This week, the paradoxical comforts of the Shire. How did it come into being, and how did the hobbits settle there? How does if embody and reject the vision of a nostalgic, nationalist England? And how long is the High Hay anyway?
Show Notes
Show Notes
- The Pyrates (George MacDonald Fraser)
- The Return of the Shadow (The History of Middle-earth)
- Shire Reckoning
- "The Gods Return to Earth: C.S. Lewis’ Review of The Fellowship of the Ring"
- "Tolkien Tuesday: Tolkien, Landscape Archaeology, and the First Age of Middle-earth"
- “The Lady’s Gift! The Star-glass! A Light to You in Dark Places, She Said it Was To Be.”
- The Lord of the Rings Deluxe Illustrated Box Set