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Books by J.R.R. Tolkien mentioned on podcasts
J.R.R. Tolkien's legendary fantasy works, particularly The Lord of the Rings and The Fellowship of the Ring, were discussed across several podcast episodes, including The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, the Lex Fridman Podcast, The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, and Behind the Bastards. Jordan Peterson frequently referenced The Lord of the Rings to illustrate abstract concepts, arguing that the one evil ring serves as a powerful mythological symbol for the unifying yet corrupting nature of power, while also using the narrative to differentiate storytelling from scientific hypotheses. Marc Andreessen and Lex Fridman discussed the trilogy on the Lex Fridman Podcast when exploring the thematic resonance of the ring of power and drawing parallels to hobbits. On Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, the hosts clarified narrative details involving the spider Shelob across Tolkien's corpus, specifically distinguishing between events in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Finally, behind-the-scenes humor on Behind the Bastards playfully suggested that feeding the epic trilogy into an artificial intelligence tool could hypothetically enable anyone to produce a novel.
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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.
Discussed“Now power is one you see that reflected in the mythology in The Lord of the Rings because the one evil ring that binds them all together is the ring of power”
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The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first volume of J.R.R.
Discussed“yeah makes me it makes me think of the the scene in the The Hobbit you know with the giant spiders that the sheab”
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The Silmarillion
Discussed“There's lots in the book about healing from narcissistic relationships while you are still in them or when you're just trying to separate from them a little bit.”
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