ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Analyzing the worldview in J.R.R. Tolkien's books on Middle-earth and Lord of the Rings and seeing how the worldviews in adaptations (i.e. Rings of Power) are good or poor representations of Tolkien's worldview.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 19 days
Average audio length:
43 minutes
English
United States
84 episodes
since Sept. 6, 2022
episodic
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Philip brings on Phylicia Masonheimer, founder of Every Woman a Theologian, to discuss universal morality in Middle-earth: objective truth about the members of the fellowshipsacrificing their own desires for good of everyone else. Right and wrong aren’t one thing for an elf and another thing for a …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Philip brings on Elise to discuss mentors of Middle-earth who show different styles of guidance that either paves the way for wisdom or leads to folly. Gandalf stays true to his purpose as an Istari, while his fellow wizard Saruman strays from what he was sent to accomplish. Melian and Galadriel ha…
Philip brings on Paul Backholer to discuss the Christian themes around Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, such as his dilemma in leaving the Shire, his resilience against the One Ring, and his mercy towards Gollum. Frodo’s journey is unique to any character in Middle-earth in that he knowingly…
Philip brings on Matthew Colvin to discuss how Turin slaying Glaurung the dragon is a type scene among monster slayings in Beowulf, Volsunga Saga, 1st Maccabees (and scenes from the slaying of other monsters in middle-earth). There is commonality among these stories that Tolkien used as a way to re…
Philip brings on author and professor Austin Freeman to discuss the theme of hope in The Lord of the Rings. Their conversation revolves around hope as placed in what is unseen and at odds with despair. Austin also gives insight into how, for Tolkien, evil corrupts itself and only the in-your-face a…
Philip brings on Michael Elam to discuss a much debated issue in The Lord of the Rings, are the orcs and Gollum redeemable? The discussion revolves around the orc as a type of person and Gollum as a pitied creature for all of the evil he has done. Did Tolkien mean for them to be unredeemable?
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Philip brings back Ben Avery from the Stangers and Aliens podcast to discuss the Rankin/Bass animation, “The Hobbit”. The conversation revolves around the four pillars of Tolkien's worldview, a major focus of The White City Podcast: divine intervention, universal morality, temptation, and good vs e…
Philip brings back Anthony Lee Phillips to continue their discussion on the languages of middle-earth; more specifically the pronunciations, the consonants, the vowels, and the languages of different races such as the Ents. Anthony talks about his experience with languages and how Shakespeare was p…
Philip brings on author Anthony Lee Phillips to discuss Tolkien's Languages. Anthony makes a connection between Tolkien's poetry and what he thought of languages. The discussion moves to the background of the Middle-earth languages and how they are the center of the story for Tolkien.
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Philip brings on David Greene to discuss divine intervention, the second of the 4 pillars of tolkien's worldview (Temptation, Divine Intervention, Universal Morality, and Good vs Evil). The key topics they touch on are free will and providence, and coincidence versus providence. Examples of divine …
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