
001 - In Defense of Fantasy
The Prancing Pony Podcast
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Tolkin's Dream of a Red Book of Westmarch
There's a little bit of tolken in farmere, and i don't know whether itis intentional or not. One of the things you read about in the humphrey carpeter book is that tolkin had a recurring dream. And he gave that exact dream to fairmere. It's some of the most evocative word work that token came up with in her ah ya, the farmere thing. There are other things that you see in him, like fermere's understanding that war is necessary, but his feeling that it is not a desirable thing.
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