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Welcome to The Tolkien Road Episode 393!
In this bonus MATHOMS episode of DO NOT BE HASTY, we’ll take a look at some fascinating footnotes to the Foreword and Prologue of The Lord of Rings!
TOPICS COVERED:
- Lord of the Rings' attraction
- The Silmarillion adapted
- Negative reviews of Lord of the Rings
- Tolkien vs allegory
- Sarehole Mill as Hobbiton
- The word "Hobbit"
- "Dwarrow", Dwarfs, Dwarves
- Tolkien's description of hobbits
- The location of Middle-earth
- Arnor / Gondor meanings
- Marcho and Blanco found the Shire
- Angmar meaning
- The Shire is rural England
- Origin of "Shirriff"
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