Alan and Shawn welcome Verlyn Flieger back to the Prancing Pony Podcast to finish out our fourth season! We catch up with her on Beowulf, free will, the mistakes of Túrin, and her new book Arthurian Voices…
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...
Oh, what sad times are these when Tolkien podcasters can make it through an entire season without a single reference to shrubberies? For our final episode on The Hobbit, we return with a retrospective: one that sounds nice (of course!) and not too...
In the first episode, get to know your hosts, Alan and Shawn, and learn about why we started the Prancing Pony Podcast. We also discuss favorite moments from the life of J. R. R. Tolkien as told in Humphrey Carpenter's biography, and introduce...