The Silmarillion: Ainulindalë: The Music of the Ainur (Part 1)
An Unexpected Podcast: Talkin' Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Part 1 - In this episode of An Unexpected Podcast, we embark on our new journey to cover the Silmarillion and march our way back through Tolkien's legendarium. We have a lot of catching up to do in this episode: Quick Council, Droppin Eaves (Rings of Power Season 3 News & the Hunt for Gollum news & speculation), and other corners of Middle Earth. In Part 2, we will be discussing Tolkien's letter 131 and part I of the Silmarillion - Ainulindalë: The Music of the Ainur
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of an unexpected podcast is brought to you by and dedicated to Susie Millhouse. |
| 0:05.6 | Small acts of kindness really do keep the darkness at bay. Hello, friends, and welcome to an unexpected podcast. I'm As. And I'm Lane. And we're talking Tolkien. |
| 0:34.1 | We're coming to you from the North Farthing, just a couple of first-age |
| 0:38.0 | Smiths sweating it out in the high ground studio in the house of Kirk. Well, technically, |
| 0:44.5 | the garage of Kirk, Garageley area, you know, in the North Farthing Studios. What a place. |
| 0:51.4 | Garagely. |
| 0:52.0 | What place we're in? Garagely, my friends. |
| 0:54.4 | Make a big name, garagely. |
| 0:57.1 | This episode, the shadow's been vanquished. |
| 1:00.6 | There's been a healing of harms. |
| 1:02.8 | And we're ready for some good music that points to the one as we welcome the return of all things and hear the beginning of it all again with |
| 1:14.2 | Christopher's Ford and the Ainolindele in the beginnings of our Silmarillion re-read through. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.8 | That's probably the best I've ever off just. |
| 1:24.0 | I was waiting for you to fumble at some point. |
| 1:27.7 | And no, dude. I'd never read it before fumble at some point. And no, |
| 1:28.0 | dude. |
| 1:28.3 | I'd never read it before. |
| 1:29.2 | All you needs a little bit of peanut butter and jelly inside you. |
| 1:42.4 | Let's go. Liquid peanut butter and jelly, not liquid courage. Maybe they're the same thing. Well, maybe that's Miravir. I don't know. And you're ready to go. So we're in the North Farthing. this space you've created, |
| 1:43.9 | I have to be honest, |
| 1:45.4 | when I took a look in this garage, |
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