Alan and Shawn are honored to welcome Verlyn Flieger, author of There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale, to The Prancing Pony Podcast! We discuss her new book, her work co-editing the annual journal Tolkien Studies, and of course, her classic study of the legendarium, Splintered Light. We also learn about the best way to read Tolkien’s letters, drool over reports from the recent Bodleian Library exhibition, and applaud the way Dr. Flieger turns the tables and interviews us for a change.
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Hello, in this episode, Verlyn Flieger mentions a podcast recording of her talk at the Bodleian Library that had yet to be released. In case its news, a Bodleian recording of hers was released on Jan 25, 2019 at the following link: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/mythopoeia-myth-creation-and-middle-earth.
Thank you for sharing that, Elliot. I’ll enjoy listening to it, and I know many of our listeners will as well.