In this episode, the ladies are back to break down Ian McKellen's delightful blog about his time filming LOTR and recent casting news out of the Cube (Amazon.) Then, for the meat of the episode, the salted pork if you will, we speak with yet an

Episode 8 – The Howard Shore Score Store

Jan 11th, 2020 1h 11m

In this episode, Sarah and Caity have a very special guest on - Caity's sister Anna! Anna is a professional opera singer and bona fide music nerd, so we had her on to discuss Howard Shore's gorgeous score to Peter Jackson's LOTR Trilogy. We al

Episode 7 - The Return Of The Pod

Dec 23rd, 2019 37m 15s

Happy Holidays, everyone! Caity and Sarah are back with a festive lil episode; a gift in the darkest time of the year. In November, we got to see each other in the flesh in the lovely city of Boston, MA, where we plotted the new season of the p

Episode 6 - Amazon Maps and Blake

Mar 13th, 2019 49m 48s

Guess what y'all we got another guest. Its my nephews, Blake and Bryce! We watched Fellowship together and...well, actually mostly Blake - Bryce wasn't that into it so he watched Minecraft videos in the other room. BUT I after the film I asked

Episode 5 - The Hobbit: Into the Hobbitverse

Feb 13th, 2019 44m 26s

The ladies are back with a more relaxed week - free of the fate of the souls of elves and men, we discuss the things that really matter, like why nobody in Laketown wears pants? Thats right, we watched the 1977 Hobbit film, directed by Jules Ba

Episode 4 - Tolkien And Religion

Jan 23rd, 2019 56m 56s

In this episode we debrief the news, then jump right into our interview with friend of the pod James, a PhD student in the Dept for the Study of Religion, future priest in the Anglican Church of Canada aka Episcopal Church of the USA, and huge

Episode 3 - Tolkien And Law

Jan 7th, 2019 1h 2m

The ladies are back from Christmas break discussing breaking news as usual, then move on to this week's homework: "The Laws and Customs Among The Eldar," and its relationship to medieval legal codes. Its a text about what happens to elves after

Episode 2 - Book Collecting

Dec 9th, 2018 57m 57s

Sarah and Caity are back to discuss breaking news, like Viggo's recommended reading, how Tolkien will officially be Hot in 2019, etc. Then we run through our personal JRRT book collections, just in time to remind you which editions to bother yo

Episode 1 - Feanorians Behaving Badly

Nov 20th, 2018 48m 6s

Sarah and Caity introduce themselves and talk about how they got to know Tolkien in the inaugural episode of Hole in the Ground! Read more about Luke Shelton's work here: https://luke-shelton.com/tolkien-experience-project/See the work of a

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