Mythgard's Exploring The Lord of the Rings
Join The Tolkien Professor, Dr. Corey Olsen, on a sentence-by-sentence journey through the text of Tolkien's epic fairy story, and explore Middle-earth through the magical game-world of Lord of the Rings Online.
Episodes
April 27, 2025 • 113 mins
Tonight we look at Tolkien's Book of Mazarbul illustrations, putting ourselves in Gandalf's shoes and puzzling out the text, with the help of special guest Chad Bornholdt!
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April 27, 2025 • 135 mins
Tonight, Corey continues to learn the Cirth with Chad Bornholdt's help, and we read more of what Gandalf did not.
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April 10, 2025 • 115 mins
Happy Gondorian New Year! In our second session on the Book of Mazarbul, we will get to the high water mark of Balin's expedition.
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April 10, 2025 • 115 mins
Tonight we discuss the end of the Book of Mazarbul, and Balin's end.
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April 10, 2025 • 123 mins
Tonight we begin our discussion of Gandalf's reading from the Book of Mazarbul!
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March 26, 2025 • 121 mins
Tonight we discuss (at least!) our first slide of the new chapter, examining the Chamber of Mazarbul.
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March 26, 2025 • 105 mins
It's time to start a new chapter, and one we've been excitedly waiting for: The Bridge of Khazad-dum. Let's start by learning about runes!
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February 25, 2025 • 115 mins
Corey returns just in time for the introduction of central character in the LOTR!
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February 25, 2025 • 99 mins
Tonight, let's check in with Boromir and see what his current assessment of Gandalf's leadership is.
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February 25, 2025 • 112 mins
Join Corey as he joins the Company is seeing what there is to be seen in the early light of the new day in Moria.
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February 25, 2025 • 98 mins
We discuss Gimli and Frodo's very different reactions to Gandalf's download of mithril lore.
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December 31, 2024 • 103 mins
Tonight Corey looks at what Gandalf emphasizes about Moria-silver.
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December 17, 2024 • 107 mins
The poetic experiment continues as we examine the last monochrome stanzas of Gimli's poem.
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December 17, 2024 • 108 mins
Corey returns to the world of prose to discuss Sam's response to Gimli's song and the overall shift towards practical application.
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December 17, 2024 • 107 mins
What does Tolkien tell us about mithril? Tonight we discuss the passage that contains about 80-90% of what we know.
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November 17, 2024 • 124 mins
Tonight we continue with our initial pass through Gimli's Khazad-dum poem!
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November 17, 2024 • 112 mins
Tonight we return to Gimli's poem one more time, finding the third poetic dimension in the middle stanzas.
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November 17, 2024 • 111 mins
Corey discusses the ending of Gimli’s song and then presents his observations on what makes this poem not at all boring.
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October 30, 2024 • 120 mins
We are back and ready for some poetry. Are you prepared for one of our three biggest glimpses into dwarfdom in all of the LOTR?
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October 14, 2024 • 105 mins
Tonight, we hear from Gimli at last, and get a glimpse of his experience. And we prepare for the poem!
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