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Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema's greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you've got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 99 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys are joined by AwardsWatch contributor Cody Dericks to discuss the next film in their Peter Jackson series, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). After making The Frighteners, Peter Jackson set out to make an epic, and had the blessing of the Hollywood studio system to do so. He spent a lot of his time trying to come up with an idea to remake the monster movie classic King Kong (more on that in a couple of weeks). After a failed attempt to get that project off the ground, he set off to make an action adventure film in the vein of The Lord of the Rings, and after a first draft, his partner Fran Walsh told Jackson that a lot of what he was writing basically was J.R.R Tolkien's trilogy of books. From that moment, Jackson decided to make his version of a collection of novels that were deemed unadaptable for the big screen, and in doing so, created one of the single most influential trilogies in cinema history. Ryan, Jay, and Cody break down their thoughts on the first entry into The Lord of the Rings saga, the behind the scenes drama leading up to making the film, re-casting what ifs, the earnestness of these films, the building and breaking apart of the fellowship, who is the character they relate to the most, and we finally find out after fifteen years of being agnostic to this trilogy if Jay now likes Lord of the Rings. You'll have to listen to find out. You can listen to the Director Watch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music, YouTube and more. This podcast runs 2h30m. The guys will be back next week to continue their series on the films of Peter Jackson with a review of his next film, The Lord of the Rings: The Tw Towers. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let's get into it. Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Tolkien Reading Day is held on March 25th each year. Libraries here in Connecticut and across the globe mark this day by paying homage to the works of J.R.R Tolkien. They host “second breakfasts,” offer presentations on Hobbit lore, and encourage visitors to read their favorite passages aloud. This hour, we explore why Tolkien's characters and fantastical world building continues to resonate with readers today. GUESTS: David Thorn Wenzel, Illustrator and children's book artist best known for his graphic novel adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit Michael Whelan: Illustrator specializing in fantasy and science fiction, winner of 15 Hugo Awards Kate Noonan: Senior Reference Librarian, South Windsor Public Library Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Was J.R.R Tolkien simply a genius linguist or is something else behind the epic Lord of the Rings series of Books? Are films purely neutral entertainment or are they used by dark forces to propagate their messages? Was the Inklings club just a gathering of writers? Popular author Gary Wayne returns for another fascinating Episode.Links⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠email:beyondtheparadigm@yahoo.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Beyond the Paradigm - YouTubeinstagram.com/paradigm1979⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠twitter.com/paradigm_79⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(1) Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support The Show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/BeyondTheParadigm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠buymeacoffee.com/beyondthep5⁠⁠⁠⁠Book LinksGenesis 6 Conspiracy Part 1 https://amzn.to/40Nrcq8Genesis 6 Conspiracy Part 2 https://amzn.to/3CE5cpKGuest LinksThe Genesis 6 Conspiracy

In this episode Charbel sits down with Bill Donaghy from the Theology of the Body Institute. Bill discusses his life, family, faith, devotion to Our Lady and the inspiration of John Paul II. In this telling interview, Charbel and Bill discuss Theology of the Body, Natural Family Planning, C.S Lewis, J.R Tolkien and more. Philosophy Of Tolkien USA LINK: https://parousiausa.com/the-philosophy-of-tolkien-the-worldview-behind-the-lord-of-the-rings-peter-kreeft-paperback/ Philosophy Of Tolkien AUSTRALIA LINK: https://store.parousiamedia.com/the-philosophy-of-tolkien-the-worldview-behind-the-lord-of-the-rings-peter-j-kreeft-ignatius-press-paperback/ God Is Beauty AUSTRALIA LINK: https://store.parousiamedia.com/god-is-beauty-a-retreat-on-the-gospel-and-art-karol-wojtila-pope-john-paul-ii-paperback/ Join the Parousia mailing list at https://www.parousiamedia.com/mailing-list/ Parousia is committed to proclaiming the fullness of truth! If you wish to help us in our mission with a donation please visit our website here https://www.parousiamedia.com/donate/ to learn ways that you can contribute.

Tom and Dan dive into The Sunless Citadel, a classic starter dungeon for low level characters. Also they detour into some literary commentary on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien, as all good DnDers must do, from time to time. Remember to like, share and subscribe, and connect with us: teachersinthedungeon on Instagram and Facebook, @dungeonteachers on X, and teachersinthedungeon@gmail.com

En 2001 un film s'apprête à changer l'industrie cinématographique, et avec elle, la culture populaire de la décennie à venir. Mais avant la découverte de La Communauté de l'anneau, adaptation titanesque de l'oeuvre réputée inadaptable de J.R.R Tolkien, il y eu en Nouvelle-Zélande une aventure certes moins connue, mais tout aussi galvanisante. Dans ce premier épisode consacré aux films de Peter Jackson en dehors du Seigneur des anneaux nous reviendrons donc sur les premiers films de sa carrière. De Bad Taste à Forgotten Silver  en passant par Créatures célestes, ils constituent les étapes d'une épopée cinématographique passionnante qu'il nous semble important de (re) découvrir. Pour partir dans une telle aventure, il nous fallait l'expertise d'un guide. Mille mercis à Jérémie Grima, membre émérite de la Zone 52 pour sa passion et sa gentillesse. Préparez vos gourdes et vos meilleurs souliers, nous partons pour la première partie d'une aventure podcastique inattendue !    Timecodes :  00:03:52  Speak no evil (2022) 00:11:40  Warhammer 40K : Space Marine 2 00:27:10 Deep Rock Galactic Survivor:Survivor 00:41:10 Bad Taste 01:02:53 Meet the Feebles 01:14:52 Braindead 01:38:24 Créatures célestes 02:01:24 Forgotten Silver          

The first thing you'll see in my home when you enter is a framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Below the image of America's 16th president, a man who arguably refounded the United States and became one of its most consequential figures, is a list of his numerous failures. The guy posted a lot of L's. This list of Lincoln failures is pretty well known, so you might have seen this before. Here is the text I have framed in our doorway. “Lincoln”Lost job in 1832.Defeated for state legislature in 1832.Failed in business in 1833.Elected to state legislature in 1834.Sweetheart died in 1835.Had a nervous breakdown in 1836.Defeated for Speaker in 1838.Defeated for nomination for Congress in 1843.Elected to Congress in 1846.Lost renomination in 1848.Rejected for land officer in 1849.Defeated for U.S. Senate in 1854.Defeated for nomination for Vice President in 1856.Again defeated for U.S. Senate in 1858.Elected President in 1860.Geeky Stoics is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This piece always catches my eye, particularly in the morning when I'm having coffee and thinking about the day ahead. Today is no exception. Last night I lost my race for City Council in Manassas, Virginia. It was my first foray into politics, and I'd never run in this city before for anything. I've lived here about 10 years, whereas all my opponents pretty much grew up here or have lifelong roots in town. That counts for something when a small town of 45,000 people vote. In reality, only about 8,000 people vote in elections around here. It's kind of crazy. I'm not launching into some narrative in which I'm a Lincoln figure in the making. It's just that I've had a lot of strikeouts at the plate lately. Let me run through them. My career has been a pretty wild ride since 2015 when I started a semi-popular podcast called Beltway Banthas. It opened the door to me doing something almost no one gets to do, which is go on TV and talk politics on some of the biggest news networks in the country. From 2016 to 2022 I had a really active and exciting run as a political commentator. All of this led to me securing a book deal with Hachette Publishing for How The Force Can Fix The World, another rare professional notch on the belt that not many people get to experience. It's special, and that's not lost on me. Especially when there are so many better writers out there. At the same time, I was selected to host a political talk show for an international news network. Here's the thing though. By objective measures, in every single one of these ventures, I “failed”. As a podcaster, Banthas never generated revenues. As a commentator, I secured no contributor contracts or invites to the “major leagues” for top shows in the world in the mainstream or alternative media. My debut book had a niche audience but was not a best seller on any list of “importance” in the publishing world. My talk show was canceled after one year. We couldn't find an audience for it. After that, I entered a professional wilderness for almost 2 years. Luckily, a friend offered me a job right when I needed it, but it was a job I ended up being very bad at. As I started looking around for a better fit and interviewing, I felt untouchable. I couldn't secure a job after all of this. No one wanted to hire me. I landed on my feet in the end at a really great nonprofit, one where I still work. That was by virtue of managing my relationships and having a good reputation for hard work and honesty. But it was a really hard road. Then this year I finally ran for office, a dream of mine since I was a kid, and I lost. Not only did I lose, I was the lowest vote-getter in the city. Deep sigh. NEW VIDEO FROM GEEKY STOICSWhat I told my wife last night when the results came in was that it's not that I feel like some kind of loser who never has any wins. No, it's not that. Because in many ways I keep making it to Championship matches (big opportunities), and then striking out when I step up to the plate. I think that people go on these journeys in life where they think they've found “the thing” they were called to do and it turns out to have been a mirage. I imagine it like a long hallway of locked doors. You have the keyring in your hand and a hundred keys on it. You fumble around to find the right key for the right door, you open it, and then it's just a wall behind the door. That wasn't the door for you. I think I'm just good at feeling around for certain keys to certain doors.Part of this thought reminds me of one of Geeky Stoics' central pillars, the life and ideas of C.S. Lewis. As you know, Lewis is famous, immortal really, because of The Chronicles of Narnia. The first book was published in 1950, at a time when Lewis was almost completely drained of his self-confidence and hope. Lewis had become an international superstar in the 1940s for his wartime radio broadcasts on the BBC and Mere Christianity, his most cherished nonfiction work making the case for Christian morality. Then there was The Screwtape Letters, making him even more of a star and the voice of Christian apologetics. Yet, when he was invited onto the BBC in 1950 to discuss faith, Lewis declined saying, “Like the old fangless snake in The Jungle Book, I've largely lost my dialectal power.”Lewis had become a symbol of Christian thought and argumentation but had “failed” to convert his own friends and family. In fact, the woman in his life (Mrs. Moore) only grew more hostile to faith over time. He felt powerless in his own sphere of influence. Just a year before declining the BBC, Lewis participated in a Socratic debate at Oxford against a young woman named Elizabeth Anscombe about “naturalism” and Christian belief. Anscombe was a Catholic and fan of Lewis, but she disagreed strongly with some of Lewis' cherished conclusions in his book, Miracles. Long story short, Anscombe defeated and embarrassed Lewis in his own dojo during that debate in 1948. In front of his colleagues, fans, critics, and students, Lewis was dismantled. But it wasn't just Lewis, it was the premise of one of his great books.Like a good man with an open mind, Lewis knew he lost and he knew then that Miracles was deeply flawed. For a man like Lewis, it's the kind of thing that keeps you up at night. He entered a dark period at this time. Friends of his were dying of age or illness. His ideas were being beaten back by younger thinkers. His famous friendship with J.R.R Tolkien was in disrepair. He'd lost his zeal to write. He was still quite financially strapped, for many reasons. And because Oxford was as hostile to faith as it still is today, Lewis had a target on his back at his university. He was passed over again and again for new roles at Oxford. Disparaged by department heads and treated like the plague. Academics at elite universities tend to hate their colleagues who have mainstream success, which Mere Christianity was by a large margin. Lewis was in the shadowlands of his career. Then he came across a door in that long hallway, opened it, and crossed a threshold into something new. In 1950, C.S. Lewis published The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The rest is history. In his lowest moment, C.S. Lewis' purpose was revealed to him. All the work that he had poured into Christian argumentation in his nonfiction books became the basis for his fictional work in Narnia. The ideas he tested on atheists and believers for 15 years became the story of Wardrobe, Aslan, and White Witch. Reading over the lives of Lincoln and Lewis, you get the sense that these men considered giving up. Lewis drank too much and was pretty depressed for a period of time. Lincoln's depression is well-known. But they held on. Their purpose was revealed to them. One of C.S. Lewis' central arguments about God is that if you set out to find Him, it will always be He who finds you first. The hunter becomes the hunted. But it doesn't happen unless you're open, aware, and searching. God, I'm listening. Geeky Stoics is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Hey Geeky Stoics, right now I'm reading The Creative Act by music producer Rick Rubin. This book is lovely. Two-page chapters that are all about artistic expression and connecting with your ability to create. It's like Meditations, really. The Creative Act is a book about the idea I described above. Being open, aware, and searching. If you're distracted, numb, drunk, overstimulated, or fearful, you won't hear your call when it comes. That call may be a painting, a business idea, a song, or a message for a political campaign. Check it out! You won't regret it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.geekystoics.com/subscribe

A warm welcome to the full story of Halloween in The Shire. Tonight you can enjoy a combined version of two stories ‘Autumn with Samwise' and ‘Pumpkin Festival in The Shire' to create a full autumnal experience in Middle Earth. If you would like to enjoy ad-free content, exclusive sleep stories, live readings and more, then you can join our wonderful Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/sleepycatmeditations Thumbnail Image created using AI tools (Canva Magic Write) Music by Liborio Conti (Blossom, Light and Balanced, The Blessing, Nature's Call) Music by Enlightened Audio (Meadow's Wake, Divine Love) Long Road Ahead B by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100588 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Note: There is no intentional copyright infringement in this meditation. This is an original sleep story, based loosely on the fictional world of The Lord of the Rings created by J.R.R Tolkien.

¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2024! “Tres anillos para los Reyes Elfos bajo el cielo. Siete para los Señores Enanos en casas de piedra. Nueve para los Hombres Mortales condenados a morir. Uno para el Señor Oscuro, sobre el trono oscuro En la Tierra de Mordor donde se extienden las Sombras. Un Anillo para gobernarlos a todos. Un Anillo para encontrarlos, un Anillo para atraerlos a todos y atarlos en las tinieblas en la Tierra de Mordor donde se extienden las Sombras. Verso del Anillo Esta noche en nuestro podcast de ivoox tenemos el privilegio de estrenar un nuevo relato en homenaje al universo de J.R.R Tolkien. Ulairi: Espectro del Anillo, una historia de Javier Gil, con la ilustración de portada de Fran Fernández y la voz invitada de Rey Insomne. ¿Por qué no hemos de envidiar a los Valar o aun al último de los Inmortales? Pues a nosotros se nos exige una confianza ciega y una esperanza sin garantía, y no sabemos lo que nos aguarda en el próximo instante. Pero también nosotros amamos la Tierra y no quisiéramos perderla” Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Cozy autumn books are on the docket today! Joy and Larisa share the magical worlds of two of their favorite fall books. Larisa first brings us to the medieval town, Thune, where we meet Viv, an orc who wants to open a coffee shop in Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes. Then Joy regales the adventures of Bilbo Baggins in J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit. Join us in the Blanket Fort to hear about these cozy fantasies.  You can also watch our podcast on YouTube.  Follow us on Instagram. Email us your 2% cozier to blanketfortfiles@gmail.com for a chance to be featured in the blanket fort and please send us your favorite cozy activities to do in your town for an upcoming travel-themed episode

Tonight, we continue our journey, harvesting your prized pumpkin, and bumping into your old wizard, before enjoying the festivities of the Pumpkin Festival, where you will meet a brand new companion. If you would like to enjoy ad-free content, exclusive sleep stories, live readings and more, then you can join our wonderful Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/sleepycatmeditations Thumbnail Image created using AI tools (Canva Magic Write) Music by Liborio Conti (Blossom, The Blessing, Nature's Call) Music by Enlightened Audio (Divine Love) Long Road Ahead B by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100588 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Note: There is no intentional copyright infringement in this meditation. This is an original sleep story, based loosely on the fictional world of The Lord of the Rings created by J.R.R Tolkien.

You wake up in your cozy house under the hill and enjoy a quiet morning with your old companion the lovely red Squirrel. Out in your garden you are greeted by a very dear friend, the stout halfling Samwise the Brave, and together you embark on a relaxing journey through The Shire. You relax in his rowboat, and through an enchanted woodland grove and finish up by the Lavender fields, ready for an afternoon nap.  If you would like to enjoy ad-free content, exclusive sleep stories, live readings and more, then you can join our wonderful Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/sleepycatmeditations Thumbnail Image created using AI tools (Canva Magic Write) Music by Liborio Conti (Blossom, Light and Balanced, The Blessing) Music by Enlightened Audio (The Meadow Wakes) Note: There is no intentional copyright infringement in this meditation. This is an original sleep story, based loosely on the fictional world of The Lord of the Rings created by J.R.R Tolkien.

The Christian Outlook — October 5, 2024 Don Kroah is joined by Max McLean who has brought to stage some of the classic works of Lewis. C.S. Lewis's stepson, Douglas Gresham, explains the story behind Mere Christianity. Devon Brown, author of A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis was a guest of John Hall and Kathy Emmons.   Eric Metaxas interviews Joe Laconte, author of A Wardrobe, A Hobbit, and Great War about Lewis' friendship with J.R.R Tolkien.   Eric Metaxas returns to interview C.S. Lewis scholar Michael Ward about his groundbreaking work, Planet Narnia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was always my intention to eventually release both of these stories as a combined track - since one follows the other - but recently I had a lot of requests to do this because people were queueing the two stories but receiving an advert between them, so I thought I would bring forward the release. I hope it helps those of you who take longer to fall asleep! If you would like to enjoy ad-free content, exclusive sleep stories, live readings and more, then you can join our wonderful Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/sleepycatmeditations (This is a remastered version of my 2021 release, due to problems with music licensing for wider release) Thumbnail Image created using AI tools (Canva Magic Write) Music: Liborio Conti & Enlightened Audio & Kevin Macleod & Alexander Nakarada SFX: Homemade / Freesound & YouTube Audio Library Note: There is no intentional copyright infringement in this meditation. This is an original sleep story, based loosely on the fictional world of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

It's time to journey into the heart of Lothlórien, and to immerse yourself in the healing magic of the Elves. There are many more ‘Lord of the Rings' adventures to come, my lovely Sleepy Cats! TIMESTAMPS: Introduction & Breathing (00:00) Chapter 1: Gandalf & The River Anduin (04:23) Chapter 2: An Elven Welcome (09:28) Chapter 3: The Golden Wood of Lothlórien (18:37) Chapter 4: The Palace of the Lord & Lady (29:14) Chapter 5: Ancient Treetops (37:03) Chapter 6: Galadriel's Garden & Elvish Gifts (43:14) Chapter 7: Sleep Ambience - The Songs of Starlight (56:40) If you would like to enjoy ad-free content, exclusive sleep stories, live readings and more, then you can join our wonderful Patreon community here: https://www.patreon.com/sleepycatmeditations Music by Enlightened Audio - Angels Lament Music by Liborio Conti Note: There is no intentional copyright infringement in this meditation. This is an original sleep story, based loosely on the fictional world of The Lord of the Rings created by J.R.R Tolkien.

Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered ancient bone remains of an early human species that stood about one meter tall.二十年前，在印度尼西亚的一个岛屿上，科学家们发现了一种早期人类物种的古老骨骼遗骸，这种人类身高约为一米。These early humans became popularly known as “hobbits.” The name comes for the small humanlike creatures that appear in books by English writer J.R.R Tolkien.这些早期人类被广泛称为“霍比特人”。这个名字来源于英国作家J.R.R.托尔金的书中出现的小型类人生物。Now a new study suggests ancestors of the “hobbits” were even shorter.现在，一项新的研究表明，“霍比特人”的祖先甚至比他们还要矮小。Yousuke Kaifu of the University of Tokyo was a co-writer of the study. Kaifu said in an email, “We did not expect that we would find smaller individuals from such an old site.”东京大学的海部阳介是这项研究的共同作者。海部在一封电子邮件中表示，“我们没有预料到会在如此古老的遗址中发现更小个体。”The discoverers of the first hobbit fossils named them after characters in the The Lord of the Rings books. The fossils date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago.第一批霍比特人化石的发现者根据《指环王》书中的角色为其命名。这些化石可追溯到六万至十万年前。Researchers found the new fossils at a place called Mata Menge, about 70 kilometers from the cave where researchers found the first hobbit remains.研究人员在一个叫做Mata Menge的地方发现了新的化石，这里距离研究人员首次发现霍比特人遗骸的洞穴约70公里。In 2016, researchers suspected the earlier relatives could be shorter than the hobbits after studying a jawbone and teeth collected from the new site. Additional examination of a small arm bone piece and teeth suggests the ancestors were 6 centimeters shorter and existed 700,000 years ago.2016年，研究人员在研究从新遗址收集到的下颌骨和牙齿后，怀疑早期的亲属可能比霍比特人还要矮小。对一块小臂骨和牙齿的进一步检查表明，这些祖先比霍比特人矮6厘米，生活在70万年前。Dean Falk of Florida State University was not involved with the research. Falk said that the researchers in the study have “convincingly shown that these were very small individuals.”佛罗里达州立大学的迪恩·福克并未参与这项研究。福克表示，这项研究的研究人员“有说服力地证明了这些是非常小的个体。”The findings appeared recently in the publication Nature Communications.这些发现最近发表在《自然通讯》杂志上。Researchers have debated how the hobbits – named Homo floresiensis after the Indonesian island of Flores – developed to be so small and where they fall in the human evolutionary story. Homo floresiensis are thought to be among the last early human species to die off.研究人员一直在争论这些霍比特人——根据印度尼西亚弗洛勒斯岛命名为弗洛勒斯人——是如何变得如此矮小的，以及它们在人体进化史上的位置。弗洛勒斯人被认为是最后灭绝的早期人类物种之一。Scientists do not yet know whether the hobbits shrank from an earlier, taller human species called Homo erectus that lived in the area, or from an even more primitive human ancestor. Scientists need more study, and more fossils, to learn the hobbits' place in human evolution, said Matt Tocheri of Canada's Lakehead University.科学家们尚不清楚霍比特人是从早期的、更高大的人类物种——直立人——缩小而来的，还是从更原始的人类祖先演变而来。加拿大湖首大学的马特·托切里表示，科学家们需要更多的研究和化石来确定霍比特人在人体进化中的位置。In an email, Tocheri, who was not involved in the research, wrote, “This question remains unanswered and will continue to be a focus of research for some time to come.”在一封电子邮件中，未参与该研究的托切里写道，“这个问题仍然没有答案，并将在未来一段时间内继续成为研究的重点。”

On this episode, we start our journey into Peter Jackson's and J.R.R Tolkien's, Lord of the Rings series, Lord of the Rings Fellowship. We talk about the pros of practical effects compared to CGI, inner workings of Tolkien's, and so much more.

Daniel and Erwin review the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy based off of the books by J.R.R Tolkien and directed by Peter Jackson. They talk about the theatrical cuts of the movies the Fellowship of the ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, the extended editions changes and differences, how the films have held up over time AND MORE!

"Here at last, at the edge of the sea, comes the end of our Fellowship." So said Gandalf the White at the conclusion of J.R.R Tolkien's epic The Lord of the Rings. Today, Josh and Michael have a no less epic conclusion to their own adventure, that of ASCO 2024. Over the last fifteen days, our intrepid hosts have journeyed across the world of medical oncology, from the highs of colorectal, breast and lung cancer to the dark days of central nervous system tumours. As is our tradition, we end our coverage with a look at the studies chosen by the ASCO committee as worthy of special attention: the plenary presentations. It is rare indeed to have four presentations in one year that all change clinical practice, but that is what we have been treated to this year.Thank you for joining us for coverage of ASCO 2024; we have enjoyed ourselves immensely in covering it, and we hope you have enjoyed our meandering journey through some of the best oncology researchers in the world. We will be back in a couple of weeks as Oncology for the Inquisitive arm returns to its normal programming.Links to studies discussed in this episode (subscription may be required): ESOPEC: LinkNADINA: LinkLAURA: LinkADRIATIC: LinkFor more episodes, resources and blog posts, visit www.inquisitiveonc.comPlease find us on Twitter @InquisitiveOnc!If you want us to look at a specific trial or subject, email us at inquisitiveonc@gmail.comOncology for the Inquisitive Mind is recorded with the support of education grants from Pfizer, Gilead Pharmaceuticals and Merck Pharmaceuticals. Our partners have no editorial rights or early previews, and they have access to the episode at the same time you do.Art courtesy of Taryn SilverMusic courtesy of AlisiaBeats: https://pixabay.com/users/alisiabeats-39461785/Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only. If you are unwell, seek medical advice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Gandalf, I've never gone beyond my garden gate, let alone leaped over it!"We leap back into J.R.R Tolkien's Middle Earth, this time for some Hobbit-based merriment, fun and games. So grab a pipe, sit back by the hearth, and enjoy our (let's be honest) expected journey.Cast members Audra Stephenson, Jason Nguyen and Jenn Ragain are joined by author, actor and voice artist Christopher John Fetherolf. Christopher's fantasy novel The Last of the Giant Fire Lizards is available now!In this episode players must spell some of Tokien's tricksiest words, defend controversial fandom statements, decode some NSFW fan fiction and know their fantasy lands.Listen to The Last of the Giant Fire LizardsRead The Last of the Giant Fire LizardsFollow Jenn @HalfDoubleDocentFollow Jason @StudioMunchieWe are an ad and listener supported podcast, but mainly listener supported! Consider supporting our production over at patreon.com/gateleapers. All supporters get full videos of each episode recording, bonus monthly gameshows and ad-free audio episodes. If not, no worries xxMusic: BoucheDag by Alexander Nakarada (serpentsoundstudios.com)Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gateleapers-a-fandom-gameshow--5150861/support.

Matt et Raph poursuivent leur étude du modern-self. Cette semaine, ils parlent du rôle des artistes et de leur capacité à redéfinir le bien et le mal par l'esthétisme. Ils ont mentionné: • Comment la FANTASY fut inventée CONTRE LA MODERNITÉ (J.R.R Tolkien et William Morris) • Le camp de formation biblique Teen Ranch • Leur TelegraMM • Soutenir TPSG • Leur manifeste Memento Mori c'est le podcast qui parle du présent en prenant la fin comme point de départ. Ce contenu est proposé gratuitement par le blog ToutPourSaGloire.com dont la mission est d'aider les chrétiens à voir comme Dieu voit pour vivre comme Dieu veut. Découvre aussi: • Le blog de Raph: https://cutt.ly/raphcha • Le blog de Matt: https://cutt.ly/mattgir • Notre newsletter: https://cutt.ly/newstpsg Suis-nous sur: • Telegram: ⁠https://cutt.ly/TelegraMM⁠ • Facebook: https://cutt.ly/fbtpsg • Instagram: https://cutt.ly/instpsg • YouTube: https://cutt.ly/yttpsg • Twitter: https://cutt.ly/twittpsgPour soutenir le ministère TPSG: https://toutpoursagloire.com/soutenir/

This is the Wednesday evening Livestream edition of The MCU'S Bleeding Edge YT Channel/ Podcast, and we are doing a Livestream REVIEW of TLOTR: The Rings of Power EP 1, from the Amazon Prime Series based off the stories of author J.R.R Tolkien. With Co-host Jeff S($TrueKnowledge) moderating this evening's EP 1 review and Co-host Cyberneticshark joining our good friend Raymon of Booze & Chill YouTube Channel/ Podcast on the guest panel. Please support The MCU'S Bleeding Edge by simply liking, subscribing, and most importantly turning on notifications for our channel!! Intro Outro Music- " Bubble Up" by JZAC Cybers LINKS- https://www.youtube.com/@cyberneticshark all his links can be found on YT!! Andres LINKS- https://www.youtube.com/@PopCultureguy https://www.youtube.com/@DCMarvelPlusTalk Raymon's LINKS- https://www.youtube.com/@BoozeandChill https://www.tiktok.com/@boozeandchill All The MCU'S Bleeding Edge's LINKShttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090571329875 https://www.twitch.tv/themcusbleedingedge https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-mcus-bleeding-edge https://rumble.com/c/c-1009757 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCREPsCRvzjH0ggYL_Larq1A https://www.tiktok.com/@UCREPsCRvzjH0ggYL_Larq1A https://twitter.com/mcusbleedingedg Co-host Cyberneticshark is using a Logitech BRIO along with Skullcandy headphones, a Audio- Technica AT2020 Condenser Studio Microphone, going through a 2021 Flagship Lenovo Legion 5 Gaming laptop. Co-host Jeff S(TrueKnowledge) is working with a Audio- Technica ATR2100 Condenser Studio Microphone, along with a pair of Audio- Technica Headphones, Logitech BRIO- C920-C922-Streamcam, going through a 2023 MacBook Pro along with using a ACER Nitro 5. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-mcus-bleeding-edge/message

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In this week's episode, we take a look at five book marketing tactics that readers hate, along with five ones they usually enjoy. I also take a look at my advertising results for January 2024. For this Coupon of the Week we're doing one of my older books, specifically the entire TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS series. If you use this coupon at my Payhip store, you can get 50% all the ebooks on the entire series: WINTERTOWER The coupon code is valid until February 22nd, 2024. So if you're looking for something to read, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 186 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is February the 2nd, 2024. Today we're going to talk about five marketing tactics that readers hate. We'll also discuss my ad results for January 2024 and have an update on my current writing projects and have it a reader question or two in the mix. As a side note, this is the first time ever I am recording this podcast on Windows 11. I finally upgraded my desktop computer to Windows 11 in an effort to solve a driver problem that I've been having. It was something with my video driver where it had stopped receiving or the manufacturer had stopped putting out updates for Windows 10 but Windows 11 drivers were available. I've been putting that off for like two years, but I finally thought, well, nothing else has worked. Let's try and upgrade this desktop to Windows 11 and I'm pleased to report that it seems to have in fact fixed my video driver problem, so I am pleased with that. Hopefully it won't totally screw up the recording of this podcast, but I can see the file increasing in size as I record this, so I assume that it is in fact being successfully recorded. First up, let's do Coupon of the Week and this time we're doing Coupon of the Week for one of my older series, specifically the entire Tower of Endless World Series now that we finally have those up on Payhip. The problem was I had created those ebooks way back in 2012 when the software wasn't quite as nice, so I wasn't happy with the formatting, so it was a side project over a week or two to rip apart the formatting and get them all uploaded and you know looking nice, but that's done. If you use this coupon at my Payhip store you can get 50% off the ebooks in the entire series and that is WINTERTOWER and that will be WINTERTOWER, again, that's WINTERTOWER and you can find that in the show notes, along with links to the ebooks on the store. This coupon code will be valid until February 22nd, 2024. So if you're looking for something to read, we have got you covered. Now here is where we are at with my current writing projects. I am almost done with the Sevenfold Sword Online: Leveling, the second book in My Sevenfold Sword Online Lit RPG series. I just have a couple more scenes to write in the last chapter and then I need to write the epilogue and then the rough draft will be done. It will be about 90,000 words or so. I haven't decided if it's going to be a long series yet or not, because as I've mentioned before on this show, the first book did not do as well as I'd hoped, and with a year's worth of sales data, now I think it's pretty conclusive the market for LitRPGs is pretty much entirely in Kindle Unlimited and audiobook. So I'm hoping to have a audiobook for this soon after it comes out and I'm going to see how the book does and after the first 30 days I will decide whether it will be a trilogy with everything wrapping up with the third book, or if it's going to be a longer series, if it's viable to continue writing it, or if I should just wrap it up with the trilogy and move on. So that will be determined within 30 days after the book is out. After Sevenfold Sword Online: Leveling is published, my next main project will be Ghost in the Veils and I'm actually 2,000 words into that. That will be the second book in my Ghost Armor series and that will hopefully be out before April because April is when the recording slot for that to become an audiobook is scheduled and I really, really need to have it done by that. I'm also about 22,000 words into Wizard Thief, which is the sequel to Half-Elven Thief back in December and that will come out sometime after Ghost in the Veils, probably not that long after Ghost in the Veils, because I'm pretty far into that book. Since I mentioned before December 2023 was my best month ever for self-published audio, I should probably mention where I'm at with audiobooks. Right now, recording for Shield of Storms is underway and hopefully that should be out sometime in March, if all goes well. So that's where I'm at with my current writing projects. 00:04:10 Reader Question Now we have a reader question this week from Nico, who asks: Hi, Jonathan. I have read several of your books on Audible (I suppose means he's listened to several books on Audible). Now I'm starting the Frostborn saga. Some time ago I committed a mistake and read the Dragontiarna saga without reading the previous sagas, now I'm starting Frostborn, but it is constantly mentioning Ridmark's, previous adventures and I cannot find any books of this and I really don't want to make the same mistake as Dragontiarna. Well, first thing, thanks for listening, Nico. I'm glad you're enjoying all those audiobooks. I think what Nico is asking is what is the proper order to listen or read the Ridmark and Andomhaim stories because it seems like he started with Dragontiarna and then went back to the older series. I have to admit, when I wrote these I had in mind that they would each be stand alone and readers could read the series or whatever order they like, but I found in practice after almost 11 years of doing this, that that is not the case and people prefer to read everything in order. The proper order of the series is first the Frostborn series, second the Sevenfold Sword series, third the Dragontiarna series, fourth the Dragonskull series, and now fifth the Shield War series, of which Shield of Storms is the first book. Anything that Ridmark mentions about his previous adventures early in the Frostborn series is not something I've actually written. It's all like a back story to his character at that point that I haven't actually written, whereas if you're reading from Ridmark's perspective in Shield of Storms, and he mentions his previous adventures at that point, there's a good chance that this is referencing events that happen like Frostborn or Dragontiarna or Sevenfold Sword. As I mentioned, I did intend for each of these series to be entirely stand alone, but in practice it actually hasn't worked out that way. Though I am grateful that people keep reading them. 00:06:08 January 2024 Ad Results Now, since it's the start of February and we're a couple days past the end of January, let's see how my ads did for January 2024 because, like it or not, if you're selling something online, digital advertising is an inescapable part of your business model for most people. As usual, I advertised on Facebook, Bookbub, and Amazon. We'll go through that list in that order. First up, my Facebook ads. For Cloak Games and Cloak Mage, I got back $4.22 for every dollar I spent and 8.5% of the profit came from the audiobooks, which was a big improvement from past months. For the Ghost series, I got back $4.36 for every dollar I spent and 15% of the profit came from the audiobooks, probably because there's a lot more of them. Next up is the Bookbub ads. I've only been advertising Frostborn there, though I might expand that to include the Silent Order series in February and March. For Frostborn, I got back $6.14 for every dollar I spent, with a whopping 49.9% of the profit from the audio. So I very nearly made more from the Frostborn audiobooks than I did from the ebooks in January 2024. Now on to Amazon ads. I tend to target Amazon ads for individual books rather than series. In this case, Dragonskull: Sword of the Squire got back $2.05 for every dollar spent, with 44% of the profit coming from the audiobook. Sevenfold Sword: Creation, which I've been advertising in preparation for Sevenfold Sword Online: Leveling, got back $2.46 for every dollar spent, with 46% of the profit coming from the audiobook. Half-Elven thief, which currently has no audiobook, got back $3.27 for every dollar spent and finally, Silent Order Omnibus One back $15.60 for every dollar spent. I strongly suspect this was an anomaly due to Silent Order: Iron Hand having a big spike in free downloads for the month of January. So once again, we see that having audiobooks makes it a lot easier to generate a profit on ads, especially if you have a completed audiobook series. Of course, as we all know, the effort and money to get to a completed audiobook series is immense. I suspect that's why AI audio is so alluring to people. Of course, in my opinion, it's a false allure, since I suspect the vast majority of listeners have gone from passively to actively hating AI audio and will actively avoid it, save for circumstances like it's the night before your econ or biology final and you have to drive 12 hours, so you might as well have your phone read the PDF file of your textbook aloud to you, that kind of thing. People do seem to be a bit more forgiving of AI audio in certain nonfiction scenarios like that. But overall, it seems like the listener base for audiobooks still strongly prefers human narrated audiobooks. If you are thinking about doing AI narrated audiobooks, probably should proceed with caution there. So as always, thanks to everyone who bought or listened to my books in the month of January 2024. Since we were just talking about ads, that seems like a good way to segue to our main topic this week: 5 marketing tactics that readers don't like. 00:09:29 Main Topic: 5 Marketing Tactics Readers Don't Like As I mentioned earlier in the show, online marketing is an inescapable fact of selling things online. If you are selling anything online, be it books or cosmetics or machine parts or nails or anything else, at some point, you're probably going to have to do some online advertising. However, the point of advertising is not to annoy people. The point of advertising is to introduce your product or service to people who would benefit from using your product, your service, people whose lives would be better for having you as your product or service. As authors, we want to introduce our books to people who will read them and enjoy them and have you know, perhaps the troubles of their lives momentarily lightened as they are able to read a book and enjoy an adventure story and take their mind off their troubles for a little while. That is the purpose of online advertising: to get your books in front of the audience that will appreciate them. Now where this goes wrong is if you are using marketing tactics that are annoying. We can all think of examples of very annoying marketing tactics. In the Internet age, the pop up ad is one. If you go on the radio, the ads where the guy talks really fast about used cars and then he has a long disclaimer at the end. On TV or Internet videos, those ads for a pharmaceutical product that sounds like the villain from a Doctor Who episode in the ‘70s like Vondacraz, and how the end of the commercial if you take Vondacraz, there's a list of like 40 seconds of side effects, ranging from horrible tortures to death. Those commercials are also annoying. For books specifically, there are different things you can do in marketing that turns out to annoy your readers, which again is defeating the purpose of advertising. The purpose of advertising is to get your book in front of the audience that will benefit from or enjoy from reading the book. It's not to annoy the reader. Annoying the reader is a failure of advertising. So with that in mind, we would, we're going to take a look at five marketing tactics that readers don't like and then five ones that they do like. So let's start with the five marketing tactics readers don't like, number one among them is when every Tweet/post/newsletter from an author is an ad or promoting the next book. You can all think of examples like that, where you go on an author's Twitter feed or Instagram feed or Facebook feed and it's nothing but a wall of links advertising in their book. There's no interesting content there, nothing amusing, not even, you know, funny memes. It's just an endless wall of text of links leading to the book and that is both boring and annoying. If you follow an author on social media and then their feed is nothing but “buy my book, buy my book, buy my book” it's very quickly going to be annoying and you're going to unfollow that author pretty quickly. A subset of this problem is where the author doesn't actually engage with readers on any of these platforms. I get a lot of Facebook comments on my Facebook page and I try to at least like all of them and you know respond to them when appropriate. And so I try to keep up with that. I'm not perfect but you know, I make good faith effort doing it. But if you never engage with anyone on your social media platforms, then what's the point of having a social media platform? Frequency and aggressiveness of promo is also a huge turn off for readers. Aggressive, in your face sales tactics might work in a very limited number of fields, though I can't think of any of them, and they definitely don't work in books and selling books. If you get too aggressive, that is a huge turn-off for readers and they will go elsewhere. So that is also something to avoid. Our second marketing tactic that readers don't like our book marketing/ blurbs that don't work. What do we mean by that? One thing is book marketing or a blurb that gives away too much of the plot. Like if you're advertising a murder mystery and the ad gives away the ending, there's really no point in reading the book now, is there? So you will want to avoid that. Another thing is low energy copy where the book description or the text in the ad is just boring and drags and this is clear evidence that copywriting is a distinct skill from writing interesting fictional prose. So this is why doing a little bit of copywriting and practicing it and maybe taking like a, you know, short course online course on it isn't necessarily the worst idea for an author. Too many cliches strung together as a substitute for book copy, like for example “a sparkly friends to lovers, cozy fall young adult romance for fans of the Gilmore Girls, Happily Ever After guaranteed.” That is just a string of cliches joined together, and that is also boring ad copy. Finally lazy ad copy that doesn't actually reflect the desired audience but just tries to grab the latest buzzwords like “Game of Thrones meets Harry Potter meets The Hunger Games.” What does that even mean? Game of Thrones and Harry Potter and Hunger Games are all very distinct books that are very different from one another. The only remotely tenuous connection between Game of Thrones and Harry Potter is that both had magic, though the magic of Game of Thrones is way different than the magic in Harry Potter and Hunger Games isn't fantasy at all. It's basically dystopian science fiction. So you can see how joining together those different books into “Game of Thrones meets Harry Potter meets Hunger Games” is a very ineffective marketing tactic. The third ineffective marketing tactic is poorly targeted ads/poor category choices, like a nonfiction book with ads targeted for genre fiction. This used to be a fairly serious problem on Amazon where someone would have the bright idea of putting their, for example, their romance novel in a very specific nonfiction category like custom woodworking. Amazon has a lot of little niche nonfiction categories like that, where there are a lot of specialist nonfiction that tends not to sell very much and only a few people who are interested in their specialist nonfiction. So what happened is like this romance author would put his or her book into specialist woodworking and then, you know, sell 2 copies there and you're number one in the category. Then this author could go around boasting and saying, “hey, my book is number one in its category in Amazon,” even though it's in totally the wrong category and it's in a category of again specialist nonfiction where you only need to sell like you know two or three copies in a week to get to #1. Amazon eventually cracked down hard on that. So if you are publishing your book now, you'll definitely want to make sure it is in categories that at least correspond somewhat with reality. This is also important in advertising because very often new authors, when they try to advertise, will be like, well, I want to advertise my book to everyone who's interested in books, and that is way, way too broad. The number one rule of thumb in digital advertising is that the more narrowed down you can get on your audience, the better your results are going to be. I write epic fantasy for the most part, and when I ever has my epic fantasy books on Facebook, I try to narrow the interest down as much as possible to like you know, people who have read George R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, J.R.R Tolkien books in the United States and then I will use a very specific audience like that. Where this can really go wrong is if you are advertising your book to totally in the wrong audience, like for example you have written a really dark and gritty horror thriller and you're advertising it to an audience that enjoys reading happily ever after clean romance. The disconnect will be immense and you will, at best you'll just waste your money and at worst, you'll waste a bunch of money and get a lot of negative reviews. So that's why it's important to dial down your audience in your digital marketing as much as possible, as specifically as possible, because you're much, much more likely to get a better result. The fourth ineffective tactic we'll discuss today is relying on things that used to work but are now obsolete or way less effective than other things a writer could do instead. Add most of these tactics are the expectation that the reader will be the one making the effort, which is a bad idea. You want the process of buying your book to be as smooth and frictionless as possible, to use another common ecommerce term. One example of something that might have worked once but doesn't anymore is book signings as a beginning/niche author. I've never done an official book signing in the (how long has it been now?) in the 13 years I've been an indie author and the 11 years I've been working on Ridmark books, I have never once done an official book signing and I do not think the lack of that has hurt me in any way because it's such an ineffective way to sell books. It's an enormous amount of energy to travel around, haul your books around with you, set the table, network with bookstores and so forth, and at best, you might sell one or two copies. Now, this is different for, you know, really big name writers like, you know Stephen King or Nora Roberts or Brandon Sanderson. They can do a book signing and expect to have a reasonable number of people. But even still it's still a lot of work because, you know, both Stephen King and Nora Roberts are both over seventy I believe, and not that interested in doing a lot of travel anymore. And even Brandon Sanderson, who isn't even yet 50, even after COVID did a lot less traveling, and now just has his yearly convention in Utah. I think it's called the Dragonsteel Convention, where his fans can come and, you know, do the book signing experience and the convention experience. and he doesn't have to travel around the country, because that is definitely something exhausting to do. I'd say book signings, except for very specific and very limited circumstances, are generally a waste of time. Another thing that used to be effective, but is not anymore in the year of our Lord 2024, would be blog tours, where you go around to different people's blogs and give interviews and such like. Blogs are still out there. People still read blogs. I have a blog on my website I post on pretty regularly with writing updates. But as for marketing and selling books, it is really just a waste of time. You might sell one or two if you're lucky, but that would be too much work. Another one that used to work but probably doesn't anymore is giveaways with complicated rules and multiple steps. Amazon has been in a lot of lawsuits involving its software patent on one click shopping. The reason Amazon is Amazon/has grown to such size and success is because it's made e-commerce experience as seamless as it can be, which is a lot harder to do than it looks. You can buy a ton of stuff on Amazon and all you really need to do is just click that on the Buy Now button and so long as your credit card on file is current, Amazon will ship you a bunch of stuff or send you Kindle ebooks or music or whatever to your digital account and then you're good to go. In fact, that's one of the rules for people who are setting up their e-commerce sites. You need to make the experience as smooth and seamless as possible because the more steps there are between the person deciding to want to buy the book and actually making the payment, the more likely they're going to say “this is too much hassle” and drop out. The one exception I'd say to this is when you're setting up your newsletter, you do need to send a confirmation e-mail and this is automated with most mail providers. You do need to send that confirmation e-mail for what's called double opt in, because the European Union says we have to with the General Data Protection Regulation that they did a couple of years ago, so that would be a necessary step of extra complication that basically boils down to “the government says you have to.” But other than that, you should try and make any sales or any giveaways you do as seamless as possible. Another thing that may have worked once upon a time but does not is Kindle lockscreen ads. If you have a Kindle e-reader or Kindle Fire tablet, you'll know that when you power it up, you usually have an ad on the lockscreen for a book or something and you can tap on it and go to the book. I have never heard of anyone having good success with those. And I strongly suspect the reason is because they're annoying. I mean, when you pull out your Kindle, you want to go read whatever book you're currently reading. You don't want to get distracted with whatever else it is, and you just want to swipe the Kindle lockscreen ad either way, as fast as possible so you can get to your book. So Kindle lockscreen ads are also something I would review avoid. The fifth and final ineffective tactic I would say is too many advanced reader reviews. They can come across as inauthentic or sponsored. For a while, some authors were doing with their advanced readers  something saying “Hey, here's your advanced copy of the book. Be sure to leave your review, and here's some sample text for you can copy and paste for your reviews.” Doing too much of that comes off as inauthentic and it seems like you might just be as well hiring bots to leave reviews for your books, so it's probably best to avoid that. 00:23:31 Five Marketing Tactics Readers Tend to Like No, we don't want to be all negative here, so let's flip the coin around and come to five marketing tactics that readers tend to like. Number one: behind the scenes about the process of writing (typical day) or steps to put out a book. I do this pretty frequently on my Facebook and website where I'll say you know, this week I wrote X number of words of Sevenfold Sword Online or today I worked on making the cover for this book or listened to the audiobook proof or did this or that related to writing. That usually is a good engagement because the main reason most people ( if you are an indie writer), the main reason most people come to your website and social media is to find out when the next book is coming. And so if you talk about how you're working on the next book, that is pretty good social media content right there. Number two: humor and genuine engagement with the audience. Humor is subjective, so a low hanging fruit content for humor would be memes. I do enjoy a good Star Trek or Star Wars meme and you know, post them every so often, not every day obviously, because that would get excessive. But occasionally when I can't think of anything else to say, I fall back to a good old Star Wars meme. I do try to reply to comments. It's a good idea to do that. I don't get every comment because there's a lot of them. But if you make a good faith effort to reply to them, and you know at least engage with people, that is good. One thing I definitely do is when I have a new release day and post a link to the book, I do try to reply to everyone and thank everyone who says they bought the book that day. It does take a bit of time to do that, but since someone is spending actual hard currency on your book, it seems only proper to thank them for doing so. Number three would be bonus content like cut scenes or bonus chapters or scenes from alternate character perspectives, or extra information about the books that way. The way I implemented that is the short stories I've written where a lot of the short stories, in fact most of the short stories are not vital to the main plot of the books, but are sort of like DVD extra scenes and then I give them away to my newsletter subscribers, which is very good for newsletter engagement and people do very much enjoy the free short stories because people always like free stuff. Number four would be eye-catching covers and ads that fit the genre well. That is something that either comes with practice if you do your own covers or you need to pick a good cover designer and explain exactly what you want. Your book cover (when you have a book cover) has three missions and has to convey them all in under a second. And it has to..in under a second, a reader should be able to look at your book cover and see what the title is, what the author is, and what the genre is. If your cover meets all those missions and it looks decent, it is a good cover and it's meeting the mission of a book cover. If it doesn't do any of those things, it's time for a rethink. And finally, the fifth and perhaps best marketing tactic of all is word of mouth, where people hear about your book within communities they already engage in regularly and are intrigued enough to go take a look at it. This is something you can't force. People have tried. It usually doesn't work, or if they get away with it for a little while it, tends to backfire. But word of mouth is a huge thing, and it's something that can only happen organically and over time, where people recommend your book to their friends or their other members of their online community on Facebook groups or Reddit or whatever. So there you have it: five marketing tactics that readers hate, and five marketing tactics that readers tend to like. So that's it for this week. Thanks for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful and a quick word of thanks to my transcriptionist, who, in addition to transcribing in this episode, also help me pull together the research for it. I'll remind you that you can listen to all the back episodes on the show on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

Virtue ethics is an approach to life, a framework for developing character and making moral decisions. To learn about virtue ethics, you could read a philosophical treatise by Aristotle. Or, you could read a fictional novel by J.R.R Tolkien. As my guest, Christopher Snyder, observes, the ideals of virtue ethics are well illustrated in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, being vividly embodied in the characters of Middle-earth.Chris is a professor of European history, a medieval scholar, and the author of Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering J.R.R. Tolkien's Ethics from The Lord of the Rings. Today on the show, he shares the way Tolkien's fantasy stories provide real lessons in the capacity of ordinary people to act heroically. We discuss the courage of persistence, the importance of fellowship and how it differs from friendship, the role of merrymaking in the good life, and the value of chivalry.Resources Related to the PodcastAoM Article: Lessons in Manliness —The HobbitAoM Article: Against the Cult of Travel, or What Everyone Gets Wrong About the HobbitAoM Podcast #272: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Myth of ProgressAoM Podcast #723: Men Without Chests — An Exploration of C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man"Beowulf, the Monsters and the Critics" by J.R.R. TolkienScene from  LOTR: The Return of the King — "I Can't Carry It For You... But I Can Carry You"Scene from LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring — The Death of BoromirScene from LOTR: The Return of the King — The Coronation Of Aragorn"The Necessity of Chivalry" by C.S. Lewis The Making of Middle-Earth: A New Look Inside the World of J. R. R. Tolkien by Christopher SnyderBooks by Tom ShippeyConnect With Chris SnyderChris' faculty page

Nerd Alert! Nerd culture has gone mainstream so what better way to celebrate the reign of nerdom than talk about it on a podcast ('cause that's never been done before...) Join our hosts on an audible adventure discussing the spectrum of nerd fandom, how OG Dungeon Master J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit laid the groundwork for fantasy storytelling and how each would have lasted in Bilbo's quest! And for Extra Credit actor Lucy Fry talks about how Tolkien's tale inspired her love of perfomring and why it's important to lose yourself in fantastical worlds.

This week, it's icebergs and Icelandic monsters!First, Felicia discusses the Titan submarine incident that's been sinking the news recently. In case you live under a rock (or an actual iceberg) and haven't seen the headlines, a small submersible carrying 5 people (including the founder of the company that operates the vessel) to explore the wreckage of the Titanic went mysteriously missing, thus giving us this generation's “Baby Jessica in the well.” But with all of our modern technology, how can something like this happen?! *For the record, we recorded this episode prior to recent findings from the international recovery team that discovered debris from the submarine, confirming a catastrophic imploding of the vessel on its descent. All five people onboard are now believed to have been instantly killed in the incident.  Our hearts will go on…Next, Lauren tells us about the Draugr - an undead creature from Nordic folklore / Scandinavian saga literature and folktales! The Draugr may have similarities to other creatures we know - zombies, ghosts, or even vampires…but it's their magical abilities set them apart. We're talking shape-shifting, seeing the future, cursing victims, creating temporary darkness in the day, possessing superhuman strength, entering the dreams of the living, being immune to all weapons…even controlling the weather! If this sounds like something out of a J.R.R Tolkien novel, you're right on the "barrow-wight.”PS: If you have requests for future episodes or just want to hang out, follow us on Instagram @sinistersisterspodcast

This week's episode is inspired by Fr. John's recent feat of completing the Grand Traverse. Fr. John uses J.R.R Tolkien's essay, Leaf by Niggle, to share a beautiful reflection with Fr. Sean on his experience of the Grand Traverse.

Schrijver J.R.R Tolkien schiep in zijn boeken De Hobbit en In de ban van de ring een uitgebreide mythische wereld vol Dwergen, Elven, Orks en Hobbits, waar een allesvernietigende oorlog dreigt. Inmiddels vele generaties verslonden de boeken, toch werd het werk van Tolkien niet meteen omarmd door de literatuur. Hoe kwam Tolkien tot de schepping van de wereld in zijn boeken en hoe staat het nu met de literaire en wetenschappelijke erkenning van de romans? Lees hier het artikel dat Peter van der Ploeg schreef over de invloed van de Eerste Wereldoorlog op het werk van Tolkien.Presentatie: Gemma VenhuizenGasten: Hendrik Spiering en Peter van der PloegRedactie & montage: Liz Dautzenberg Heeft u vragen, suggesties of ideeën over onze journalistiek? Mail dan naar onze ombudsman via ombudsman@nrc.nl.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our links: https://linktr.ee/lotradhome A married couple take on the works of J.R.R Tolkien and Chris seeks to make a beginner's guide to the lore for Becca. This episode deals with capital G Eru Ilúvatar, Melkor, the Valar, Maiar, the Ainulindale and the beginnings of the universe. Tolkien is renowned for his world-building and storytelling. We tackle the densest part of the lore, taking place uncounted years before the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.

This week we introduce you to Ellie & Carl from “Tough Soles” who in 2017, handed back their apartment keys, shouldered some (too-heavy) bags, and set out to walk every National Way-marked Trail in Ireland. This list of trails takes is over 4,000km of trails. No adventure project is ever linear, and so what started off as a 6 month project twisted and turned to include fractured feet, running out of money, and eventually completing them all in July 2019. In 2023 they launched 'The Weighing In Project', where they are aiming to remove a tonne of rubbish from the Irish countryside in a bid to give back to the land that has given them so much. Visit https://toughsoles.ie/ Tough Soles on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tough_soles/ Tough Soles on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ToughSoles

We're packing a bowl of Fantastical History to sooth your weary mind for the next 3 and 1/2 hours...yeah that's not a typo, sorry about 27 minutes into this thing I blackout into a nerd trance and I don't come to for another 3 hours. This isn't just the lore you're somewhat familiar with, we go deep, so so very deep, maybe too deep? But I digress, that's what JRT would have done and dammit this is about him. We've got all the hits from the Years of the Lamps, the Years of the Trees. the 1st Age, the 2nd Age, and yes you guessed it, the 3rd Age. This is one to get stoned and do some housework to, if you know you know. 

A reading of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien with rain sounds in the background to help you fall asleep. If you want to hear more of this audiobook and others, join me on Patreon. I hope you enjoy this episode, please leave a positive review!  Support the podcast on Patreon and get a full extra reading every week, this book is a good few readings ahead on there, vote on what gets read next, get access to all episodes and complete audiobooks, including versions with relaxing rain sounds. Patreon: https://www.Patreon.com/DownToSleep Website: https://www.DownToSleepPodcast.com Creators Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/MadMorph Make a donation - Tip the creator here Down To Sleep is a weekly podcast of book readings and bedtime stories. A mixture of classic adult and children's story books read softly as audiobooks. Down To Sleep is a sleep podcast of bedtime stories designed to help you fall asleep. Turn on & drift off. If you need help sleeping or just want to relax listening to classic tales as bedtime stories with a side of unintentional softly spoken ASMR. Come gently nod off to sleep with me, a new episode every Monday. You can listen on Spotify, Google, Apple, and most podcast apps.

The Buddies take their first foray into the Grishaverse with Leigh Bardugo's, Six of Crows. This book had all of the elements of a Buddy Book Club favorite. Adventure – check. Heist Story – Check. Revenge – check.  6th Grade Reading Level – Double Check. That's really all it takes. The book had the Buddies (heart) rendering up discussions around kickboards, stock markets/gambling, rallying cries and much, much, more. So pack your gloves, saint-named knives, pearl-handled revolvers, and blast your way through Six of Crows with us.Intro: (0:00-1:40)Stock Up/Down (1:41-19:15)Favorite Scene (19:16-23:41)Favorite Character (24:42-27:39)Love/Hate (27:40-39:43)Listener Email (39:44-41:47)Casting the Movie (41:48-45:31)Conclusion (45:32-47:49)Next Book: THE HOBBIT by J.R.R TOLKIEN 

Nesta mini série especial do podcast MRG, Affonso, Beto, Didi viajam pelo universo fantástico de J.R.R Tolkien junto com a nova produção original da Prime Video. Neste último episódio Affonso, Beto e Didi Braguinha fazem suas observações finais sobre a primeira temporada da adaptação da obra maior da literatura de fantasia. Será que em seu final a primeira temporada entregou tudo que foi prometido? A relação entre Sauron e Celebrimbor foi bem desenvolvida? Galadriel está pronta para a Guerra do Anel? Na dúvida siga seu nariz e ouça esta conclusão da mini série do MRG. Nos encontramos na segunda temporada!

Nesta mini série especial do podcast MRG, Affonso, Beto, Didi viajam pelo universo fantástico de J.R.R Tolkien junto com a nova produção original da Prime Video. Neste episódio os matadores de robôs gigantes se esforçam pra entender o ritmo da série. A Galadriel é um personagem mal trabalhado? O ritmo está em falta na Terra Média? Os anões estão salvando os Anéis de Poder? E ainda contamos com a participação dos ouvintes que debatem com a gente alguns temas específicos sobre a série.

Nesta mini série especial do podcast MRG, Affonso, Beto, Didi e alguns convidados viajam pelo universo fantástico de J.R.R Tolkien junto com a nova produção original da Prime Video. Neste episódio os apresentadores finalmente voltam a sorrir e veem o vulcão de alegria acordar. A montagem da série é esquisita? Os orques deveriam ter sentimentos? Adar é um personagem mais profundo do que deveria? E ainda contamos com a participação dos ouvintes que debatem com a gente alguns temas específicos sobre a série.

Nesta mini série especial do podcast MRG, Affonso, Beto, Didi e alguns convidados viajam pelo universo fantástico de J.R.R Tolkien junto com a nova produção original da Prime Video. Neste episódio os apresentadores Affonso e Beto tentam entender neste quinto episódio, se a série está se perdendo. Existe muito barriga para pouca coisa interessante? Quem ama os livros e os filmes tem dificuldade em gostar da série? O mistério de Sauron é necessário?

Chapter 3 Along Came a Spider - In which Bodo and Rowen Visit the Barrow Downs A special feature based on Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) from the creators of The Halfhill Report. This is a work of fan fiction based on J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and the game Lord of The Rings On-line.  All place names, character names, excepting the original names in this work, and music are the exclusive property of Middle-earth Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company, and Standing Stones Games LLC.  No copyright or trademark infringement is intended. Reach us on Twitter @HalfhillReport, @PTaliep, @Toshmifune1, by email at halfhillreport@yahoo.com or on in the Discord channel. Find Toshmifune (Bodo) and Professor Taliep (Rowen) on the Wyrmrest Accord server in WoW or on LOTRO on the Crickhollow Server Find branded Halfhill Report and Halfhill Ag Alumni Merchandise at https://www.zazzle.com/store/halfhill_report Website Banner Art by  Sandra Schnell https://sanii.artstation.com   Logo Art by Toshmifune based on photo by imagesthai.com from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photography-of-cliff-with-sea-of-clouds-during-golden-hour-733172/

      In this episode author Vesa Iitti guided us through a who's who of the Finnish Occult scene of the 19th through 21st centuries. He helped us understand the context of this movement and these individuals in light of the politics of the day, and Finnish national identity. We also discussed the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland, which partly inspired the works of J.R.R Tolkien.    https://www.instagram.com/lightbringers_of_the_north/ https://www.facebook.com/valonkantajatkirja        

Nesta mini série especial do podcast MRG, Affonso, Beto, Didi e alguns convidados viajam pelo universo fantástico de J.R.R Tolkien junto com a nova produção original da Prime Video. Neste episódio os apresentadores debatem as "barrigas" do quarto episódio e procuram entender quais os próximos destinos a serem explorados em Anéis de Poder. A Galadriel é muito zangada? Sauron finalmente apareceu? Arondir está lutando para a série ser legal? Tudo isso e muito mais em um bate papo recheado de humor, conteúdo e...algumas opiniões polêmicas! Compre os livros da trilogia de Affonso Solano clicando neste link: Espadachim de Carvão vol 1 & 2

Nesta mini série especial do podcast MRG, Affonso, Beto, Didi e alguns convidados viajam pelo universo fantástico de J.R.R Tolkien junto com a nova produção original da Prime Video. Toda terça-feira um novo episódio será lançado comentando os detalhes da série e de seus personagens. Será que as liberdades criativas respeitam o material original? O homem meteoro pode ser Gandalf? Galadriel está fiel aos livros? Tudo isso e muito mais em um bate papo recheado de humor, conteúdo e...algumas opiniões polêmicas!

Temporada de dragones: Hay dos grandes series sobre historias fantásticas con dragones: House of dragon, en HBOMax, y Rings of power, en Amazon Prime video. Pero hay aún más dragones en esta temporada para ver en estas y en otras apps. Recomendaremos aquí los dragones de HBO Max, de Amazon Prime Video, de Netflix y de Disney+Disponibles en HBOMax:- House of Dragon, la serie que ocurre generaciones antes de Game of Thrones, y que se estrenó con 10,2 millones de espectadores en USA el primer día.- Game of Thrones, la serie original, con todas sus temporadas.- Lord of the rings, la trilogía de películas sobre el libro "El señor de los anillos" de J.R.R. Tolkien.Disponibles en Amazon Prime Video:- Rings of power (Los anillos de poder), la nueva serie inspirada en el universo de "El señor de los anillos" de J.R.R Tolkien. Fue vista por 25 millones de espectadores en el primer día. Se dice que habría costado 465 millones de dólares en gastos de producción y de derechos de la historia y los personajes.- Si ya tienes Amazon Prime Video, no te pierdas también la serie The Boys, no tiene dragones mitológicos pero sí otros personajes que también pueden hacer arder el mundo. Dragones en Netflix:- Cómo entrenar a tu dragón, las películas y la serie de DreamWorks (unos 18 títulos diferentes). - El dragón de la tetera- El jinete del dragón- El príncipe de los dragones- Dota sangre de dragón- Dragon's dogma- Corazón de dragón- El dragón, el regreso de un guerrero, Serie mexicana (2 temporadas y 38 episodios)- Game: Dragon Up Dragones en Disney+- Mi amigo el dragón- Raya y el último dragón (2021)- Eragon- El dragón chiflado- Un dragón en los alrededores (1954)- Zog (0+)Suscríbete gratis a este pódcast en ElSiglo21esHoy.com

Temporada de dragones: Hay dos grandes series sobre historias fantásticas con dragones: House of dragon, en HBOMax, y Rings of power, en Amazon Prime video. Pero hay aún más dragones en esta temporada para ver en estas y en otras apps. Recomendaremos aquí los dragones de HBO Max, de Amazon Prime Video, de Netflix y de Disney+Disponibles en HBOMax:- House of Dragon, la serie que ocurre generaciones antes de Game of Thrones, y que se estrenó con 10,2 millones de espectadores en USA el primer día.- Game of Thrones, la serie original, con todas sus temporadas.- Lord of the rings, la trilogía de películas sobre el libro "El señor de los anillos" de J.R.R. Tolkien.Disponibles en Amazon Prime Video:- Rings of power (Los anillos de poder), la nueva serie inspirada en el universo de "El señor de los anillos" de J.R.R Tolkien. Fue vista por 25 millones de espectadores en el primer día. Se dice que habría costado 465 millones de dólares en gastos de producción y de derechos de la historia y los personajes.- Si ya tienes Amazon Prime Video, no te pierdas también la serie The Boys, no tiene dragones mitológicos pero sí otros personajes que también pueden hacer arder el mundoDragones en Netflix:- cómo entrenar a tu dragón DreamWorks (unos 18 títulos)- El dragón de la tetera- El jinete del dragón- El príncipe de los dragones- Dota sangre de dragón- Dragon's dogma- Corazón de dragón- El dragón , el regreso de un guerrero (2T) Serie mexicana (38)- Game: Dragon UpDragones en Disney+- Mi amigo el dragón- Raya y el último dragón (2021)- Eragon- El dragón chiflado- Un dragón en los alrededores (1954)- Zog (0+)Suscríbete gratis a este pódcast en ElSiglo21esHoy.com

Le 2 septembre marque le 49ème anniversaire de la mort de J.R.R Tolkien. A cette occasion, nous vous proposons de redécouvrir sa True Story. C'est un discret et brillant professeur de linguistique, un père de famille et surtout un homme à l'imagination littéraire folle. Il est devenu le créateur de l'une des œuvres du millénaire séduisant des millions de lecteurs à travers le monde… Son nom : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. De l'homme derrière l'œuvre à l'inventeur de génie, découvrez sa True Story ! Une enfance difficile mais heureuse 3 janvier 1892. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien vient au monde, plus connu sous sa signature J.R.R. Tolkien. C'est en Afrique du Sud que Tolkien passe les 3 premières années de sa vie. Mais rapidement la lourdeur du climat ne convient pas à sa santé. Sa mère Mabel décide alors de retourner en Angleterre, et emmène avec elle ses deux fils, Ronald et son petit frère Hilary. Hélas, le jeune Tolkien ne reverra jamais son père, qui succombera à une hémorragie en Afrique du Sud sans jamais avoir pu rejoindre sa famille en Grande-Bretagne. Ecoutez la suite de cette histoire incroyable dans ce podcast. Pour découvrir d'autres récits passionnants, cliquez ci-dessous : Attila, le barbare sanguinaire qui a fait trembler l'empire romain Bobby Fischer, celui qui a inspiré la série “Le Jeu de la Dame” Le thérémine, l'instrument qui a révolutionné la musique Ecriture : Hélène Vézier Réalisation : Célia Brondeau, Antoine Berry Roger Voix : Andréa Brusque Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week your hosts wrap up J.R.R Tolkien's trilogy with The Return of the King. War is upon Gondor and many will fall to Sauron's army. Even if the orcs do not destroy Gondor there will be no victory until Sauron is defeated. Sam and Frodo are on their way to Mount Doom with the hope that by destroying the ring they can stop evil from overcoming Middle-Earth. However, the closer they get to destroying the ring the more Frodo suffers. Will he be able to part with the ring to save the world? Can the orc army be held back long enough to see Sauron defeated or will Middle-Earth fall?

Chapter 1 - In which Bodo relates his first adventure with Rowen A special feature based on Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) from the creators of The Halfhill Report. This is a work of fan fiction based on J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and the game Lord of The Rings On-line.  All place names, character names, excepting the original names in this work, and music are the exclusive property of Middle-earth Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company, and Standing Stones Games LLC.  No copyright or trademark infringement is intended. Reach us on Twitter @HalfhillReport, @PTaliep, @Toshmifune1, by email at halfhillreport@yahoo.com or on in the Discord channel. Find Toshmifune (Bodo) and Professor Taliep (Rowen) on the Wyrmrest Accord server in WoW or on LOTRO on the Crickhollow Server Find branded Halfhill Report and Halfhill Ag Alumni Merchandise at https://www.zazzle.com/store/halfhill_report Website Banner Art by  Sandra Schnell https://sanii.artstation.com   Logo Art by Toshmifune based on photo by imagesthai.com from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photography-of-cliff-with-sea-of-clouds-during-golden-hour-733172/

Pub Trivia is back, this time with a twist! In celebration of Rings Of Power coming out from Amazon, this rounds questions all tie into J.R.R Tolkien's works. What barrel do the guys have to scrape the bottom of to try to stump each other? Listen in to find out!We still sit around at the Green Dragon to chat the biggest news stories in The Week In Geek, sit under some stone trolls and discuss the comic books we're picking up this week in The List, set off some of Gandalf's fireworks with a Dramatic Reading. Also there's a healthy amount of craft beer reviews, and don't worry: they come in pints.Did we stump you on any of our questions? Do you have any that you want to stump us with? Let us know at baggedandboredcast@gmail.com or on any of the social media posts for this episode! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eagles, Gorcrows, and Crebain…oh my! Throughout the works of J.R.R Tolkien, including Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Fall of Gondolin, The Simarillion, and Beren and Luthien, birds feature prominently.  Some, like the Eagle, play a big role while other birds are more obscure. In this podcast episode, three life long friends and LOTR nerds discuss nearly every bird reference made in The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the Ring, and The Hobbit. They also explore birds throughout Tolkien's many other works. Using a mixture of books and movie depictions, your dorky hosts have a lot of laughs and raunchy jokes while discussing the feathered folk of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands. Whether you've only seen the movies or can fluently speak elvish this episode will keep you smiling and learning. Find out more about the Eagles ancestry and deeds, Ravens relationship with dwarves, bird spies of Sauron, and the majestic swans of Ulmo and their relationship to Galadriel. Also learn a deep cut about Tom Bombadil and Kingfishers, Aragorn's relationship with birds, and the possible meaning of the black swans. ..Also special shout outs to Podcasts that help pave the way for this episode including The Tolkien Road Podcast, The Prancing Pony Podcast, and The Lord of The Rings Minute Podcast. ..Intro Music By Ricky Pistone and Outro music by the Sidewalk Slammers. Check them out wherever you get your music...Cover art “Tuor and the Swans” by Eirwen98 from the Public Domain. ..If you liked this episode, please share, leave a review and subscribe! I really appreciate it 

Chapter 1 - In which Bodo relates the story of how he met Rowen A special feature based on Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) from the creators of The Halfhill Report. This is a work of fan fiction based on J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and the game Lord of The Rings On-line.  All place names, character names, excepting the original names in this work, and music are the exclusive property of Middle-earth Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company, and Standing Stones Games LLC.  No copyright or trademark infringement is intended. Reach us on Twitter @HalfhillReport, @PTaliep, @Toshmifune1, by email at halfhillreport@yahoo.com or on in the Discord channel. Find Toshmifune and Professor Taliep on the Wyrmrest Accord server! Find branded Halfhill Report and Halfhill Ag Alumni Merchandise at https://www.zazzle.com/store/halfhill_report Website Banner Art by  Sandra Schnell https://sanii.artstation.com   Logo Art by Toshmifune based on photo by imagesthai.com from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photography-of-cliff-with-sea-of-clouds-during-golden-hour-733172/