The Silmarillion: Chapter Five: Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië
An Unexpected Podcast: Talkin' Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
4.7 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 169 minutes
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Summary
Before the wars, before the Silmarils, before the exile… there was Eldamar.
In this episode, we step into the Blessed Realm itself — the shining lands of the Elves beneath the light of the Two Trees. But beneath the beauty, Tolkien quietly plants the seeds of one of the greatest tragedies in all of Middle-earth.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of an unexpected podcast is brought to you by listeners we never knew we had. Thank you. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello friends and welcome to an unexpected podcast. I'm Ez. And I'm Lane. And we're talking Tolkien. |
| 0:38.9 | We're coming to you from the Shire of America and the beautiful state of Ohio from the North Farthing Studios of Mount Vernon and the back end of a little village called Amanda. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.9 | This episode, we're walking through the purple rain as we cruise along in our little red corvette and kiss the hands of some of the princes of Eldar. |
| 0:52.1 | It's a Michael Jackson reference, guys, okay? |
| 1:28.4 | In chapter five of the El-Dar and the princes of Eldalia. That was the cleanest you've ever read one. Did you read that before? No, no, no, no, I did not at all. I'm just, I'm in the fields. I'm literally in the fields right now. I feel so good. That was electric, dude. That was electric. And a special shout out to Steve, our buddy, Steve Schroeder, House of the Golden Flower patron, a man who, I hope everyone gets to me. I hope he's able to come to LEP4 and that as many people are able to come as possible. Let's just say if you've ever wanted to come to an LEP, you might want to make LEP for the one you come to. |
| 1:30.0 | Because you just never know, guys. |
| 1:31.2 | You just never know. |
| 1:35.8 | But anyway, we open up the dock. |
| 1:39.3 | We share the dock with our top tier patrons, the House of the Golden Flower. |
| 1:42.9 | And we just say, hey, you guys can be commenters if you want to put comments anywhere. |
| 1:48.7 | And Steve was like very adamant about it was like, you guys can be commenters if you want to put comments anywhere. And Steve was like very adamant about, he was like, you guys messed up this reference. |
| 1:51.0 | This is not Michael Jackson. |
| 1:51.8 | This is Prince. |
| 1:56.0 | And I was like, yeah, because Steve's from Minnesota. |
| 2:01.6 | You know, that's where Prince is from, you know, many, I'm pretty sure Minneapolis, right? |
| 2:05.2 | Like he was, yeah, it was like a, that's where he's from. |
| 2:10.8 | And anyway, so a huge shout out to Steve for trying to set us straight, even though it was. |
| 2:15.6 | It was literally because, yeah, I just got it. |
| 2:27.5 | So, like, so if that helps Steve at all, Steve, I thank you for pointing it out because I just got that that's not Michael Jackson. |
| 2:28.3 | Michael Jackson. |
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