So, You Want To Read Tolkien

This week we discuss Chapter 9, At the Sign of the Prancing Pony. Characters Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin – our four hobbits of the Shire. Harry, a (the?) gatekeeper Barliman Butterbut – a Bree man, the proprietor of the Prancing Pony Nob – a hobbit, works for Barliman Strider – a ranger – is […]

Join Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy as they read Chapter 8 of the Fellowship of the Ring, Fog on the Barrow Downs. Characters Frodo Baggins Samwise Gamgee Merry Brandybuck Pippin Took Tom Bombadil Goldberry THE HAND Locations This chapters takes place within the Barrow Downs on the border of the Shire and the Old Forest. In […]

Join Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy as they read Chapter 7 of the Fellowship of the Ring, In the House of Tom Bombadil. Characters Frodo Baggins Samwise Gamgee Merry Brandybuck Pippin Took Tom Bombadil Goldberry Locations This chapters takes place solely within the house of Tom Bombadil, which is within the Old Forest. Tom Bomdadil Theories […]

Join Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy as they read Chapter 6 of the Fellowship of the Ring, The Old Forest. Characters Frodo Baggins Samwise Gamgee Merry Brandybuck Pippin Took Fatty Bolger Old Man Willow Tom Bombadil Goldberry Locations This chapters takes place solely within the Old Forest, on the borders of the Shire. Intro/outro music: The […]

Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Chapter 5 of the Fellowship of the Ring, “A Conspiracy Unmasked.” Characters Frodo Baggins Samwise Gamgee Merry Brandybuck Pippin Took Fatty Bolger Mysterious Black Rider The Hobbits are still in the Shire for this episode but they cross the river into the expanded territory of the Brandybucks and finally arrive […]

Join Caitlin and Rachel and Emmy for a watch-along, commentary style of episode of the 1977 animated Hobbit movie. Really though, this will make zero sense if you’re not watching along. Intro/outro music: The Forest and the Trees Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy, discuss Chapter Four of Fellowship of the Ring, A Shortcut to Mushrooms Characters Frodo – our hero, happy to walk through the wilds of the Shire Sam – not quite as happy to walk through the wilds, but happy to follow Frodo Pippin – sad to miss the best […]

On this week’s episode we discuss chapter 3 of The Fellowship of the Ring, Three’s Company, and discuss the complete wack fact that Frodo speaks Quenya. Characters Frodo Baggins – a hobbit who has recently sold his home. Gandalf – a wizard, who abandons his boy. Samwise Gamgee – Frodo’s gardener. What will he do […]

This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Chapter 2 of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Shadow of the Past. Characters: Frodo Baggins Gandalf Meriadoc Brandybuck Peregrin Took Samwise Gamgee Ted Sandyman THE RING Characters in the Past Sauron – evil dude. Previously, Morgoth’s grounded son. Gil-Galad – last king of the Noldor Elendil – […]

This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss chapter one of The Fellowship of the Ring, a Long Expected Party. Characters Bilbo Baggins – a well off Hobbit that some may remember from previous adventures Gandalf the Grey – a wizard that some may remember from previous adventures Frodo Baggins – a young Hobbit, Bilbo’s nephew […]

Join Caitlin and Rachel and Emily as we do a quick intro discussion before starting Fellowship of the Ring. When did we last read these? How bad are the movies and the books jumbled in our brains? What are we looking forward to about reading these?   Apologies that we don’t have our Hobbit drunk […]

This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emily discuss the final three chapters of the The Hobbit. Characters – The Clouds Burst and the Return Journey Bilbo – A Hobbit. Better than everyone. Gandalf – Our favourite wizard Bard – Dragonslayer, descendant of Girion. The Elvenking – Leader of the Mirkwood Elves. The Arkenstone – it’s basically […]

This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emily discuss Chapters 15 and 16 of the Hobbit. “The Gathering of the Clouds” and “A Thief in the Night.” Characters Bilbo – Who is better than everyone in this book. Thrush – A returning bird. Carc and Roac – New birds! Ravens! Bard – Dragonslayer, descendant of Girion. The […]

This week, we discuss Chapters 13 and 14 of the Hobbit, “Not at Home,” and “Fire and Water.” Chapter 13 Characters Bilbo Cowardly Dwarves The Arkenstone Chapter 14 Characters Bard – A grim voiced fellow. Descendant of Girion, Lord of Dale. The Master of Laketown The Citizens of Laketown The Elven King Smaug – for […]

This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emily discuss the third Hobbit movie, the Battle of Five Armies. Too much Alfrid why does everyone trust him? Lots of poor battle planning Why is Legolas in this movie? No one likes a Sackville-Baggins. Get in touch and join our conversation twitter @toreadtolkien email youwanttoreadtolkien@gmail.com Intro/outro music: The Forest […]

This week Caitlin, Rachel and Emmy discuss Chapter 11 and 12 of the Hobbit, “On the Doorstep” and “Inside Information.” Characters Our regular cast is joined this week by everyone’s favourite Dragon! The Party gets some new pony friends…which very quickly go the same way as the previous ponies. A listener sent in another riddle, […]

This week we discuss Chapters Nine and Ten, Barrels Out of Bond and A Warm Welcome. Characters Bilbo Dwarves Butler Elf Raft-Elves Master of Laketown Barrels. A whoooole lot of Barrels The dwarves are imprisoned in the Elf Kingdom! And then they’re not! Good Ol’ Bilbo. Get in touch and join our conversation twitter @toreadtolkien […]

Join Caitlin, Rachel, and Emily as they discuss Chapter VII of the Hobbit, Flies and Spiders. Characters Bilbo – Our heroic hero The Dwarves – there’s a lot of them. Spiders – they are large, and creepy and we do not like them The Elf King – he’s a bit of a dick.   Here […]

This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emily discuss chapter eight of the Hobbit, Queer Lodgings. We didn’t learn from previous times we only did one chapter. This episode is super short And we talk about other books for about half of it We will never fail you again. Hope you wanted some non-Tolkien book recs!   […]

In this episode Caitlin, Rachel and Emily discuss the second Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug. And by discuss, I mean tear to pieces. No really. Get in touch and join our conversation twitter @toreadtolkien email youwanttoreadtolkien@gmail.com Intro/outro music: The Forest and the Trees Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License […]