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…
Before turning to The Lord of the Rings, Alan and Shawn gain some needed insight with a look at Tolkien’s influential essay “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.” Tolkien’s response to the prevailing theories of his day about the Old English poem...
While we officially began our hiatus this week, we’re not just taking a break — we’re working on getting Season 3 ready to go! We want to let you know what you should be reading to get ready for the start of the next season — a little summer...
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...