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532. Robert Jordan and The Wheel of Time (with Michael Livingston)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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The Lord of the Rings, the Lord of the Rings and the Goddess Lomor Dhartha

Tolkien is doing much the same kind of thing with looking at Northern mythologies and languages. He's combining it like willy-nilly with Babylonian things and stuff. And then everything, you know, before or since from just about anywhere in the world. It's astonishing to look back and think that he thought he could pull this off... But part of the course is he changed what he was doing over time too.

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