We are going on an adventure! Love The Lord of the Rings? Why not read along with us as we consider the books from the writer's point of view! Taking it chapter by chapter, novelist Julia Golding will reveal new details that you might not have noticed and techniques that will only go to increase your pleasure in future re-readings of our favourite novel. Julia also brings her expert knowledge of life in Oxford and English culture to explain some points that might have passed you by.

(01:37) Tolkien the tinkerer: Palantír added mid-writing
(04:22) Leaving Isengard
(06:20) Merry & Gandalf: humour, recovery, and raising the stakes again
(12:15) Warning notes and the danger winding up
(18:24) The Palantír confrontation
(22:05) Aragorn’s shift, kingship emerging
(29:30) Saruman’s fatal step
(34:40) Ending Book Three

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