🌿✨ #PPPJourney | 006 – Tolkien Reading Day Special 2016
Happy Tolkien Reading Day! On March 25 every year – the date of the fall of Barad-dûr – Tolkien lovers worldwide celebrate by reading and promoting the Professor’s life and work.
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🌿✨ #PPPJourney | 005 – The Music of the Ainur
"Reunited in the common-room and finally beginning their discussion of The Silmarillion, Alan and Shawn tackle nothing less than the creation of the universe, check out Ilúvatar’s playlist, observe a cosmic toddler tantrum, & learn what SPBMI means."
🌿✨ #PPPJourney | 004 – The Great War
"This time, Alan flies solo over the battlefields of World War I and discusses both the explicit and the implied influences that the Great War had on Tolkien’s writings, while Shawn is safely away in the officers’ club in Edoras with a refreshing drink."
🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 003: The Origins of Quenya and Sindarin Cont.
🧵/1 21:00 – Time for a little Sindarin appreciation! 🌿✨
Shawn begins a brief discussion of Sindarin, the more commonly spoken Elvish tongue in Middle-earth. I have to admit, I’m biased—
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🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 003: The Origins of Quenya and Sindarin Cont.
🧵/1 14:36 – Tolkien was “still in love with what he called the acute aesthetic pleasure, derived from a language for its own sake…” 🎶✨
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🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 003: The Origins of Quenya and Sindarin Cont.
🧵/1 10:25 – Shawn discusses a quote where Tolkien says, “a linguistic pattern strikes him like music.” 🎶
It wasn’t until I started listening to the podcast that I truly began to hear how musical Tolkien’s languages are.
🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 003: The Origins of Quenya and Sindarin
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“Shawn takes a solo look at the real-world linguistic inspirations that shaped Tolkien’s invented Elvish languages, Quenya and Sindarin, while Alan is away doing whatever a Man of the West does on his day off."
Hey everyone! Just a quick heads-up—due to some illness and mental health struggles, the next #PPPJourney threads and the Bree Crossroads email newsletter will be going out a little later today. Thanks for your patience and support! 💙
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🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 002: The Myth-lover Cont.
🧵/1 📖 39:33 - Mythopoeia as a response and defense of Myth—not as a lie, but as something valuable and true. And Tolkien responds through poetry. Damn, Professor, you never cease to leave me in awe.
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🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 002: The Myth-lover Cont.
🦶 24:12 - All I have to tweet is, “Did you know Aragorn broke his toe in that one scene when he kicked the helmet?!”
🌟 29:04 - 33:43 - Sam Appreciation Moment™️ for all the Samwise Gamgee fans out there!
🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 002: The Myth-lover
We continue our intro to J.R.R. Tolkien’s ideas on fantasy & myth with his poem for C.S. Lewis, Mythopoeia—a thematic companion to On Fairy-Stories. Also, polar bears. 🐻❄️
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🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 001: In Defense of Fantasy Cont.
🧵/1 40:22 — Tolkien's Soup Metaphor! I’ve fallen into this too, not just with Tolkien’s works but recently with War of the Rohirrim (tagging @quickbeam2000.bsky.social)
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🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 001: In Defense of Fantasy Cont.
At 25:35 — First instance of the Lord of the Mark reading Old English! 🥹 Anddd the very first mention of Eärendil! ✨ Slight spoilers, but Shawn’s love for the tale of Eärendil is contagious;
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🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 001: In Defense of Fantasy Cont.
🧵/1 At 17:00, Alan and Shawn start talking about the Facebook group where they met (and still admin today). And I was there. I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago—well, okay, just 8 years ago. (Wait... 8 years ago?! Damn.)
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🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 001 Cont.
At 15:20, Alan shares that he’d be a homebody hobbit or someone like Faramir. Shawn chimes in, saying he’d be the Herb Master in the Houses of Healing, “rattling on about all the different names for the athelas plant.” 🌱💭 (All of this is accurate about them.)
🌿✨ #PPPJourney | Episode 001: In Defense of Fantasy
In this first episode of The Prancing Pony Podcast, Alan and Shawn introduce themselves, share why they started the podcast, and discuss key moments from Tolkien’s life based on Humphrey Carpenter's biography. 🏞️
#BacktoMiddleEarth
Feeling the pull back to Middle-earth? Same. 2025 has been a lot, so I’m diving back into Tolkien’s world—and into my favorite podcast, @prancingponypod.bsky.social. Cozy, insightful, and always a comfort, it's the perfect way to revisit faerie. Wanna join me? 🧙♂️✨ (🧵)
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