By-The-Bywater
Since 2019
A monthly conversation about everything Tolkien, from the texts to the adaptations and parodies, by three hosts with a critical ear.
MIDDLE-EARTH TIMELINE
Reading Tolkien is even better with company. These podcasts, YouTube channels, websites and societies talk about his books, his world and their adaptations, from chapter by chapter readings to lore videos and scholarly lectures.
The last part gathers the resources fans use every day: wikis and encyclopedias, maps and timelines, Elvish dictionaries and tengwar tools, journals and archives.
Podcasts are good company on long walks and commutes: some read the books a chapter at a time, others talk about the films and the series as they come out. The YouTube channels lean on pictures, with maps, drawings and bits of lore explained in a few minutes.
Societies bring readers together in person, through local groups, meetings and journals. The resources are the tools fans keep open in a tab while reading: an encyclopedia to check a name, a map to follow a journey, a dictionary to read an Elvish inscription.
Everything is in English or in French, sorted by type then by name. Each card links to the creator's or the resource's own site, and the buttons just below show one type at a time.
It depends on what you like. The Prancing Pony Podcast reads Tolkien's books chapter by chapter with humour, while the Tolkien Professor, Corey Olsen, offers lectures and long readings close to a university course.
Yes. The Tolkien Society, founded in 1969, is an educational charity open to everyone, with local groups, events like Oxonmoot and its journals Amon Hen and Mallorn.
