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.

00:00 Introduction: Climbing the Stairs of Cirith Ungol
01:28 The Road as Character: An Unusual Opening
03:39 Beyond Caring: The Exhaustion of War
05:26 Minas Morgul: Imprisoned Moonlight and Corpse Light
09:53 Shadowy Meads: White Flowers and Perverted Beauty
15:40 The Army Departs: Beacons of Darkness
20:06 The Phial of Galadriel: Starlight Against Shadow
22:52 Frodo's Lament and the Shire's Echo
24:29 The Straight Stair and the Winding Stair
29:35 Don't the Great Tales Never End: Sam's Famous Speech
35:11 The Pieta Moment: Gollum's Fleeting Chance

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