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This week, heroes and heroism in The Lord of the Rings. How do we react to arcs, or the absence of arcs? Is success a means of measuring the worth of a hero? Who gets the best arc in the whole book? Is Merry more of a Squirtle, or a Bulbasaur?
Show Notes
- The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins (Leonard Nimoy)
- Leaf By Niggle
- The Lord of the Rings Set, all 1st Printings of the 1st Edition (Abebooks)
- Pauline Baynes
- The Bovadium Fragments
- Burns & Co.
- The Mythmakers (John Hendrix)
- Goblins! (Adam Roberts)
- A Princess illustrates The Lord of the Rings: Ingahild Grathmer, Eric Fraser and the Folio Society
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