Hawke Robinson and Michael Martinez sat down (via the Star Trek-like technology of Skype) to chat and record an episode of Middle-earth Talk Radio on May 23, 2010. Speaking for nearly an hour, they discussed the upcoming appearance of Elvish singer Rehtaeh (Heather Downing) at 2010’s Tolkien Moot.
The topics that Hawke and Michael dove into included:
- Tyra Banks – ModelLand
- Previously unexibited print by Tolkien called “Lamb’s Farm, Gedling” to be shown
- Filming for The Hobbit Movie beginning in Novement 2010?
- Smaug Stein
- Mads Hobbit Hole Blog – Doll House model on Bag End
- Brief reading from The Hobbit about Hobbit Hole
- The Eowyn Challenge
- Expanding the show range of discussion, please comment!
- How much do Dwarves weigh?
- Can Dwarves swim?
- Dragonlance Dwarves vs. Tolkien Dwarves
- Battle of alternate passages
- Reading and discussion of Letter #31, 24 July 1938, letter to Mr Furth, explaining delay in sequel to The Hobbit, and his work on Farmer Giles
- Word “mythologies” – Michael feels vindicated. 😉
- Michael reads from Book of Lost Tales – Chapter VIII – The Tale of the Sun and Moon – Christopher Tolkien’s introduction.
- Michael reads the “Shibboleth of Feanor” – The Peoples of Middle-earth – The History of Middle-earth XII – and the word shibboleth defined (ad naseum)
- “Feanor was a momma’s boy” – Michael Martinez
- Tolkien’s representation of insight into psychological theory as expressed through his characters such as Feanor, Aragorn, and others, in the face of critics claiming the characters were too 2 dimensional
- Thanks to Christopher Tolkien for making all this extra material available over the decades
- Reminder Rehtaeh performing at this years upcoming TolkienMoot
Opening Music was “Ra Tarinya (For My Queen)” by Rehtaeh from the album “Awakened”. Closing Music was Rohan Warrior by Rehtaeh from the album “Awakened”.
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