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Thinking Fellows

Reading Tolkien

Thinking Fellows

1517 Podcasts

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Thinking Fellows prepare to read the fictional works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Caleb and Adam discuss what makes Tolkien unique and some of the challenges of analyzing his work. In particular, they focus on Tolkien as a devout Roman Catholic. Tolkien's Roman practice of the Christian faith colors his work in a way that is different from protestant authors like C.S. Lewis and helps explain why his work is not always clearly "Christian" to outside readers.

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0:00.0

Hello there, and welcome to the Thank you, Fellows, podcast, part of the 1517 podcast network of shows.

0:24.4

You can go to 1517.org slash podcasts to see all of our shows there.

0:30.4

My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Dr. Adam Francisco.

0:36.9

Just Adam Francisco, because your dad's somewhere in a car.

0:43.3

He's, yeah, isn't he always somewhere in a car?

0:46.8

Almost as much as I am.

0:48.9

Or truck.

0:50.0

He'd probably want us to say truck, because that's pretty, he's probably driving a truck, right?

0:53.4

A diesel truck?

0:54.2

He is in his truck this time, although he had not been driving it very often for a little bit, you know, gas prices and all.

1:03.3

Yeah, diesel, especially as Sky High out there, how you understand?

1:07.0

Yeah, yeah, it really is.

1:08.8

It really is.

1:09.8

It was funny.

1:10.3

We went on a, we did this, Eric and I and the kids did a road trip where I went and set up podcasting equipment for our new show, preaching the text, which you can subscribe to on Apple Podcasts and such like that. But when I was driving up there, got into nevada and Oregon and when i was in

1:29.7

nevada diesel was 10 cents cheaper a gallon than gas which i hadn't seen in a long time yeah

1:36.6

interesting i remember the days when i bought my truck or i was thinking about buying this truck that

1:41.0

i have and you know i'm i don't know if sc Scott's ever kidded me on the show about being cheap,

1:46.9

but I'm cheap.

1:47.6

And he was pushing and even making fun of me for not wanting to get a diesel truck.

1:54.0

And I remember one of my arguments was, I don't know how this is going to go here in California.

1:57.8

At that time, we were living there, and I was expecting to live there and die there.

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