from Tolkien Pop! as well as Tolkien Scholar Dr. Craig Boyd! As we enter the eye of the storm that is the holiday season, we will kick off our run of Christmas movies with The Lord of the Rings (the extended editions, of course). Because, in fact, The Lord of the Rings are Christmas movies. The Fellowship is led by a supernatural man with a white beard, the company departs from Rivendell to begin their quest on December 25th (Christmas Day), and there are plenty of Elves to go around! To solidify the argument even further, Tolkien wrote his children Letters from Father Christmas (Santa Claus) every year during the Christmas season in their adolescence. In these letters, Tolkien told of Santa and his elves fighting off a goblin army. We even see glimpses of Tolkien’s invented Elvish language script in the letters. The legendarium was partly developed in and through a Christmas fantasy world sandbox. We talk about all these things and more as a sort of “pregame†into our Christmas Movie Marathon and will come back with another “postgame†livestream with Dr. Craig Boyd and some other special guests that you won’t wanna miss. So, with all that said, let’s go on a Middle-earth Christmas adventure! Craig A. Boyd is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Saint Louis University. Among the books he has published are The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction, with Kevin Timpe (Oxford University, 2021), Virtues and Their Vices, co-edited with Kevin Timpe (Oxford University Press, 2014), and A Shared Morality: A Narrative Defense of Natural Law Ethics (Brazos Press, 2007). His scholarly articles have appeared in such venues as The Heythrop Journal, Christian Scholar’s Review, Christianity & Literature, New Blackfriars, and American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. Nick Polk (Tolkien Pop!) is the production editor for Mallorn, the academic journal of The Tolkien Society. His most recent research includes his essay entitled “Middle-earth in South Park: The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers as Parody.†Other than Tolkien, his other loves include his wife Kelly, coffee, and punk. Nothing sounds better than starting the day reading a Tolkien book with a cup of coffee and ending it in a moshpit with loved ones. One Stream to Rule them ALL: Prepping for a LOTR Christmas Movie Marathon https://t.co/xCDvZ3ZIHv — Theology Nerd (@HomebrewedXnty)  November 30, 2023   Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is up theology nerds?

0:08.9

This is Tripp and this episode of the homebrewed Christianity podcast is it's like theological pre-gaming for your for your Christmas break rewatch of the lord of the rings extended edition

0:23.3

movie trilogy joined by craig boyd nick polk uh homebrewed regulars in when we get tolkeny

0:30.9

and we have ourselves a good time but it's look it's it's an extended edition episode i think

0:35.5

it's over three hours and And here's your heads up.

0:37.7

By the end.

0:38.8

By the end.

0:40.9

I start crying, telling stories.

0:43.5

This is what happens when Shrip does Lord of the Rings.

0:46.2

He gets real emotional.

0:48.4

So, yeah.

0:49.7

But, you know, when we did this as a live stream on the internet, we're having ourselves a good time at three or four hundred people. And then, um, I guess, I guess I got in trouble with YouTube and

0:59.6

they cut the stream off because I played an audio clip that was too long from the movies.

1:04.3

So who knows, who knows, who knows? They sent me a warning, but wouldn't explain it.

1:09.3

But this is your warning because this is about Tolkien.

1:13.2

That's what we're going to talk about the entire time.

1:15.1

It's funny.

1:16.0

It's got nerdy parts.

1:17.8

It's got sharing and emotions and all that kind of good stuff.

1:21.1

And I hope you enjoy it.

1:22.5

And then watch the films, participate along with us when we get back together and such.

1:28.0

But right before we hop in, just know, just know this advent, which is kicking off very, very soon, those four weeks leading up to Christmas.

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