By-The-Bywater: A Podcast about All Things J.R.R. Tolkien
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By-The-Bywater: A Podcast about All Things J.R.R. Tolkien
All things J.R.R. Tolkien: his work, his inspirations and impact, creative interpretations in other media, languages, lore, ripoffs, parodies, anything we think is interesting!
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76. It Seems Like It Sucks Up There.
On the long-gone realms of Arnor and Angmar.


74. You’re Always Left On Read by Manwë!
On monarchy, through the lens of Aragorn as king.

73. Don’t Misgender the Eagle!
On the 1981 BBC radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.



70. It Was Like a Looney Tunes Ham!
On The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.



67. It’s Kinda Like Ron Swanson Winning the Woman of the Year Award.
On The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.



64. I’m Not Even in Japan, I’m in a Different Country Entirely!
On resisting Tolkien.

63. Once Upon a Time There Was a Little Bunny.
On allegory and applicability.


61. What Is It with Straight Men and Red Hair?
On Terry Brooks’s novel The Sword of Shannara.


59. I Physically Recoiled from the Book at That Point.
Silicon Valley's misinterpretations of Tolkien.

58. What an Absolute Nightmare This Man Would Have Been to Work With.
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

57. There’s No Rule That Says a Girl Can’t Kill the Witch-king!
Peter Jackson’s version of The Return of the King.

56. The Long Defeat Is Maybe Going on a Little Too Long.
All about the Noldor.

55. There Was a Lot to Remember Here and I Don’t Remember Most of It.
Tolkien's unfinished novel The Notion Club Papers.



52. This Weird Paranoia Paradise Vibe.
Tolkien’s posthumous collection The Fall of Númenor.



49. Some Kind of Horrible Subpar D&D Fop Who Just Shows Up.
The Rankin-Bass adaptation of The Return of the King.



46. Bad Performance Review as an Actual Plot Point.
Tolkien’s short children’s works, Roverandom and Mr. Bliss.


44. (Various Sighs and Groans.)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season 1.




40. Dude, Just Make a Language!
On Tolkien’s essay A Secret Vice and constructed languages.