Pints With Aquinas LOTR, Family Life, and Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Bill Donaghy) | Ep. 358
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Discovering Tolkien
- Matt Fradd stumbled upon his dad's weathered copy of Lord of the Rings in a cedar closet as a teenager.
- This started his lifelong love for Tolkien's works, describing it as a transcendent experience.
Tolkien's Precision
- Tolkien's meticulous attention to detail in Lord of the Rings, like matching moon phases to character locations, enhances the story's realism.
- This dedication makes the world feel perfectly orchestrated and adds to the immersive experience.
LOTR's Popularity
- Matt Fradd mentions Lord of the Rings consistently topping polls as the book of the century/millennium.
- This highlights its widespread recognition and enduring popularity.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Dostoyevsky's Brothers - A Condensed Version of the Book
01:44 • 2min
The Spice Trilogy - It's in Jem
03:26 • 2min
Paralandra Is a Romance
05:11 • 2min
Theology of the Body - The Golden Key
06:43 • 2min
I E Your Heads Better Than One
08:30 • 4min
The Law of the Rings - A Review
12:11 • 2min
Tolkin's the Legend of the Rings
13:58 • 2min
Lord of the Rings
16:17 • 2min
I Don't Want This Ever in Synematic Form
18:06 • 2min
I Love a Long Story
19:44 • 2min
The Music of the Valor
22:01 • 2min
Tom Bombedill, Farmer Maggot
23:52 • 3min
You've Got to Be So Intentional
26:35 • 2min
The Eyes of the Window to the Soul
28:25 • 3min
Is That Just Not Focusing?
31:24 • 2min
You Don't Let It Go You, You've Got to Hold the Gaze
33:22 • 2min
The Four Horses Are Erupting With All These Needs
35:06 • 2min
Adopting a Child?
37:11 • 2min
I Love My Irish Scottish Heritage.
39:11 • 2min
A Day Without Rain
40:53 • 2min
A Life Lived in Common
43:04 • 2min
The Wildest Place I've Ever Been
45:20 • 3min
I Love Stuenville, I Love It.
47:50 • 1min
I've Moved About Ten Times, Right?
49:16 • 2min
The Body That I Teach Is Humanity, One, O, One
51:25 • 2min
How Long Is It Before People Are Missionaries in the Mediverse?
53:14 • 2min
Is There a Better Platform Than Other Platforms?
55:01 • 2min
Are We Engaging With Christ Really?
57:25 • 3min
You Can't Budos Your Way Into a Vocation
01:00:00 • 2min
Is That Hate Speech? Is It a Coward?
01:01:52 • 2min
I'll Tell My Gy What to Tweet
01:03:28 • 5min
Exodus 21
01:08:39 • 4min
Lastword Is a Catholic Crossword Puzzle
01:12:10 • 3min
I Love Stout or You. Lets Do That
01:14:55 • 2min
The Irish Pub Experience
01:16:47 • 3min
Is That Where Mountain Dick Ansro Was?
01:19:17 • 2min
The Ritual of Smoking Pipes
01:20:50 • 2min
Lord of the Rings
01:22:29 • 2min
The Runsom's Inferno - A Little Pub, I'm Dante's Divine Comedy
01:24:32 • 2min
Is It a Rebuke of One of My Isilics?
01:26:46 • 2min
I've Always Loved Him
01:29:15 • 2min
A Man for All Seasons
01:30:50 • 2min
The Fortnight Game
01:33:13 • 2min
E Books Haven't Taken Off in the Same Way That CDS Have
01:34:53 • 2min
The Audio Book Industry Hasn't Taken Off in the Same Way That People Are Buying Paper Books
01:36:41 • 2min
How to Read a Book on a Kindle
01:38:18 • 2min
I'd Be No Better Than Them
01:40:04 • 2min
Do You Have the Courage to Slow Down?
01:41:50 • 2min
Get Rid of the Smart Phone
01:43:27 • 2min
I Want More Freedom
01:45:36 • 2min
You Left No Clock Othe Walls?
01:47:48 • 5min
The Depressing, but They Can Be Rekindled.
01:53:14 • 2min
Dad, Can You Cut Your Tongue With a Single Leaf?
01:54:45 • 3min
The Philosophy of the Smooth
01:58:10 • 5min
Is the Smart Phone a Symptom of Depression?
02:03:24 • 2min
Death and Its Effects
02:05:40 • 1min
Isn't It Awsome?
02:07:10 • 4min
The Good Catholic Dad
02:11:14 • 2min
Do You Do Well Onon Lack of So Little Sleep?
02:13:07 • 3min
You Need Less Sleep as You Get Older
02:15:40 • 2min
Is There a Ternal Dialogue?
02:17:17 • 2min
How I Met Rebecca, a Missionary
02:18:49 • 4min
A Lee Jeffreys Lost Angels
02:22:55 • 2min
You Can't Smell or Swear at You, I'm Sorry.
02:24:52 • 3min
I'll Drink Water Out of a Whisky Glass
02:28:14 • 4min
Look Up Is a Great Line in Luke's Gospel, Look Up
02:31:53 • 2min
Theology of the Body Conference
02:33:40 • 2min
The Second's Visionist Is at Home Coming
02:35:50 • 3min
Only for to Day, I Will Live Only to Day
02:38:32 • 3min
Matt chats with The Theology of the Body Institute's Bill Donaghy about their Catholic faith, the meaning of life, and their shared love of Tolkien.
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