The Tolkien Lore Podcast

298 Episodes

1. How J.R.R. Tolkien Almost Ruined His Middle-Earth Mythology

   Published: 3/17/2025
2. How Providence Made the Most of Boromir Taking Faramir’s Place

   Published: 3/10/2025
3. Are Peter Jackson’s Deviations from Tolkien Really Justified by Adaptation?

   Published: 3/3/2025
4. Details Peter Jackson Got Right in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of Five Armies

   Published: 2/24/2025
5. Did Gandalf Make a Huge Blunder Allowing Frodo to Wait to Leave the Shire?

   Published: 2/17/2025
6. Was Gandalf a Machiavellian Schemer Who Used Others as Pawns?

   Published: 2/10/2025
7. How the Animated Tolkien Films Capture What Jackson Misses

   Published: 2/3/2025
8. How Peter Jackson's LOTR Trilogy Won the Loyalty of Die Hard Book Fans

   Published: 1/27/2025
9. Tolkien’s Heroes Are NOT Perfect—Let’s Look at Their Character Flaws

   Published: 1/20/2025
10. Details Peter Jackson Got Right in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

    Published: 1/13/2025
11. Tom Bombadil as Middle-Earth's Melchizedek?

    Published: 1/6/2025
12. How Tolkien Exalts the Humble and Humbles the Proud in Middle-Earth

    Published: 12/30/2024
13. Details in Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King” that Only Book Superfans Notice, Part 2

    Published: 12/23/2024
14. The Tolkien Geek Reviews “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”

    Published: 12/14/2024
15. Details in Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King” that Only Book Superfans Notice, Part 1

    Published: 12/9/2024
16. Details Peter Jackson Got Right in “Return of the King,” Part 2

    Published: 12/2/2024
17. Details Peter Jackson Got Right in "Return of the King," Part 1

    Published: 11/25/2024
18. An Extremely Nitpicky Review of Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King,” Part 2

    Published: 11/18/2024
19. An Extremely Nitpicky Review of Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King,” Part 1

    Published: 11/11/2024
20. The Real Reason You Don’t Like “Rings of Power” (It’s Not “the Canon”)

    Published: 11/4/2024