Alan and Shawn are delighted to welcome Michael Drout to The Prancing Pony Podcast! As co-founder and co-editor of the journal Tolkien Studies and multiple books on the Professor, Drout is one of the most prolific Tolkien scholars in the field today. We talk to him about his personal discovery of Tolkien, the future of Tolkien studies and fandom, and Beowulf. Plus, we discuss the very highest quality of The Lord of the Rings Online players, and how to write a new Old English poem more well-known than some of the originals.
Follow Michael Drout online at his website, http://michaeldrout.com, or on Twitter (@MikeDrout)
For information about the latest issue of Tolkien Studies, see West Virginia University Press here: http://wvupressonline.com/journals/tolkien_studies
To see the lecture “How To Read J.R.R. Tolkien” given by Michael Drout at Carnegie Mellon University, see here: https://youtu.be/lXAvF9p8nmM
Recommended Reading:
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (HarperCollins, paperback)
Great interview – thanks!
One comment: I think the Youtube link for Prof. Drout’s Tolkien lecture is wrong (I got a Monty Python sketch). I’ve searched, and the correct one seems to be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXAvF9p8nmM
Best wishes,
Oliver Stegen
Well, that’s embarrassing. I must have mistakenly swapped that link with the one we recently posted for the larch bit. Thanks for notifying us, Oliver. That is the correct link in your comment, and the post above has been corrected. Sorry about that!