Episode Notes

Good morning and welcome! Speak, friend, and enter the Bag End Book Club, a celebration of Tolkien's most famous and influential works. Every two weeks we will come together having read a handful of chapters and discuss the stories of Middle-Earth, from the Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings and further on to the Silmarillion. Stop a moment and enjoy some good company and better books.

What's up everyone! We're finally here: uncharted territory for most of us, the Silmarillion is sort of the elephant in the room for this podcast. Despite our preconceived notions it goes pretty smoothly! Tolkien really can just turn it on and write the coolest line you've ever seen at the end of a Wikipedia page.