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Time to take a long expected journey with actor and director Joe Raik as we delve deep into JRR Tolkein's seminal masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. As is fitting a saga of this stature, we simply couldn't complete our quest in one episode. This week we'll start with our childhood memories, our favorite moments, and we'll just dip our toes in the shallow end of the cringe pool when we talk about Middle Earth's racial politics. 

SUPPLEMENTAL LINKS:

Reddit: Hilarious 50th Anniversary Edition of 'The Hobbit' (Abby's Elementary School Copy)

LATimes: J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Fall of Arthur’ and the path to Middle-Earth by Elizabeth Hand

Revisiting Race in Tolkien’s Legendarium: Constructing Cultures and Ideologies in an Imaginary World by Dimitra Fimi

From the Mailbag: The Unbearable Baggage of Orcing by N. K. Jemisin

Bookshop.org: The Elizabethan World Picture by E.M.W. Tillyard

PodCastle.com: Senator Bilbo by Andy Duncan

RadioLab: The Ring and I

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Diane and Sean discuss the premiere installment of arguably one of the greatest film trilogies of all time, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Episode music is "Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All" by Howard Shore, and "May It Be" by Enya from the OST.