Tim's Tolkien Obsession & Amazon Prime's The Rings of Power

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Tim Harford's life has been building up to this moment. In this Cautionary Conversation, he discusses the works of his favorite author J.R.R. Tolkien and the social science at play in Amazon Prime's series The Rings of Power. What do elves and whistleblowers have in common? How can evil hide in plain sight? And where do orcs come from?

This episode is sponsored by Amazon Prime's The Rings of Power. Season 2 of The Rings of Power is available to watch on Prime Video from August 29th.

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0:00.0	This is the story of a young woman who disappeared.
0:04.0	She cut ties with all of her family and friends,
0:08.0	apparently because of one woman, a kind of therapist,
0:12.0	and the extraordinary things she led her client to believe.
0:15.0	She was just always look at the dream, look at your memories, it's all there, you just need to believe it.
0:21.0	As I started to investigate, it turned out this young woman wasn't the only one.
0:26.5	From tortoise this is dangerous memories. Listen wherever you get your
0:31.6	podcasts.
0:33.0	Pushkin.
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to Pushkin.
0:45.0	Hello and welcome to Cautionary Tales. I am Tim Harford.
0:47.0	This is one of our Cautionary Conversations episodes.
0:50.0	We are sponsored this week by Amazon Prime, the creators of The Rings of Power,
0:56.0	and I'm actually so excited I could pop.
0:58.0	I'm in the studio with Alice Fines, cautionary tales, series producer,
1:02.0	and why am I so excited excited Alice? You're so excited
1:04.7	because we're about to do a massive rundown of all your favorite cautionary
1:08.4	tales and the works of your favorite author Tolkien. Yes we're going to talk about Jara Tolkien,
1:14.1	we're going to talk about the Rings of Power,
1:15.4	and we're going to talk about cautionary tales.
1:17.1	It's like all my birthdays and Christmas
1:20.0	have come at the same time.
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