When given the opportunity, the Tolkien Professor loves to sit down and discuss Tolkien with students, friends, and fellow scholars. There are so many different topics to explore and so many interesting questions to try to answer!
Listed here are recordings from several of these chats. In each discussion session, the topic was mutually decided upon in advance, and then the conversation continued from there onwards.
The first few recordings are of conversations with Corey Olsen’s former students who took his Tolkien course at Washington College. Following these, there are also recordings of conversations with world-famous Tolkien scholars and 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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