There And Back Again 72: Well, I’m Back

Update: 2025-07-16

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In this week’s session, we fight for the soul of the Shire and find a new peace in the last three chapters of The Lord of the Rings.

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Thank you so much for listening! For the slides accompanying this podcast, click here. Please join me in my new podcasts: Stars and Swords, and Shire Reckoning!

Show notes:

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion (Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull)

LOTRProject

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (edited by Humphrey Carpenter)

Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (Matthew T. Dickerson and Jonathan Evans)

The Last Star In Hollywood

“Map of the US and Middle Earth superimposed showing the real size of Bilbo’s and Frodo and Sam’s journey.” (Reddit)

There And Back Again is a Point North Media production by Alastair Stephens, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.

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