Episode 7 of Middle-earth Talk Radio, recorded on December 14, 2008, is one of the shortest episodes in the talk show’s history. Co-hosts Hawke Robinson and Michael Martinez discuss the fan-made movie “The Hunt for Gollum”, which was produced on a budget of £3,000 by fans of J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson in the United Kingdom.
Other topics include the world-wide fan toast to Tolkien on January 3, 2009 (commemorating J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday), Tolkien’s use of Welsh in devising the Sindarin language, a lengthy doctoral thesis about management techniques that utilizes Gandalf, Sauron, Saruman, Denethor, and other Tolkien characters to demonstrate points, information on “The Hobbit” movies, and more.
Featured music was drawn by The Tolkien Ensemble’s 2000 album A Night In Rivendell. Excerpts were played from “Orkrist – The Ode: The Fall of Gil-galad – Grond” and “The Fall of Gil-galad”.
You can download or stream (listen online to) Middle-earth Talk Radio Episode 7 from the Middle-earth Talk Radio Website.
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