Podcasts by By-The-Bywater: A Tolkien Podcast
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!
Further podcasts by Ned, Oriana, and Jared @ Megaphonic.fm
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57. There’s No Rule That Says a Girl Can’t Kill the Witch-king! from 2023-12-04T16:04:43
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss their collective choice of topic: Peter Jackson’s version of The Return of the King. It’s been twenty years ...
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56. The Long Defeat Is Maybe Going on a Little Too Long. from 2023-11-07T01:10:51
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: the Noldor. Also termed the Deep-elves and, in early versions of the legendarium, ...
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55. There Was a Lot to Remember Here and I Don’t Remember Most of It. from 2023-10-02T14:04:15
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: The Notion Club Papers. Written in 1945 during a creative pause in completing the fin...
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54. The Pleasures of the Robot Dancehall. from 2023-09-04T06:39
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: The Lost Road. In 1937, Tolkien agreed to C.S. Lewis’s suggestion to try to write t...
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53. Working on the Group Art Project. from 2023-08-07T14:10
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: land. By default the Middle-earth legendarium is about a place that never was, how...
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52. This Weird Paranoia Paradise Vibe. from 2023-07-03T14:00
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: The Fall of Númenor. Published in fall of 2022, The Fall of Númenor is the most recen...
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51. Looking Kinda Gross. from 2023-06-05T13:00
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: Sir Orfeo. The Orpheus myth is one of the most mysterious ones in the open-ended co...
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50. LaCroix Wormtongue. from 2023-05-01T14:59
Jared, Oriana and Ned appear live in Portland at Passages Bookshop to celebrate fifty episodes of By-the-Bywater and to talk about Oriana’s choice of topic...
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49. Some Kind of Horrible Subpar D&D Fop Who Just Shows Up. from 2023-04-03T13:25:35
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: the Rankin-Bass adaptation of The Return of the King. When Rankin-Bass’s 1977 adap...
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48. It’s Important to Get Really into Jewelry. from 2023-03-13T13:17:32
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Jared’s choice of topic: worldbuilding. Tolkien is so heavily identified with the concept of worldbuildin...
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47. He’s Just A Gross Little Guy! from 2023-02-13T16:30:13
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana’s choice of topic: Gollum. For all the high adventure, heroics great and small and world-shatterin...
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46. Bad Performance Review as an Actual Plot Point. from 2023-01-16T15:06
Jared, Oriana and Ned start the new year with Ned’s choice of topic: the short children’s works Roverandom and Mr. Bliss. Tolkien has been...
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45. This Film Is Choppy. from 2022-12-05T18:46
Jared, Oriana and Ned continue our own epic trilogy with a look at our collective choice of topic: Peter Jackson’s version of The Two Towers Listen
44. (Various Sighs and Groans.) from 2022-11-01T12:43:25
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about the inevitable: the first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Ever since By-the-Bywater ...
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43. Little Broccoli Trees. from 2022-10-03T16:29:32
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: cartography. To say that maps help define Middle-earth is to understate; besides t...
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42. This Isn’t Freaking Redwall! from 2022-09-01T12:00
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Jared’s choice of topic: food in Middle-earth. As Jared says in his introduction, he was reminded of the ...
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41. The Jock Who Joins the Glee Club. from 2022-08-01T15:34:40
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana’s choice of topic: Legolas Greenleaf. Not originally planned as a member of the Fellowship – the h...
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40. Dude, Just Make a Language! from 2022-07-05T16:45
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: Tolkien’s essay “A Secret Vice.” Originally prepared as a lecture called “A Hobby ...
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39. These Aren’t My Questions, I Translated Them. from 2022-06-06T12:08
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Jared’s choice of topic: the Red Book of Westmarch. It’s hinted at at the end of The Lord of the Rings wh...
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37. They’re Just Some Solarized Dudes. from 2022-04-04T12:51
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: Ralph Bakshi’s animated film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. A heavily promot...
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36. Divine Background Radiation. from 2022-03-01T17:01
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Jared’s choice of topic: the Valar. For a legendarium that is clearly monotheistic at base, down to the o...
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35. Do the Hobbits Have H.O.A.s? from 2022-02-07T12:36
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana’s choice of topic: the Shire. The homeland of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and many of Middle-earth’s h...
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34. I Ain’t No Big City Philologist! from 2022-01-18T12:02
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: Tree and Leaf. Published in 1964 in the UK and the following year in the US, Tree ...
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33. Perry and Mippin. from 2021-12-17T14:19
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about our collective choice of topic: Peter Jackson’s version of The Fellowship of the Ring. Released twenty ye...
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32. He's Being Ganged Up On By These Mean Little Jerks! from 2021-11-01T13:00:31
Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana’s choice of topic: Sam Gamgee. For all that Frodo Baggins is the Ringbearer and makes something cl...
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31. There Was So Much Math! from 2021-10-04T10:00
A new Tolkien book? The Nature of Middle-earth.
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30. The Family That Fights Together Stays Alive Together. from 2021-09-07T15:20
The Fall of Gondolin.
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26. The Work of Repair After the Storm. from 2021-05-04T14:00
This month's topic: The Scouring of the Shire.
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25. You Can Have Well-Written Music in a Kid’s Movie! from 2021-04-05T15:11
The 1977 Rankin-Bass version of The Hobbit.
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24. Radagast is Scrappy-Doo! from 2021-03-15T14:00
The Istari, a.k.a the Five Wizards, a.k.a Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, and those other two.
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22. Not Just Because I Like Cooking and Eating! from 2021-01-12T15:20
Tolkien's short story, Smith of Wootton Major.
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21. The Princess Bride But with Santa. from 2020-12-04T21:30
The Father Christmas Letters: Literally a hundred years ago this month, Tolkien began what would be a running series of letters into the early 1940s where he wrote to his children in the guise of F...
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20. She Does It All! from 2020-11-03T02:11
Éowyn, likely the most prominent character in The Lord of the Rings who’s a woman (certainly the most prominent human woman).
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19. A More Robust Line of Succession. from 2020-10-12T17:31:45
Boromir, Faramir, and Denethor.
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16. Turn Off the Dark Lord. from 2020-07-09T15:59
This month: The Lord of the Rings musical. No, really.
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15. A Weird Faerie Sex Game. from 2020-06-12T15:30
This month: Tolkien’s translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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14. But...Faramir! He’s such a good boy! from 2020-05-07T17:25:58
This month’s topic: Toklien adaptations!
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13. That’s Why You Have Scrolls! from 2020-04-10T15:00
This month’s topic: Dennis L. McKiernan’s Silver Call Duology.
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11. I Found that Personally Upsetting. from 2020-02-11T16:50
Dwarves! Can (Tolkien's) dwarves be hot?
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10. The Wheeler-Dealer Dragon! from 2020-01-20T16:00
A look at Tolkien’s short mock-medieval novella, Farmer Giles of Ham.
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9. This Flash, This Sublime Thing. from 2019-12-16T15:30
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: magic. It may seem strange given that one of Tolkien’s most central and indelible characters, Gandalf, is a wizard, but magic plays a more und...
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8. Who Let This Happen? from 2019-11-13T17:00
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: Tom Bombadil.
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7. Crypto-magical in Their Own Way. from 2019-10-22T15:00
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: Ghân-buri-Ghân. Briefly featuring in The Return of the King as a leader of ‘Wild Men’ who offers to help the Rohirrim on their ride to Minas Tir...
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6. “Strider! What’s Up, Man?” from 2019-09-24T17:14:30
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: friendship! Friendship in Middle-earth is a key part of many different characters’ lives, and how it both plays out in stories and simply exis...
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5. This Mysterious Færie Queen. from 2019-08-26T14:28
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: Galadriel. Even if she’s not actually Cate Blanchett in platform heels, she’s tall and blonde, and she seems to have a total drip of a husban...
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4. A Series of Small Wounds. from 2019-07-30T16:30
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: “Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner’s Wife.” An incomplete effort written in the 1960s and edited by Christopher Tolkien for 1980’s Unfinished Ta...
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3. Manwë, You’re Not My Dad! from 2019-06-27T18:17
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: Melian. The wife of one of the three original Elves in the legendarium, she herself is not an elf but a Maia, one of the divine figures in tha...
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2. Tuor Is JUST a Guy! from 2019-05-24T15:00
Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana's choice of topic: death. Not all of it, but a fair amount. Where exactly does free will come in for those in Middle-earth? What lies behind Tolkien's conceptio...
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1. It’s Finally Out in the World! from 2019-04-29T15:00
Jared, Oriana and Ned kick things off with an introduction to the podcast, recent developments in Tolkien news and adaptations, and how they all learned about Tolkien to start with.
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0. Coming soon. from 2019-02-20T20:18
Coming soon: A podcast about 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 inte...
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