On May 31, 2010 Hawke Robinson and Michael Martinez recorded Episodd 25 of Middle-earth Talk Radio. In addition to remembering the many veterans who have given their lives for our country on the American Memorial Day, they also anticipated the upcoming appearance of Elvish singer Rehtaeh (Heather Downing) at 2010’s Tolkien Moot.
Discussion topics from this episode included:
- Thank you to all the military veterans who make it possible for us to have the freedom we have.
- vBig news – Del Toro resigns as director for The Hobbit movies, now what?
- theonering.net “slashdotted” and the “slashdot effect”
- Peter Jackson’s old Zombie gory spoof movie “Dead Alive”
- Are there zombies in Middle-earth in his books?
- What makes a zombie a zombie?
- The Hobbit play in Norwich Theater – Roy Marsden
- Another Hobbit play in Liverpool at the Empire
- Terry Goodkind’s “Sword of Truth” Series, “Legend of the Seeker”, David Eddings Belgariad
- Books vs. eBooks vs. PDFs
- Civilization III vs. Civ IV (Michael thinks Civ IV “sucks”)
- Harvard courses on Tolkien available online, Mark Zender Ph.D., how Tolkien uses language in storytelling
- British Petroleum Gulf Oil Spill
- Adventuring in the Second Age of Middle-earth
- Yahoo Fan Modules Group
- The Numenor Project
- The Numenor Project First Contact Series
- Classical civilization vs. medieval civilization for Middle-earth settings
- No Inns?
- Area later known as Andrast, peninsula in what would be far western Gondor many centuries later.
- Primitive early Men prior to the Numenoreans helping raise them from the darkness.
- Orcs and their daylight and night vision
- Story of Tal-Elmar …. Part IV of Peoples of Middle-earth
- A real palace that could be considered “Elvish” in design according to Michael (make this image for news announcements)
- How role playing games encourages research
- Second Age 1200 to 1600
- When would precursor/proto-hobbits first appear and where
- Adunaic glossary
Opening Music: “She Walks in Beauty” from the album Elementaria by Rehtaeh. Closing Music: “Métima Lenda (Final Journey)”from the album Elementaria by Rehtaeh.
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