When I get the opportunity, I love to sit down and discuss Tolkien with students, friends, and fellow scholars. There are so many different topics to discuss and so many interesting questions to try to answer! On this page are recordings I’ve made of some of these chats. In each case, my partner and I decided in advance on a topic we were both interested in, and then just went wherever the conversation took us.
The first few recordings are of conversations I have had with excellent former students of mine who took my Tolkien course at Washington College. There are also recordings with world-famous Tolkien scholars and my colleagues in the field of Tolkien research. Stay tuned for much more!
- Ben Kozlowski, On Knowledge and Evil - .mp3 or .m4a (September 13, 2009)
- Tara Holste, On Masters and Servants - .mp3 or .m4a (October 1, 2009)
- Liz Bateman, On Tragedy and Sorrow - .mp3 or .m4a (May 14, 2010)
- Professor Michael Drout, On Metafiction and Philology - .mp3 or .m4a (May 21, 2010)
- KMO of the C-Realm Podcast, On the Silmarillion - .mp3 or .m4a (May 24, 2010)
- Scott Holbrook-Foust and Eric Singletary, On Written and Oral Cultures - .mp3 or .m4a (June 23, 2010)
- Tara Holste II, On Government - .mp3 or .m4a (November 24, 2010)
- Allison Fischbach, On Mortality - .mp3 or .m4a (January 1, 2011)
- David Perlmutter, On War - .mp3 or .m4a (October 7, 2011)
- In the Bar at Mythcon 2011, with Paula DiSanto and the Silmarillionaires - .mp3 or .m4a (October 25, 2011)
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