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visitor @lonelyvisitor.bsky.social · 5d

“they flip kingdoms” i am assuming can only refer to galadriel and celeborn rofllllllll

By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, our latest episode is live! This time around it's marriage as portrayed in Tolkien's works, which is far less straightforward than it might seem. Art as ever by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social here showcasing Galadriel's travails with the Purse...

79. Some People Flip Houses, They Flip Kingdoms. | By-The-Bywater

On marriage in Tolkien.

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oriana schwindt @schwindter.bsky.social · 5d

elf-marriage is so weird!!!

By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, our latest episode is live! This time around it's marriage as portrayed in Tolkien's works, which is far less straightforward than it might seem. Art as ever by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social here showcasing Galadriel's travails with the Purse...

79. Some People Flip Houses, They Flip Kingdoms. | By-The-Bywater

On marriage in Tolkien.

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, our latest episode is live! This time around it's marriage as portrayed in Tolkien's works, which is far less straightforward than it might seem. Art as ever by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social here showcasing Galadriel's travails with the Purse...

79. Some People Flip Houses, They Flip Kingdoms. | By-The-Bywater

On marriage in Tolkien.

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 5d

The ride, it is wild.

Disco Bones @joncinemadual.bsky.social · 13d

I grabbed this book from the library thanks to @bythebywater.bsky.social and oh boy does the tenor change when you get to the Charles Williams chapter

“Rational this, Catholic that

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SECRET HIDDEN ORDER OF THR GOLDEN BANANA (or whatever)”

A picture of the book The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter.

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 15d

When you’re watching the latest Rifftrax and something unexpected happens.

A view of two random dudes in a semi-desert creek gulch while Rifftrax’s Mike Nelson says “Goldberry hired these guys to kill Tom Bombadil…”

A view of two random dudes in a semi-desert creek gulch while Rifftrax’s Mike Nelson says “…so she can collect the insurance.”

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 16d

About right. (Click through.)

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 17d

average noldori when you ask them about the war of the jewels

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 17d

What percent of wars throughout history had a "good guy"? It can't be very high I would think

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 16d

It must be true.

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 17d

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again?

CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but

CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty?

CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived

CHOTINER: So you’ve said

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 17d

We feel this pain.

Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 17d

Every fucking day.

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · 19d

We are indeed! New episode in two weeks' time. (Also happy hobbit day or the like.)

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20d

talking about marriage next time on @bythebywater.bsky.social

A comic in which Galadriel does the “sometimes I can still hear his voice” meme for a bewildered fellowship. She mumbles on Celeborn

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · Sep 5

Terrific slice of literary history right here. Did it add some titles to my TBR list? You bet it did.

By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our 78th episode is live! Listen to us talk about #Tolkien in the context of the regular gathering he, C S Lewis, Charles Williams and more did as the Inklings — and if it was all that. On #MegaphonicFM as always, and of course art by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social as usual!

78. How to Maximize Your Joint Slay. | By-The-Bywater

On the Inklings.

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faybarra.bsky.social @faybarra.bsky.social · Sep 2

Several good laughs and insights this month. Thank you.

Inklings = Fairy Rotary Club

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Sep 7

Roffle. That works!

By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our 78th episode is live! Listen to us talk about #Tolkien in the context of the regular gathering he, C S Lewis, Charles Williams and more did as the Inklings — and if it was all that. On #MegaphonicFM as always, and of course art by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social as usual!

78. How to Maximize Your Joint Slay. | By-The-Bywater

On the Inklings.

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 26

That we are. Episode out on Labor Day!

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · Aug 26

talking about the Inklings next time on @bythebywater.bsky.social

Illustration modeled after a manga cover with Charles Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis (all wide-eyed and various degrees of twinky) and a swooping eagle with a baby in the bottom foreground. Tolkien holds a pipe. Giant blocky text running horizontally across the lower third of the image reads THE INKLINGS!!

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 19

It must be true. (Recording our Inklings episode this weekend!)

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · Aug 19

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn the Inklings’ pub table and turn the Eagle and Child into the Eagle and Shit

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 16

The truth of this.

Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · Aug 7

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 12

Brooklyn or Mordor? Your choice.

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · Aug 12

Pretty good!

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 11

We like the idea of our alternate dreamscape episodes talking about unusual things.

Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · Aug 7

Just realized I dreamt last night that I was listening to the new @bythebywater.bsky.social episode, which was not the same thing as the actual new episode in question. (I'm listening to that now.)

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · Aug 5

Ned, Oriana, and I passing this book around in a sisterhood of the traveling hobbit situation

By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you have some spare change lying around.

A Rare Copy of ‘The Hobbit’ Is Found on an Unassuming Shelf

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you have some spare change lying around.

A Rare Copy of ‘The Hobbit’ Is Found on an Unassuming Shelf

www.nytimes.com

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 5

Ha, it does! Glad you enjoyed it -- and the whole run of them too!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · Aug 4

I never say things intending them to be the episode title but sometimes I'll say a phrase and immediately think "please let that be it please please please" and here we are

By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 4

Episode 77 is live on #MegaphonicFM! This time out -- dragons, lots of 'em. Or at least the ones #Tolkien would have written about and knew about. Episode art as ever by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social

77. A Mean Girl Nuclear Bomb. | By-The-Bywater

On dragons.

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 4

Episode 77 is live on #MegaphonicFM! This time out -- dragons, lots of 'em. Or at least the ones #Tolkien would have written about and knew about. Episode art as ever by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social

77. A Mean Girl Nuclear Bomb. | By-The-Bywater

On dragons.

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Aug 2

New episode out Monday!

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · Aug 2

talking about dragons this time on @bythebywater.bsky.social

Watercolor illustration of a dragon’s eye rendered in fiery yellows and reds with a ghostly woman reflected in it. Surrounding the illustration is a pile of jewelry (bracelets, necklaces, rings)

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By-the-Bywater @bythebywater.bsky.social · Jul 29

Episode 77 recorded yesterday and we'll have it to you a week from today. We hope you like dragons. (We know you like dragons.)

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