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People can read relationships in The Silmarillion as homosexual if they wish, but I think we should make it clear that there can exist...

Not to open a can of worms, but I have questions about any confirmed bachelors in a society with an ironclad heteronormative bias...

Thanks, Nick! I only took the rewrite as far as Act 2, and will update it after you get the rest of the discussion up. Sorry for...

But Eärendil was not invited, in any sense of the word. Even relying only on the poem in Book 2 of LotR, it is clear that he wasn't...

when I listened to the latest class, I had to go and search my Kindle version for mentions of Eärendil. As someone pointed out, we...

Thinking more about this after the recent session (I am rarely available Tuesday night), and I think we're still missing something...

I don't think the title should have the word "Dragon" in it since we want the Dragon to be a surprise. I was thinking of "The Long...

Yeah, I'm less concerned about a mid-credits scene looking a bit like a time jump than a part of the actual episode.

Alright. I'll put the montage minus Morgoth between Thuringwethil flying away from the ship and the scene of her talking with Mairon, by...

I don't think the title should have the word "Dragon" in it since we want the Dragon to be a surprise. I was thinking of "The Long...

Except that Beren already has his own sword, named Dagmor.

Hi Jim, You are correct that I don't like using the Silmarillion as a canonical source. This is for several reasons. The main one is...

I'm pretty sure there was an episode much earlier this season in which who Narsil would get passed around to was discussed. I don't...

It's weird, and it always has been. It's said that "Ring around the rosy" is actually about the Black Plague (I didn't fact-check...

Alright. I'll put the montage minus Morgoth between Thuringwethil flying away from the ship and the scene of her talking with Mairon, by...