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EPISODE · Dec 9, 2024 · 57 MIN

Special: Did You Know The Hobbit Doesn't Pass The Bechdel Test?

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Welcome to the Okay But Did You Know? Podcast Pedantic Book Club! Quarterly we'll sit and talk about a book that is either a retelling of a classic tale or one that has been adapted into a tv series or film. This quarter we read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Did you know Tolkien recollects in a 1955 letter to W. H. Auden that, in the late 1920s, when he was Professor at Pembroke College, The Hobbit began when he was marking School Certificate papers, on the back of one of which he wrote the words "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit" which evolved into a story like the ones he was making up for his children? Join our Book Club and get access to exclusive content on Patreon Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Tiktok

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Welcome to the Okay But Did You Know? Podcast Pedantic Book Club! Quarterly we'll sit and talk about a book that is either a retelling of a classic tale or one that has been adapted into a tv series or film. This quarter we read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Did you know Tolkien recollects in a 1955 letter to W. H. Auden that, in the late 1920s, when he was Professor at Pembroke College, The Hobbit began when he was marking School Certificate papers, on the back of one of which he wrote the words "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit" which evolved into a story like the ones he was making up for his children? Join our Book Club and get access to exclusive content on Patreon Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Tiktok

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Welcome to the Okay But Did You Know? Podcast Pedantic Book Club! Quarterly we'll sit and talk about a book that is either a retelling of a classic tale or one that has been adapted into a tv series or film. This quarter we read The Hobbit by J.R.R....

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