Description

This week, the paradoxical comforts of the Shire. How did it come into being, and how did the hobbits settle there? How does if embody and reject the vision of a nostalgic, nationalist England? And how long is the High Hay anyway?

Show Notes

• The Pyrates (George MacDonald Fraser)
• The Return of the Shadow (The History of Middle-earth)
• Shire Reckoning
• "The Gods Return to Earth: C.S. Lewis’ Review of The Fellowship of the Ring"
• "Tolkien Tuesday: Tolkien, Landscape Archaeology, and the First Age of Middle-earth"
• “The Lady’s Gift! The Star-glass! A Light to You in Dark Places, She Said it Was To Be.”
• The Lord of the Rings Deluxe Illustrated Box Set

Shire Reckoning is a Next Word production. For bonus episodes and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/NextWord.

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Music by Corvus from Pixabay.