October 20, 2009 was the day that co-hosts Hawke Robinson and Michael Martinez got together to record Episode 17 of Middle-earth Talk Radio. The talk show had been growing in popularity by this point and people were enjoying the musical selections that Hawke was featuring in edited shows. Here is an edited version of the original announcement.
Swedish group Ad Dios album cover “A Journey Through Middle-earth”
Opening music:
“Middle-earth” by Ad dios ( www.addios.se ) from their album A Journey Through Middle-earth (included with permission by Mikael)
Topics:
- Streaming servers databases updates nearing completion
- Swedish music group, Ad Dios, sent their 6th album and asked us to play their music
- Vote on your favorite piece(s) from their album
- Suggest music pieces you would like to hear (or contribute) for Middle-earth Radio to select as intro and closing “signature” music
- Send us your Skype contact name to join in conference call to participate in show live: middleearthradio at gmail dot com or via Skype: middleearthradio
- The origin of “Tuesday”
- Tolkien & His Love of Trees and the Environment
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- The Telegraph: J.R.R. Tolkien Trained as British Spy
- Etymology of the word “Hobbit”: 1859-ish
- Discussion part 2: “Tales Before Tolkien” by Douglas A Anderson
- Tolkien’s Smith of Wootton Major an intentional rewrite of The Golden Key by George MacDonald
- The Ring of Words book
- Michael’s thoughts on Hobbits being modeled on badgers
- Possible homage by Tolkien to George MacDonald in Lord of the Rings (Moria fight)
- Tolkien’s fondness for pipeweed
Links (Some of these links may no longer work):
- http://www.addios.se/
- Queue up Ad Dios music by request online for Stream 4 here: Ad Dios A Journey To Middle-earth Request List.
http://playlist.middleearthradio.com/stream4-playlist/playlist.php?search=dios - Vote on your favorite Ad Dios Middle-earth Journey piece:
http://www.middle-earthradio.com/polls_list - Suggest opening and closing Theme Music for Middle-earth Talk Radio in the Forum.
http://www.middle-earthradio.com/forum/middle-earth-talk-radio/75204205 - Tolkien & His Love of Trees and the Environment Essay Other Minds Magazine Issue #2
http://www.omzine.org/downloads/other-minds-magazine-issues-english-pdf-files/other-minds-magazine-issue-2-english-pdf-revision-20080222/view - Other Minds Magazine: http://www.omzine.org
- Online Etymology Dictionary: http://etymonline.com/
- The Telegraph: J.R.R. Tolkien Trained as British Spy:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6197169/JRR-Tolkien-trained-as-British-spy.html - New Tolkien-related book: The Ring of Words:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-ring-of-words-by-p-gilliver-j-marshall—e-weiner-1803284.html
Closing music:
“The Shire” by Ad dios ( www.addios.se ) from their album A Journey
Through Middle-earth (included with permission by Mikael)
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