The Silmarillion: Chapter Four: Of Thingol and Melian
An Unexpected Podcast: Talkin' Tolkien
Lord of the Rings
4.7 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 188 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we journey into one of the most quietly powerful chapters of The Silmarillion: Of Thingol and Melian.
This is the story where myth slows down and something rare happens — an Elf and a Maia meet beneath the stars, and Middle-earth is changed forever. But obviously we caught a whiff of some conspiracy stuff ...
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of an unexpected podcast is brought to you by Lord Stephen Schroeder of Gondolin. |
| 0:04.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello, friends, and welcome to an unexpected podcast. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm as. |
| 0:27.4 | And I'm Lane. |
| 0:30.2 | And we're talking Tolkien. |
| 0:34.6 | We're coming to you from the Shire of America and the beautiful state of Ohio. |
| 0:38.6 | From the North Farthing Studios of Mount Vernon and the bag end of a little village called Amanda I was down in the Baja |
| 0:44.1 | it's time to come out of retirement Jesse Ventura you know why they call it the |
| 0:51.6 | planet Venus do you know why they call it that |
| 0:54.6 | dude that's really good |
| 0:57.2 | I have no follow for that |
| 0:58.5 | that's a really good voice |
| 0:59.5 | I want to be Jesse Ventura I think |
| 1:00.8 | he was getting in there deep |
| 1:04.0 | getting in there deep |
| 1:05.0 | he got the voice got it all |
| 1:06.1 | summoned he was summoning it dude |
| 1:07.9 | oh yeah um hey well hey this |
| 1:10.0 | this episode friends we're talking about love at first sight. We're talking about Honey Pot City. Is that what they're calling? Honey Pot? Honey Pot. Is that they're? Fly Trap? What are they called? We don't know. We're too old, man. Venus Stumphing. Venus de Milo Trap. Something like that. There it is. |
| 1:28.1 | There it is. |
| 1:28.6 | This is in chapter four of the Silmarian of Thingl and of Melian. |
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