Place Myth and Story | Martin Shaw (Bardskull)
Rune Soup
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Merlin Gandalf: A Foreigner
It was really good because my first ever tarot deck was an Arthurian one. There were sort of stories that raised me in regional Australia, so it was nice to see them alive. I mean, I have this take on Tolkien that he wouldn't have been able to do what he did, had he not been captured by a kind of North Saxon thing. If he'd actually, if his interests were more varied, he wouldn't be able to bring through what he did. But unfortunately, it does mean that there is this era in his thinking, which I guess would have been a necessary one.
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