The Lorehounds: The Second Age - Chapter 4: The Rings of Power

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🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

David and John discuss Tolkien’s influence on modern fantasy before telling the story of the forging of the Rings of Power. Join us to continue our deep dive into the lore behind Amazon’s upcoming series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Questions? Comments? Wild speculation? Send us an email at [email protected] and we’ll get back to you on our Epilogue podcast, which will air on August 29, 2022. Ad free versions of this and all other Bald Move podcasts can be yours by going to patreon.com/baldmove Find us on twitter @thelorehounds or join us for further discussion of all things Tolkien over on the Bald Move Discord server: https://discord.gg/baldmove Sources: (1) J.R.R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter; (2) The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien; (3) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Second Age Upcoming Topics and Release Schedule Prologue: Tolkien the man and the lands and people of Middle Earth (Jul 11, 2022) Ch. 1: History of Tolkien’s writings and the rise of Númenor (Jul 18, 2022) Ch. 2: History of film, tv, and radio adaptations and the fall of Númenor (Jul 25, 2022) Ch. 3: Tolkien’s academic career and a breakdown of the Elves (Aug 1, 2022) Ch. 4: Tolkien’s influence on modern fantasy and the creation of the Rings (Aug 8, 2022) Ch. 5: Tolkien’s wartime experience and The Last Alliance of Men and Elves (Aug 15, 2022) Ch. 6: Christopher Tolkien and the Aftermath of the war with Sauron (Aug 22, 2022) Epilogue: Listener Q&A - email us and/or post in the discord (Aug 29, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Second Age Podcast, where the Lorehounds, your guides to Tolkien's world
0:24.4	of Middle-Earth.
0:25.4	I'm David.
0:26.4	I'm John, and this is Chapter 4, The Rings of Power.
0:29.3	In this episode, we've got three segments for you.
0:31.8	We've got a discussion of Tolkien's impact on the genre of modern fantasy, the discussion
0:37.2	of the themes of the desire to dominate and the importance of the intent to create, and
0:43.3	a deep dive into the creation of the rings themselves.
0:47.5	Before we get started, here's a quick reminder that you can send feedback to secondagipbaldmove.com
0:52.4	and we'll get to those questions on the final episode, which will be a Q&A.
0:56.0	If you want to talk Tolkien with us sooner than that, you can always join the Baldmove
0:59.6	Discord server.
1:00.9	There's a link in the show description and over at Baldmove.com.
1:05.2	And be sure to get all the Baldmove and Lorehounds coverage of Rings of Power by subscribing
1:09.2	to the Doug 2 Deep Podcast feed.
1:12.6	We're going to be releasing exclusive content on this feed so you don't want to miss out.
1:16.8	Click on the link in the show notes or search for Doug 2 Deep in your podcast application
1:22.4	of choice.
1:24.4	So let's get started with a discussion of Tolkien's impact on modern fantasy.
1:30.6	Yeah.
1:31.6	So this is an interesting topic, John, and I don't know how much you are steeped in the
1:42.2	worlds of modern fantasy.
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