<p>Remember when we tried to have a comprehensive discussion of The Lord of the Rings in one 55-minute episode? Turns out there&#39;s a lot more to it.</p><p>In this introduction to our LOTR (Revisited) series, we take a quiz to find out which characters we are, get on a soapbox about how adaptations and their respective source materials are two separate entities, then highlight a few of the topics we plan to delve deeper into over the next few episodes.</p><ul><li>Inspirations from Norse mythology and medieval epics</li><li>Lore and races of Middle Earth and their real-world roots</li><li>Tolkien&#39;s Medievalism through the lens of the Victorian era</li><li>Hippie culture&#39;s embrace of The Hobbit and the Medievalism revival of the 1960s and 1970s</li><li>Tolkien&#39;s impact in modern fantasy fiction and Medievalism in current popular culture</li><li>Tolkien&#39;s work in context of conversations about race, gender, and power hierarchies in fantasy</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Hopefully we&#39;ll get to all of this. We&#39;ll see.</p>