Tag: The Hobbit

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Episode 977: Unweaving Mat Cauthon and Other News

• September 27, 2021
• Tagged as: Blue Velvet, Disney, Dracula, flight of the navigator, Indiana Jones, Lizard People, Mat, Mat Cauthon, Matrim Cauthon, Moiraine, Obi-Wan Kenobi, quantum leap, Return of the Jedi, star wars, Star Wars: A New Hope, star wars: the force awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, star wars: the phantom menace, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Taxi Driver, The Dragon Reborn, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, unweaving the wheel of time

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Recasts on “The Wheel of Time” series. And other news!

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• Time Loop

Episode 894: The Best of the Best: Part 3: That’s What I’m Tolkien About!

• March 9, 2021
• Tagged as: A Wizard of Earthsea, avengers, Bilbo, End of the Year Listener Appreciation Jubilee, Gandalf, Gollum, j.r.r. tolkien, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2, marvel, Smaug, star wars, The Avengers, The Best of the Best, The Children of Húrin, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, The Shire, The Silmarillion, The Two Towers, there and back again, Tolkien, Unfinished Tales

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono For our 10-year anniversary celebration, we are Time Looping each of the “Best Episode of the Year” award winners, as voted on by our listeners for every year’s…

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Episode 879: Rage For The Shire

• February 2, 2021
• Tagged as: saruman, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Rage is sometimes needed to win a fight.

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• Theology

Episode 669: Narrative Realism

• August 20, 2018
• Tagged as: 2001: A Space Odyssey, an unexpected journey, desolation of smaug, hobbit, LOST, Signs, the battle of the five armies, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Village, Unbreakable

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben continues the “Narrative Theology” conversation as he explains how a level of belief is required for accepting a story’s mythology. PART 1: Episode 663: Narrative Theory

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Episode 370: Fantasy and the Academy

• June 25, 2015
• Tagged as: A Clash of Kings, A Dance with Dragons, A Feast For Crows, A Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, a storm of swords, deadhouse gates, dust of dreams, gardens of the moon, George R. R. Martin, house of chains, Malazan Book of the Fallen, memories of ice, midnight tides, reaper's gale, return of the king, Steven Erikson, the bonehunters, the crippled god, The Hobbit, The Lord of Rings, Tolkien, toll the hounds, two towers

Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono Ben discusses the need to be more intelligent and engaged readers and gives an overview of three fantasy series.

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Advent Antiphons in a Sci-Fi Key: December 21 – Radiant Dawn

• December 21, 2014
• Tagged as: Advent, Christian Year, Galadriel, prayer, The Hobbit, Tolkien

The Lady Galadriel who rules the forest of Lórien, is renowned for her beauty (among other traits, including her wisdom and mercy). Gimli the dwarf deems her fairer than “all the jewels that lie beneath…

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Substance, Accident, Aquinas, and Adapting The Hobbit

• December 17, 2014
• Tagged as: The Hobbit, thomas aquinas

The final movie in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy releases today, and with it will no doubt come another round of debate about what filmmakers should and shouldn’t do when adapting a novel. By now, and…

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“The Hobbit:” One Sci-Fi Christian’s Review (with spoilers)

• January 3, 2013
• Tagged as: The Hobbit, Tolkien

I hesitate to say I enjoyed The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey even more than I enjoyed John Carter, only because I know that won’t sound like high praise to most moviegoers. But if you read…

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A Middle-earth dearth of women?

• September 22, 2011
• Tagged as: Evangeline Lilly, The Hobbit, Tolkien

If you’re looking forward to director Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit (I know I am), you likely already know that Evangeline Lilly, late of Lost, has been cast as an elf named Tauriel, a…