All right, my name is Dan Coates. I'm here with Kyle Mann editor in chief. We are here today with Austin Freeman

who is a lecturer at Houston Christian University

Classical school teacher and you have a PhD in theology and systematic theology and

Thanks for coming in today, but he's really fun

So don't let that fool you and now it's time for another interview on the Babylon B podcast

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Yeah, so you're kind of a Tolkien buff you you've taught classes on Tolkien and you wrote a giant book on Tolkien

So we just had to bring you in and ask you

Why didn't they just take the Eagles to Mordor?

Yeah, so I cover that in the first five pages of the book actually

No, that's a joke. Anybody that wants to buy the book to I told you this guy was fun

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