Garden of Thought E.342 Lord of the Rings

We welcome Nick Patch of Strange Pages. He's creating a 64 issue comic book series featuring Roy Beckwith, an adveture through the cursed continent.And you can be in on the action through the Kickstarter (kickstarter.com/projects/demon). While we discuss that project, our agenda was to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth epics. Especially, Lord of the Rings. So of course we start with Game of Thrones. After covering plenty of Westeros fun, we turn to Endor and Andor and Middle Earth. Is it Biblical? Is it the first modern fictional epic? Where did Tolkien draw his inspiration? Was this a story about good v evil, or about industrialization and WW1? Maybe some of all. We'll talk about Frodo, Gandolf and the gang. I'll nitpick but rationalize away my nitpicks. Only to nitpick again. So, come into the world of numbers and magic and rings.