<p>Hello everyone!!</p><br><p>We're finally tackling Tolkien! And so here we are, at the beggining... In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.</p><br><p>We go into Tolkien's role in fantasy, how The Hobbit still holds up as both a monument of fantasy and still an excellent book, and the resonance that this work has to fantasy still.</p><br><p>Thus we close off 2025 on The Left Page, by beggining Tolkien, with more to come!</p><br><p>Enjoy!</p><br><p><br></p><p>If you can and are interested in early episodes and our bonus content, soon to be plenty more, check out our Patreon!</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/leftpage" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/leftpage&nbsp;</a></p><p>Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord!</p><p><a href="https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPN" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPN</a></p><br><p>Intro Music: Ultralounge · Kevin MacLeod (<a href="https://incompetech.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>incompetech.com</u></a>)</p><p>Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>