In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss Tolkien's 1949 comic short story Farmer Giles of Ham.

Primary sources:

Farmer Giles of Ham (PDF) | Tales From The Perilous Realm (includes FGoH as well as all of Tolkien's other "minor works") | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Secondary sources:

Kocher - Master of Middle-earth (out of print)

Link to the Alan Lee illustration of Farmer Giles and his blunderbuss

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In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss Tolkien's 1939 essay "On Fairy Stories." Part 2 of 2.

Primary sources:

On Fairy Stories (PDF) | The Lord of the Rings | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Secondary sources:

Carpenter - J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

Le Guin - The Dispossessed

For discussion of "Man and the Machine" in Tolkien's work: Hren - Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good

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In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss Tolkien's 1939 essay "On Fairy Stories." Part 1 of 2.

Primary sources:

On Fairy Stories (PDF) | The Lord of the Rings | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Secondary sources:

Carpenter - J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

For discussion of Tolkien and race/culture: Mills - The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto

For discussion of Tolkien's arguments with Christopher Wiseman: Garth - Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth

For discussion of "Man and the Machine" in Tolkien's work: Hren - Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good

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