The Legendarium

Book 6, Chapters 4-9. This is it! Our final episode in the LotR series is a doozy, with Larry D Curtis from theonering.net joining us as we discuss the good, the great, and the tear-jerking in the last few chapters. Ryan loves the Scouring of the Shire, Craig thinks that rock he just passed might be an old elf-lord, and Larry thinks the Ring looks decidedly cross-shaped toward the end of the story.

Craig and Ryan wax nostalgic (a whole 2 weeks later) about the inaugural FantasyCon in Salt Lake City. If you were there, come relive it. If you weren't, consider this the first step to getting psyched about next year! A huge thanks to FantasyCon for an awesome weekend.

Book 6, Chapters 1-3Ryan and Craig explore the...excellent?...disappointing?...something...death of the Ring of Power. This episode features Ryan at his most referential and bizarre. And maybe his most awesome.

Book 5, Chapters 6-10: Special guest: Nick Jeter. Ryan and Nick have to endure Craig's lessons on the history and family trees of the Numenoreans, their ancestors, and their descendents. Denethor's despair is deemed decidedly damaging. How does Witch-king die? Well, we're not quite sure, but then Ryan gets it with the help of the All-Powerful Internets.

Book 5, Ch 1-5: Lots of lots of lots of details provided by Tolkien. Any writing is better when you say "ye" instead of "you". The Witch King doesn't know any multi-syllabic words.

Ryan and Craig discuss a few recent Star Wars developments--and nerd out excessively--with returning guest Todd Wente, and newcomer Kenn Johnson.

FantasyCon is on! 4th of July weekend, SLC will play host to what we think sounds like the coolest convention ever. Our guests are Larry D. Curtis and Ashley Turner, both organizers for FantasyCon. They'll tell us all about the panels, celebrities, sword fighting, and world's-largest-dragons that we can expect.

The discussion continues into the realm of the films and we get a few moments of pro prequel arguments.