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In this week's episode, I take a look back at the movies and TV shows I watched in Autumn 2024, and rate them from my least favorite to my favorite. TRANSCRIPT Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 230 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is December the Sixth, 2024, and today we are looking at my movie/TV show roundup for Fall 2024. Before we get to that, we'll have an update on my current writing projects and then we will do Question of the Week.   First up, I'm pleased to report that the rough draft of Orc Hoard is done at 78,000 words, so it'll probably end up being about exactly the same length as Half-Orc Paladin, the previous book in the series. I've also written a short story called Commander's Wrath that newsletter subscribers will get a free ebook copy of when Orc Hoard comes out and hopefully we're on track to have that out before Christmas. I'm also 7,000 words into Shield of Deception, which will be the fourth book in The Shield War series and if all goes well, I'm hoping to have that out in January or February. In audiobook news, recording is currently underway for Cloak of Masks and that will probably be out towards the end of January or perhaps February, depending on how long processing takes.   00:01:02 Question of the Week   Question of the Week is designed to inspire enjoyable discussions of interesting topics. This week's question, what do you listen to while working: genre of music, audiobooks, podcast, nothing else so you can concentrate, et cetera. No wrong answers obviously, and we had quite a few answers.   David says: I listen to audiobooks and music. Music ranges from classical to country to pop, bands and soul artists to instrumental. No rap or heavy metal or dance music or I listen to music from YouTube channels. If I have to really focus on what I'm doing, I'll turn it low so it doesn't distract.   Justin says: video game music is my first choice. It can help you grind in real life just like it does in the game. If that isn't working for me, then rock or classical music with movie soundtracks at third.   Brooks says: I tend to gravitate towards hard rock/punk rock. I have to stay adrenalized. Outside work, I'll listen to almost anything.   Michael says: I find I can't listen to words or lyrics without getting distracted by them, so instrumental music is the way to go. Usually video game music too (the Stelara soundtrack is particularly epic), movie scores (Kingdom of Heaven is one of my favorites), or Dungeon Synth, an amazing music genre I only discovered recently.   Barbara says: sometimes I play music while writing, but most of the time I prefer the silence so I can better hear the voices in my head. Of course, I prefer very specific types of music that always end up coming back no matter how much I try to stray.   Jenny says: lots of EDM and techno if words would distract me or my solid nineties pop punk angsty mix. I also have a giant one I called “I heard it in a video game” for background music. John says: When I did/could work, I enjoyed outlaw country music, particularly that from Texas. Put me in a kick butt and take names kind of mood. When you're a plumber who gets paid by the work done, not the hour, that's where one wants to be.   (A different) John says: I only listen to music when I'm working in the kitchen. I'm eclectic. Sometimes classical music, sometimes ‘80s prog rock with Hawaiian music and occasionally jazz tossed in.   Juana says: I like rock and roll from many eras. I put my eclectic music on shuffle. I also listen to movie soundtracks: Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Animal House, et al.   Brandy says: If I'm cooking, I listen to Pandora. There's a pop ‘90s - ‘20s station. I do have a few that are specifically listed, angry or sad, one more angry German metal or Mongolian throat metal, the other more goth and industrial. I read books instead of listening. If I'm proofing, I usually have something on in the background. Today it's Sanctuary Season One.   Morgan says: ADHD means I jump around a lot on what I'm listening to depending on the day, but audiobooks- usually fantasy or horror. Podcasts- Pathfinder actual play podcasts, horror podcasts, and wrestling/gaming news podcasts. Music, whatever artist/album I'm obsessing over at the time, but usually prog rock, metal, or rap.   Matthew says: I always have my iPad for background noise. If I'm particularly invested in getting chapters done, I'll put on something largely audible.   Gary says: audiobooks, podcasts, worship music, Christian hard rock.   Bob says: Retired now, but when I was working I didn't listen to anything-needed to concentrate on what I was doing. When paying bills, I sometimes have some Morse Code on in the background (one of my previous means of paying the bills). On long car trips, it's nice to have some distraction -whatever radio station I can find, preferably one with a story. In truck stops, we used to find some stories on disc that had the actors doing the voice of the characters and some of them were pretty good.   For myself, I almost always listen to music while I'm working and that genre is usually soundtracks and video games, movies, and TV shows (in that order) that I liked, which makes it difficult to discuss music with people, I have to admit. I do listen to podcasts when I'm working outside, so long as I'm not using a power tool that requires earplugs for safe operation (which sadly seems to be most of the time).   00:04:42 Main Topic: Autumn 2024 Movie/TV Review Roundup   Now on to our main topic, the review roundup of the movies and streaming shows I watched in Autumn 2024. I was going to do a combined Autumn/Winter 2024 one, but it was getting a bit too long, so Winter 2024/2025 will be its own post in a few months. I seemed to watch a lot of time travel movies this time around and quite a few with Space Magic. As ever, the grades are totally subjective and based on nothing more than my own thoughts and opinions. Now let's take a look at the movies and streaming shows from least favorite to most favorite.   First up is Escanaba in Da Moonlight, which came out in 2001 and it is a surrealist comedy about hunting traditions set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 42-year-old Reuben Sodi is the only man in his family who has never shot a buck, so when he complains about this to his Native American wife, she casts a spell to help Ruben bag his first buck, which results in a very bizarre nighttime journey/vision quest. This includes UFOs, visitations by nighttime spirits, and a Department of Natural Resources officer having a mental breakdown. This was a funny movie, but it was definitely very weird and even more specific. If you're at all familiar with the hunting culture of Upper American Midwest, you'll get the humor. If you're not familiar with it, this will be like watching a movie from another planet. Overall grade: C.   Next up is Looper, which came out in 2012. I didn't actually like this movie very much, but I respect how well done it was. Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Joe and is a type of assassin called a looper living in the US in 2044. About 30 years after 2044, time travel is invented but immediately outlawed. Since it's difficult to get away with murder in 2074 due to advanced technology, crime syndicates have taken to sending people they want eliminated back in time to 2044 where the loopers immediately execute the target in exchange for a big fat payout. Loopers can live like kings, but there's a price. Eventually the loop is closed and the looper's future self is sent back to be killed by his past self. Failure to comply results in an extremely grisly fate at the hands of the syndicate. Joe, being a hardened killer and drug addict, is fine with all this and even helps turn in a fellow looper who failed to close his own loop. Then Joe's future self arrives. Joe is about to kill Future Joe (played by Bruce Willis), but Future Joe escapes and Present Joe has to hunt down and kill Future Joe if he wants to survive.   In the process, Present Joe stumbles across the farm of a woman named Sarah (played by Emily Blunt) and her young son Sid. Present Joe realizes that future Joe has traveled back to kill the child, Sid, who will be responsible for the death of Future Joe's wife in the future. Despite everything he's done, Present Joe is not okay with this and gears up to help Sarah defend Sid from Future Joe. This movie was on the very dark side of noir filmmaking: no good characters, essentially only various degrees of bad people trying to navigate their way through the maze of time crimes. I did strongly dislike how fundamentally nihilistic the movie was and the addition of telekinesis did seem like kind of a plot crutch. There is also some unnecessary nudity. Rian Johnson is actually an excellent filmmaker. Knives Out and Glass Onion were both very good, but I cannot imagine how someone will watch Looper and think, hey, this guy is a good choice for a Star Wars movie. Overall Grade: B-   Next up is Agatha All Along, which came out in 2024. It was extremely well written and well-acted. You almost have to watch it twice just to admire how well put together the plot was. I wasn't expecting to like Agatha All Along, but it is an excellent example of writing a show with a villain protagonist and actually pulling it off. The show is also a good example of something I've talked about before on the podcast and the blog: characters can be likable, emotionally sympathetic, or both. It's sometimes tricky to write a character who's both, unlikable but emotionally sympathetic. By contrast, Agatha Harkness is an excellent example of a character who's both likable and highly, highly unsympathetic. Agatha All Along is indeed a show with a villain protagonist, but Agatha is charismatic enough to remain likable even though she's unquestionably an absolute monster who deserves every bit of suffering she endures.   Actress Kathryn Hahn deserves major credit for making someone as evil as Agatha so charismatic. Agatha retains just enough of a sliver of sympathy to keep the audience from turning on her, but even when she shows flashes of humanity, beneath that there are even more layers of monster. She also does a very sort of a modern Doctor Who/ Sherlock thing where she talks very fast and puts up a flippant and silly facade, but she's actually calculating things several steps in advance and manipulating everyone around her to her final goal. Anyway, the plot of Agatha All Along is that Agatha finally breaks free from the spell of the Scarlet Witch placed on here at the end of Wandavision. However, Agatha doesn't have any magic left, which is a major problem for her because she has very many enemies who very much want to see her dead as soon as possible, but then a mysterious teenager turns up and asks for Agatha's help. He wants to walk the legendary Witches' Road and it has said that someone who walks the road and survives to the end will receive their heart's desire. Since Agatha doesn't have any other options and she has some major enemies, she agrees. Agatha, the teenager, and the Witches' Road itself all have very dark secrets and their reveal makes for some major drama. As I mentioned, the show was very well written and acted. I suspect that may be the secret for movie or TV success in the 2020s economic climate: good actors, an excellent script, and keep your costs down. Overall grade: B   Our next movie is Field of Dreams, which came out in 1989. An Iowa farmer discovers he's a very specific kind of necromancer, like how sports medicine is a specific field of study. Maybe sports necromancy is a specific subclass for evil wizards or something. All joking aside, the main character is Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin Costner) and he's walking his cornfield one day and he hears a mysterious voice tell him “If you build it, he will come.” Ray builds a baseball field in one of his cornfields and began speaking to the ghost of Shoeless Joe, a popular baseball player who died in 1951. Soon a lot of other ghosts arrive and start playing baseball as well. The mysterious voice starts urging Ray to “ease his pain” and Ray concludes this must means Terrance Mann (played by James Earl Jones), an activist writer from the sixties who dropped out of the public eye and is living in seclusion. So Ray starts on a cross country trip to persuade Mann to come to his baseball field. This movie is really perhaps the ur-example of the Feel-Good Eighties Movies and maybe a Baby Boomer movie. The characters speak with near religious reverence for the ‘60s, baseball is the Great American Pastime, and Ray really wants to heal his relationship with the father he rebelled against back in the ‘60s. The best part of the movie was unquestionably James Earl Jones' character and his performance as he resigns himself to Ray's craziness and then starts to believe in it was pretty great. Overall grade: B Next up is Holiday, which came out in 1938. Holiday is a romantic comedy from the 1930s. Cary Grant plays Johnny Case, who has fallen in love with Julia Seton, the daughter of a wealthy New York banking family. However, his more individualistic outlook soon puts him at odds with Julia's more traditionalist family, though this draws the attention of Julia's elder sister Linda (played by Katharine Hepburn). It felt a bit like watching a play and a little research revealed that it was indeed based on a play from 1928, which may be why the film didn't do so well when it originally came out, though it is regarded as a classic today.   Viewers in the Great Depression era would probably find it difficult to sympathize with a man who wanted to turn down a well-paying job at a bank, not out of moral objections to the bank's business practices, but because he would feel constrained. The Seton family is played as eccentric and somewhat troubled, but not as buffoons or villains as rich people were often portrayed in other 1930s movies. Good performances and worth watching as a classic, though sound technology has improved quite a bit in the last 90 years, so you probably will want to watch it with the captions on. Overall grade: B   Next movie is Twisters, which came out in 2024. This is basically the same movie as Twister from back in 1995, but with some of the plot of Pride and Prejudice bolted on. Kate Carter (played by Daisy Edgar-Jones) is an Oklahoma storm chaser with her boyfriend and best friends. One day, one of their storm chases goes horribly wrong, killing Kate's boyfriend and most of their friends. Five years later, Kate is working for the National Weather Service in New York when her old friend Javi, the other survivor of that storm, asks for her help testing a new radar tracking system. Kate reluctantly agrees and they return to Oklahoma and crosses horns with storm YouTuber Tyler Owens (played by Glenn Powell) who makes videos of his truck shooting fireworks into tornadoes. Naturally, Kate and Tyler immediately misunderstand each other in the same way as in Pride and Prejudice but are forced to work together when it turns out that Javi's company might have ulterior motives. I thought this was a thoroughly enjoyable summer popcorn flick. Given how both Covid and the 2023 writers' strike hit this movie's production like two successive freight trains, it's astonishing it turned out so well. Overall grade: A-   Next up is The Rings of Power Season 2, which came out in 2024. I have the same attitude towards this as I do with Starfield. I really like it. In fact, my Xbox told me I played Starfield for 270 hours in 2024, but I get why some people do not. This show is essentially very elaborate fan fiction. The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, despite the changes from the book, was still recognizably The Lord of the Rings. The Rings of Power is almost entirely its own thing. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this for a couple of reasons and hope it continues. First, it's nice to have an epic fantasy TV series that's not a nihilistic pornographic torture fest like Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon and is more competently executed than Disney's ill-fated Willow Series.   Second, all things must be taken in their context. What do I mean by this? Perhaps a food comparison will illustrate the point. The book the Lord of the Rings is like Kobe beef prepared by the finest chefs in the world, the sort of experience you get maybe once or twice in your life if fortune smiles upon you. The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is like a high-quality supermarket steak grilled in the backyard by someone who's pretty good at it. The Rings of Power is like McDonald's, but there are times when you really want some McDonald's. In fact, I kind of want a Big Mac after saying all of that, but The Rings of Power is really good McDonald's, the kind of McDonald's you have after driving the car for 250 miles without stopping across one of America's flatter and less populous states. The only place to eat for like a hundred miles in any direction is this McDonald's in the same building as a gas station, so you stop and don't expect very much, but it turns out the fries are crispy and salty and the nuggets are just right.   I don't think it's surprising that The Rings of Power has had such a mixed reception. The Venn diagram of “enjoys Lord of the Rings” has some wildly divergent circles to it and that is a testament to the fact that the Lord of the Rings is such a great work of literature that so many people from so many very different ideological identity groups enjoy and identify with the book. Even ideological identity groups that are mortal foes agree on their approval of the Lord the Rings. So naturally each different group has its own strong opinion of what an adaptation should look like.   With that very long-winded introduction out of the way, I liked season two and I thought it was an improvement over Season One, a lot more narrative tension. Season One perhaps spent too much time setting the table and building context, but Season Two works well in making Season One better in hindsight. The Rings of Power version of Galadriel is improved in Season Two because she was one of the few characters in Season One able to throw off Sauron's mental domination and seduction. The highlight of the season was the toxic dynamic between Sauron and Celebrimbor.  Actors Charlie Vickers and Charles Edwards did an amazing job portraying the slow-moving disaster that Sauron and Celebrimbor's collaboration would create, two intellectual equals working together to create something great, but nonetheless, Sauron twists everything to his own ends. Their final scene together was just astonishingly good. The portrayal of Sauron is both very modern and true to Tolkien, a destructive narcissist who actually believes whatever lies he's speaking at any given moment. He really, truly believes he's going to heal Middle Earth, no matter how many people he has to kill to do it. The scenes with Prince Durin, his father, and one of the dwarven rings of power were great as well. It had the same sort of feel to it as an adult child watching with horror as a beloved parent succumbs to a drug addiction. The best new character the show created (in my opinion) is Adar, one of the progenitors of the orcs. Tolkien himself could never really decide on the origin of the orcs and came up with different thoughts throughout his lifetime. When editing The Silmarillion, Christopher Tolkien settled on the corrupted former elves version, which seems to be what his father had been leaning towards anyway. Rings of Power takes that to its logical conclusion. Adar wants his orcish progeny to live free of the dark lords Morgoth and Sauron, which makes sense because in the books, the orcs hated Morgoth and Sauron and only served them out of fear. Indeed, in The Lord of the Rings, Sauron seems to have secret police and informers among the orcs to keep track of their loyalties. Since the show displays how twisted and cruel Sauron really is, it makes sense that Adar is willing to go to any lengths to stop Sauron, no matter how extreme. The orcs are still monsters, including Adar himself, but they're monsters who want to be free of an even greater monster than themselves. If you've read The Silmarillion or The Lord of the Rings, you'll know all the characters' efforts are doomed to failure, especially Adar and Celebrimbor's, which lends an air of inevitable tragedy to everything that happens. I know some people were mad that Tom Bombadil was basically Wizard Yoda, but I thought it worked. Tom Bombadil is so inscrutable of a character that he can really do whatever he wants so long as he's inscrutable. It was also great how composer Bear McCreary wove a variation of Sauron's theme throughout the show. The soundtrack was A+ work in my opinion. Overall, I enjoyed the show and would like it to continue. If you know the difference between Fëanor, Finwë, Finrod, Felagund, Finarfin, Findulias, Fingon, and Fingolfin (without having to look it up), and in fact have everything about them from The Silmarillion memorized, you'll hate this show. But I think it's worth watching. Overall Grade: A-   Next up is Casa Bonita Mi Amor, which came out in 2024. Way back in the 1990s I saw an episode of Frasier where Frasier and his brother Niles decide to buy a restaurant. A series of hilarious cascading disasters result. At the time I decided I never wanted to own a restaurant and every piece of both factual information and fictional media I have consumed since has not changed this decision. Casa Bonita Mi Amor definitely will not challenge that decision. Apparently, Casa Bonita was a beloved theme restaurant in Colorado that went out of business during Covid. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, decided to buy the restaurant themselves and reopen it. They budgeted $3.6 million for the restoration of the building. Costs soon swelled to $40 million and the problems were still only just beginning. This is an excellent and entertaining example of the “rich man buys restaurant, soon finds himself over his head” genre of documentary filmmaking. Overall grade: A   Finally, my two favorite things I saw in Autumn 2024 and the first of them is the movie Frequency, which came out in 2000. It's another variant on a time travel story, but I like this one considerably better than Looper. Frank Sullivan is a firefighter and devoted family man living in New York circa 1969. His son John is a police detective living in the house 30 years later in 1999 with emotional problems because he never got over his father's tragic death in a dangerous fire 30 years earlier in 1969.   When the son of a friend stumbles across his father's old ham radio, John lets the kid goof around with it. Later that night, John starts talking to someone on that radio and to his astonishment realizes he's talking to his father from 30 years ago on the same ham radio. Desperate, John tries to warn Frank about the fire that kills him and it works. Frank survives the fire and instead of dying 1969, instead dies in 1989 from lung cancer due to a pack a day habit. The scene where history changes and John suddenly realizes what has happened was pretty great, but this isn't the ending. We're only 40% of the way through the movie. John successfully managed to put right what once went wrong.   However, in doing so, he accidentally also put wrong what once went right. His mother is a nurse and in the original timeline was on bereavement leave the day after Frank's death. In the new timeline, Frank is okay, so she goes to work and saves a patient who otherwise would've died in medical error and the patient happens to be the deadly serial killer known as the Nightingale. To his horror, John realizes that The Nightingale is now free to continue his murder spree and his new target is John's mother and Frank's wife.   As I've mentioned numerous times before, I'm not really a fan of time travel stories, but this one was quite well done. Interestingly, the plot structure was similar to Avengers Endgame. The Avengers go back in time to steal the Infinity Stones to undo Thanos' Snap, but Past Thanos figures out what's going on and follows the Avengers back to the present and attempts to make things even worse than they already are. John manages to save Frank from the fire, but this means the Nightingale serial killer survives and might create a worse present than the one John already has, so that really adds an altogether excellent element of dramatic tension to the entire movie. As one amusing side note, this movie shared Field of Dream's reverence for baseball as the Great American Pastime and John manages to convince Frank he's telling the truth about their time travel radio by accurately predicting the outcome of baseball games. Overall grade: A Now the second favorite thing I watched in Autumn 2024, The Grand Tour: One for the Road, which came out in 2024. I admit that when I started self-publishing in 2011, I knew absolutely nothing about the contemporary United Kingdom, like I couldn't even told you whether the UK used the Pound or the Euro. When I started getting book royalties from Amazon UK, let's just say I learned about currency conversion rates really fast, but as UK book royalties fluctuated as they do, I started reading the UK news since when there's an election or major news event in the UK, book royalties tend to drop for a few days after the same way they do when something similar happens in the US. Because of that, I saw the news article when Jeremy Clarkson was fired from Top Gear in 2015 for punching out a producer. At the time, there were some seasons of Top Gear on Netflix, so I was curious and started watching and was thoroughly entertained.   When Grand Tour started on Amazon, I started watching that as well and I was also thoroughly entertained, but all good things must come to an end. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May go on one last road trip adventure across Zimbabwe. The usual hijinks ensue for one last time, and it was a fitting end to Top Gear/The Grand Tour. I'll miss the show, but I am grateful for over a decade of entertainment from Top Gear/The Grand Tour and from the various spinoffs like Clarkson's Farm and James May's travel show. Overall grade: A   So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

One by one, Sauron executes the captives. When he sends a wolf to kill Beren, Felagund kills it with his bare hands but is mortally wounded. Luthien and Huan come to Beren's aid. Sauron takes the form of a werewolf and battles Huan. Huan and Luthien gain the upperhand, and spare Sauron on the condition that he leave Tol Sirion. He flees to Taur-nu-Fuin. Beren decides to again take up his quest to take back the Silmarils alone. 01:29 Dan reads pages 174-179 from the Silmarillion, 2nd Edition 21:39 Recap 23:17 Discussion "Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this- the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea- that Lúthien for a time should be." ⁠⁠Watch this Episode on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Send feedback to beforethefellowship@gmail.com Follow us as we follow Tolkien: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TWITTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠DISCORD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Rings of Power comes to Amazon, but nothing compares to the real story JRR Tolkien wrote. Is the Silmarillion his masterpiece? The Silmarillion is a book everyone should read, but it can be intimidating. Go on a journey with us. Witness the creation of Tolkien's universe, meet the villain that's bigger and badder than Sauron, and hear a love story that will leave you in tears. We are not experts, we're just fans like you. And we're having a blast going through this masterpiece of fiction, 15 minutes at a time. Grab a cup of tea or your favorite scotch (or your steering wheel!) and join us every week! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beforethefellowship/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beforethefellowship/support

Beren journeys into Nargothrond and tells Felagund his story. Felagund sees that the Oath of Fëanor is again at work. And the Doom of Mandos survives. Felagund decides to depart with Beren to attempt to steal back the Silmarils. The two of them and several trusted companions disguise themselves as orcs and come to Tol-in-Gaurhoth, Sauron's outpost. He battles Felagund in song, and overcomes him, taking Beren and the others captive. Lúthien leaves Doriath, hoping to save Beren from his distress. She is found by Huan, the wolfhound of Celegorm. The sons of Fëanor trick her into returning to Nargothrond and hold her captive there. She befriends Huan, and he helps her escape. 01:02 Cameron reads pages 168-174 from the Silmarillion, 2nd Edition 21:46 Recap 22:55 Discussion "In the time when Sauron cast Beren into the pit a weight of horror came upon Lúthien's heart; and going to Melian for counsel she learned that Beren lay in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth without hope of rescue. Then Lúthien, perceiving that no help would come from any other on earth, resolved to fly from Doriath and come herself to him; but she sought the aid of Daeron, and he betrayed her purpose because he would not deprive Lúthien of the lights of heaven, lest she fail and fade, and yet would restrain her, he caused a house to be built from which she should not escape." ⁠Watch this Episode on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠ Send feedback to beforethefellowship@gmail.com Follow us as we follow Tolkien: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TWITTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠DISCORD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Rings of Power comes to Amazon, but nothing compares to the real story JRR Tolkien wrote. Is the Silmarillion his masterpiece? The Silmarillion is a book everyone should read, but it can be intimidating. Go on a journey with us. Witness the creation of Tolkien's universe, meet the villain that's bigger and badder than Sauron, and hear a love story that will leave you in tears. We are not experts, we're just fans like you. And we're having a blast going through this masterpiece of fiction, 15 minutes at a time. Grab a cup of tea or your favorite scotch (or your steering wheel!) and join us every week! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beforethefellowship/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beforethefellowship/support

Twelve men make a final stand against the armies of Morgoth in Dorthonion: Barahir, his son Beren, and ten others. Sauron takes Tol Sirion and transforms it into an outpost for Morgoth. Morgoth captures many men and elves and makes them his thralls; but he also releases many back into Beleriand to sew treachery. 01:04 Dan reads pages 154-161 from the Silmarillion, 2nd Edition 24:57 Recap 26:11 Discussion with special guest Andy Norton "Rumour came to Morgoth of these things, and he was unquiet amid his victories; and he desired greatly to learn tidings of Felagund and Turgon. For they had vanished out of knowledge, and yet were not dead; and he feared what they might yet accomplish against him. Of Nargothrond he knew indeed the name, but neither its place nor its strength; and of Gondolin he knew nothing, and the thought of Turgon troubled him the more. Therefore he sent forth ever more spies into Beleriand." Watch this Episode on YouTube⁠⁠⁠ Send feedback to beforethefellowship@gmail.com Follow us as we follow Tolkien: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TWITTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠DISCORD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Rings of Power comes to Amazon, but nothing compares to the real story JRR Tolkien wrote. Is the Silmarillion his masterpiece? The Silmarillion is a book everyone should read, but it can be intimidating. Go on a journey with us. Witness the creation of Tolkien's universe, meet the villain that's bigger and badder than Sauron, and hear a love story that will leave you in tears. We are not experts, we're just fans like you. And we're having a blast going through this masterpiece of fiction, 15 minutes at a time. Grab a cup of tea or your favorite scotch (or your steering wheel!) and join us every week! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beforethefellowship/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beforethefellowship/support

Finrod Felagund meets the first men. He wins them with his beautiful music and his wisdom, and the men take him for their lord. Even to Bëor, chieftain of the men, man's history is opaque. Men too have been sundered, and there exist various groups with distinct languages. The Green Elves do not welcome men, and Thingol forbids them from entering Doriath. Men spread throughout Beleriand, dwelling amongst the Noldor. Bëor joins Felagund in Nargothrond. Some men become discontent with their partnership with the Elves. But one rises to speak. Who is it? Three friends read and react to the greatest story you've never heard — the Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. 00:41 Dan reads pages 140-145 from the Silmarillion, 2nd Edition 21:10 Recap 22:40 Discussion "But there arose one who seemed to all to be Amlach son of Imlach, speaking fell words that shook the hearts of all who heard him: 'All this is but Elvish lore, tales to beguile newcomers that are unwary. The Sea has no shore. There is no Light in the West. You have followed a fool-fire of the Elves to the end of the world! Which of you has seen the least of the Gods? Who has beheld the Dark King in the North?" Watch this Episode on YouTube Send feedback to beforethefellowship@gmail.com Follow us as we follow Tolkien: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TWITTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ DISCORD⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Rings of Power comes to Amazon, but nothing compares to the real story JRR Tolkien wrote. Is the Silmarillion his masterpiece? The Silmarillion is a book everyone should read, but it can be intimidating. Go on a journey with us. Witness the creation of Tolkien's universe, meet the villain that's bigger and badder than Sauron, and hear a love story that will leave you in tears. We are not experts, we're just fans like you. And we're having a blast going through this masterpiece of fiction, 15 minutes at a time. Grab a cup of tea or your favorite scotch (or your steering wheel!) and join us every week! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beforethefellowship/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beforethefellowship/support

Muy buenas amiguitos, hoy volvemos con un cuento de los populares que nos habéis pedido muchos de vosotros: El Gato con Botas. Esperamos que os guste. En el cuento del Rey Arturo se planteo una adivinanza musical, y como muchos habéis adivinado era Regreso al futuro, los que acertaron han sido Linda y Daniela y Carolina Daniel de casi 4 años, David de casi 2, su Mamá Laura que es muy joven ... y su Papá Gerard Alberto el papá, Valentina 6 años y Bosco 1 añito. Valladolid JuanPa e Ivana de León en México Israel y Alexandra Libro llamado el Monstruo Caramelo. Nora y Pelayo de Oviedo Álvaro Felagund (5) y Áurea Tinunviel (2) de Villaviciosa de Odón vera y su papa ricardo, de torrente, Marta de 7 años y su papá José de 43, de Elda en ALICANTE Y además mandamos unos cuantos usuarios David y Ana, papas de Emma 6, Alba 4 y Celia 2 años de Alicante. Malena de 4 años Sara (Catral) María, Sem Melero y a Crispy Bernabé Rebeca Uriel y keyla de Necochea. Buenos aires. Argentina Cris, la mamá de Esther, y Dani Juan y su hija Julia de Jerez Sofía Peralta y Matías Peralta son Mexicanos pero viven en Brasil. Podeis mandarnos saludos o peticiones en los comentarios de ivoox o en nuestro correo electrónico cuentos@agenciarom.es donde podéis mandar también dibujitos de vuestros cuentos favoritos para subirlos a yuoutube o compartirlos en nuestras redes sociales. Manu, miembro de Agencia ROM quiere entretener a los mas enanos de la casa compartiendo esos cuentos que junto con Lara, la verdadera estrella de estos cuentos, darán un aire fresco a esto de contar cuentos. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Se acercan las navidades y con ellas los regalos, y en este cuento Maria, una niña recibe un regalo muy especial: un cascanueces con aspecto de soldado, todo parece lo más normal, pero qué sorpresas nos traerá nuestro amigo. AMIGUITOS MAIL a cuentos@agenciarom.es MANU, HERNAN Y ELENA Desde Badajoz ACIERTAN LOS GOONIES Lisa, Pablo y Álex, de Madrid Laia y Arnau también quieren chocolatinas Maria y Sem y han adivinado antes de las pistas Julia y Abril - Narnia y el Viajero del Alba Alejandra 10 años de Madrid Yunna y Nohan y su papá que es la peli que más veces ha visto Áurea Tinunviel y Álvaro Felagund desde Villaviciosa de Odón en Madrid Victoria de 8 años y Alicia de 44 de El Masnou SALUDITOS Natali desde Argentina Ana de 7 de Malaga - Cuento de Lego Friends haizea - Serie El mandarloria Carla (madre) y Juan de Dios(hijo) Desde Villanueva de Algaidas Málaga Erika (8 años): ¿Vais a leer más libros de Hilda? del 1 al 10, le doy un 10. Nosotros también estamos empezando un podcast, "El viaje de los cuentos" Elsa (5 años): Me ha gustado la historia de Hilda. Ha sido divertido. Quiero que contéis cuentos de gatitos, unicornios que tengan alas y cuernos, perros, fantasmas y cualquier cosa menos cosas de trolls Ana González Sanz NO HAY COSAS DE CHICA Y DE CHICO. El fondo que queréis expresar, se entiende, pero no podemos perpetuar que bailsr es de chicas y jugar al fútbol es de chicos Sara de 7 años - Padre no hay mas que uno 2 Gregorio Sanchez - Sonic el Herizo. Haizea que recomienda Stranger Things, la vida es bella y la película de aquaman Margarita de Rusia Moscu (casi 8 años) - Noche en el museo Joanes de 10 años - Doraemon Patricia Perelli Joan de 8 años y Laia de 5. Somos de Hospitalet de Llobregat - Hotel Transilvania Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Estamos en navidades y queremos compartir con vosotros uno de los cuentos de navidades más conocidos para felicitaros las fiestas. Esperamos que os guste. AUDIO Altair y Samael, desde Uruguay Navia de 6 años Maria Melero DIBUJO Ana y Paula ADIVINAN FAMILIA ADAMS Adrian de 7 años y Nicolás de 13 Ona Luisa con 11 años recien cumplidos su mama luz de 35, mama luz Estela de 35 años Darío desde Noruega Hola! somos Álvaro Felagund y Áurea Tinunviel ADIVINAN PIPI CALZASLARGAS Carlos de 7 años y su mama Patry Ares y su mamá Diana de Asturias - Terminator Tomás de 8, Hugo de 4 y mamá (da igual de cuantos) olga de 10 años y tambén adivinan Star Wars Adrian de 7 años y su papa Eduardo de 43, de Hernani y adivinan Star Wars ADIVINAN STAR WARS Lucas Parra y su mami Romina Decap, les escribimos desde Valdivia, Chile Ricardo De Salvatierra Mexico! Y su mamá Maricela Vera de 8 años y mi padre Ricardo de 37 años de Torrent, ¿Cuándo cumple años Manu? Dario de 6 años y desde Oslo Nora y Pelayo de Oviedo Tristán y tengo 7 años y su mama Alicia, nos piden un cuento de El Ascenso de Sky Walker. Irene y Marta de Málaga - Se armó el Belén SALUDITOS Ricardo de Mexico Lucas Parra, tengo 5 años desde Valdivia, Chile Hegoa de Madrid Clara de 10 años de Madrid

Hola amiguitos. Lara cada vez es mas mayor y hoy queremos hacer una prueba: contar a modo de cuento un pedacito de historia. ¿Y qué mejor para empezar que contar cómo el hombre llegó a la luna? Esperamos que os guste, animaos a dejar comentarios con vuestras impresiones. DESPEDIDA RECOMENDACIÓN Podcast RADIOSKYLAB: http://radioskylab.es/ DIBUJOS: Roi que nos ha dibujado en un Aeropuero apunto de envarcarnos en una nueva aventura. Ángela que nos ha hecho un dibujo chulísimo de Hermione, porque le encanta mucho harry potter. AUDIOS: Violeta de 7 años de Barcelona y su papa Juanete junto a toda su familia que está recorriendo américa. Amelie Nora ACERTANTES jireh tengo 8 años y los cumpliré en diciembre Irene 8 y su papá José 36 Olga Maria y Sem Melero esta vez no saben cual es Hola somos Ana y Paula González. Nos hizo muchísima ilusion que pusierais nuestro "dibujo". Elena Marina Luisa de 10 años y mi mamá de 35 de Colombia Carlos Arquero de 4 años RECIEN CUMPLIDOS y sus papás, Carmen y Carlos, de Valencia. El papá decía que era encuentros en la tercera fase…. Pero casi que no. SALUDITOS Adivinó oveja Shaun Adam de Tarragona Marta dice que es la oveja Shaun. Adivinan granjagueddon o algo así: Noa, Marta e Israel Adivina Oveja Shaun Luisa de 10 años de Colombia Andrey Zurita de Chile con su mami holaaaaaa soyyyyyyy elllllll cejasssssss Diego Llevaba muchos años sin escucharos, la nena se ha hecho muy mayor jajaja como los mios !! Claea de 10 años de madrid no de 7,8,9,6 yo solo soy de 10 años de Madrid Hola soy elena nerea y mi gemela elena tiara que tenemos un canal de Youtube que se llama elena tiara y elena nerea Familia Eho. Papa Eddie, Mamá Elena, y los pequeños Yago de 7 años e Izan de 4 años. "Lara eres genial, no cambies!!!!" Clara de 7 años, es el cumpleaños de mi abuela Sonia que cumple 100 años Leo y pilar. nos gustaría escuchar " cuentos de navidad" de charles dickens, si podéis. Jesús de 7 años y María de 39 añazos de Cáceres. Creemos que se trata de Postman Pat. Saluditos! Álvaro Felagund y Áurea Tinunviel de 7 y 5 años. Creemos que es el Mundo de Plastilina. Un besazo para Lara y su papá cfcreativa Me ha gustado tanto el cuento de Indiana Jones en la Antártida... digo Antlartica.. Atlántida! que venga, lo he escuchado 3 veces!

Hola amiguitos, nos habéis pedido varias veces cuentos de dinosaurios y vamos a aprovechar una película que acabamos de ver y que creemos que es un gran recuerdo para los padres y una genial peli para ver y disfrutar con nuestros enanos. Esperamos que os guste ***************************************************************************************** HAN ACERTADO Henar Guillermo de 6 y Olivia de 3 años Carla la mamá de Ámbar 5 añitos, somos del Perú - Blancanieves Álvaro Felagund y Áurea Tinunviel de Villaviciosa de Odón Zoe de 9 años - Wonder Woman Vera de 7 y su papa de 36 de valencia Esther, Dani y Cris Alba (6) y Ana (42) de Nigrán Victoria y ya tengo 6 años, y Alicia de 42 María ha adivinado antes de la pista (Sem) Valeria y Jesús de Soria, Adriana y Guillermo de Sevilla desde Campillo de Altobuey- Cuenca Somos Daniela y su mamá Fabiola Daniela cuenta unos 133 cuentos. Yo (Linda) creo que serán unos 70 Asier y su hermano Ibai - LadyBug Marta Villar de 9 años q le gusta mucho Harry Potter Elena Marina 128 audios Jan Creus 8 años SALUDITOS Elena Marina de Linares Iván leyendo el Hobbit Carlota nos escucha desde que tenía 2 añitos y ya tiene 4, y mis papás son Helena y Jota Daniel 8 años y Elsa de 4 años Elena y Mayte 97 Cuentos Ricardo de Salvatierra en Mexico - Parque Jurasico

For out third installment in our 3-part-series 'Princes of the Noldor', by popular demand, we talk about Finrod Felagund! Tune in as discuss the life of the most noble of the Noldor!

Muy buenas amiguitos. Hoy aprovechamos para contar un cuento un poco distinto y abrir un nuevo abanico de posibilidades como son las leyendas, y qué mejor forma de empezar que con una leyenda típica de segovia como es La Leyenda del Acueducto de Segovia. Esperamos que os guste. DIBUJOS RECIBIDOS RAUL MUÑOZ VIÑUELA de 5 añitos de Gijon nos ha mandado un dibujo de STAR WARS JULIA DE VALENCIA otro dibujo de Manu y Lara SALUDITOS ESPECIALES ESPECIALES: Aitana y su papá Sergio Viviana Gómez de Colombia CANCION ADIVINANZA: PATRULLA CANINA Fernando de 3 años y su papá Rodrigo, mandan muchos saludos desde La Estadía en México D.F Lucía Galván tengo 9 años vivo en Valladolid Diana (la mamá), Ares de 4 años y Orión de 3 meses > Pesadilla antes de Navidad Nora y Pelayo de Oviedo lo tienen clarísimo!!!!! Oliver y Valentina de 5 añitos de Elda marina moreno de 6 años de Alcácer estoy malita y quiero que me mandéis un saludito Nico, de 7, de Málaga (el del robot) dice que es la canción de la Patrulla Canina. Mandad un saludo para Ana de 4 que no se ponga celosa Daniela, Carolina y Linda de Zamora Noa de 5 años de Benidorm y su mamá Gema Maya Mile y Gon aquí en Inglaterra la llamamos Paw Patrol Villaviciosa de Odón. Somos Áurea Tinunviel y Álvaro Felagund de 3 y 5 año Sem Bravo por el cuento...es mi Princesa Disney favorita!!! (la de María, no tanto) María dice que la canción adivinanza es de la Patrulla Canina Esther, Dani y Cris Joanes de 7 y José Miguel de 10 de Navarra Manuel y Andrés, de Pontevedra Paula (9) y he pensado que la canción es de la Patrulla canina. saluditos de mi padre Rafotooo (43) y mi hermanita Vega(6) que la pobre se ha quedado dormida antes de la adivinanza. Matilda(5) Leonardo de 7 años y Emiliano de 4 años, su papa Filiberto de Monterrey en México > Patrulla Canina. Adri de Galapagar Noa (15 meses) y Eva de 7 años de Getafe Aitor y Eva de Bilbao Carmen Ponce (6) de Albacete-Murcia Sebastián, Paulina y Anuar - Edmonton Canada SALUDITOS Amelie y yo hace meses Marta y Patricia que adivinaron el de la patrulla canina, nos mandaron un mail y se me olvidó por completo. Claudia Rubio y es la canción de la pantera rosa Lucía Galván tengo 9 años y vivo en Valladolid que también adivinó la pantera rosa Asier de 5 años, Ibai de 22 meses y sus padres, Nando y Noelia. La canción es la de la Pantera Rosa La Pantera Rosa. Muy bien interpretado. En el cuento de la Princesa Prometida salieron en los Saluditos,porque descubrimos la adivinanza, mi hija María y su bisabuela Sofía de 102 años. Le hizo mucha ilusión escucharlo a la bisa, quien falleció a los pocos días. Quería daros las gracias. Laura Jácel de 8 años y yo la mamá Elpidia. Vivimos en México Santiago Zepeda de El Salvador Jorge (Demonio de Tasmania) de 1 año, Paula 5 años y su papá José y aunque no es del club a la mama Gloria Alcuéscar (Cáceres) Gabriela Victoria Morales Chávez de 4 añitos de la Ciudad de México

Muy buenas amiguitos, hoy volvemos con un cuento de los populares que nos habéis pedido muchos de vosotros: El Gato con Botas. Esperamos que os guste. En el último cuento (Totoro) os propusimos un juego, a ver si adivinabais de qué película era la música que tarareó Lara, era de Del Revés, y lo adivinaron: En el cuento del Rey Arturo se planteo una adivinanza musical, y como muchos habéis adivinado era Regreso al futuro, los que acertaron han sido Linda y Daniela y Carolina Daniel de casi 4 años, David de casi 2, su Mamá Laura que es muy joven ... y su Papá Gerard Alberto el papá, Valentina 6 años y Bosco 1 añito. Valladolid JuanPa e Ivana de León en México Israel y Alexandra Libro llamado el Monstruo Caramelo. Nora y Pelayo de Oviedo Álvaro Felagund (5) y Áurea Tinunviel (2) de Villaviciosa de Odón vera y su papa ricardo, de torrente, Marta de 7 años y su papá José de 43, de Elda en ALICANTE Y además mandamos unos cuantos usuarios David y Ana, papas de Emma 6, Alba 4 y Celia 2 años de Alicante. Malena de 4 años Sara (Catral) María, Sem Melero y a Crispy Bernabé Rebeca Uriel y keyla de Necochea. Buenos aires. Argentina Cris, la mamá de Esther, y Dani Juan y su hija Julia de Jerez Sofía Peralta y Matías Peralta son Mexicanos pero viven en Brasil. Podeis mandarnos saludos o peticiones en los comentarios de ivoox o en nuestro correo electrónico cuentos@agenciarom.es donde podéis mandar también dibujitos de vuestros cuentos favoritos para subirlos a yuoutube o compartirlos en nuestras redes sociales. Manu, miembro de Agencia ROM quiere entretener a los mas enanos de la casa compartiendo esos cuentos que junto con Lara, la verdadera estrella de estos cuentos, darán un aire fresco a esto de contar cuentos.

Concerning "Of the Coming of Men Into the West", Chapter 17 of The Silmarillion...   Hey there fellow travelers! On this episode, we continue our discussion of The Silmarillion with Chapter 17, Of the Coming of Men into the West, wherein we learn of the origin of the Edain, also known as Men. Chapter 17 is the last bit of stage-setting before the pace really begins to pick up again. Enjoy the show! Poems 1:30 The 3 Houses of Men 14:00 Finrod’s Music 18:30 The Darkness That Lies Behind 21:00 Green-Elves & Men = Unfriends 26:45 Finrod & Bëor 28:30 Edain/Atani/Men 29:45 Thingol & Melian’s Prophecy 32:00 Bereg’s Rebellion 34:15 Haleth and the Haladin 38:45 Beör’s Death 42:30 Come get lost in Middle-earth and explore the history and background of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The Tolkien Road is the podcast of the website TrueMyths.org. You can learn more by following @tolkienwisdom on Twitter and following TrueMyths.org on Facebook at Facebook.com/TrueMyths.