
There And Back Again 2: Confusticated And Bebothered
This week, we meet out hero, our wizard, and many, many dwarves. Welcome to the first chapter of The Hobbit! For the slides which accompany this lecture, click here; for the complete series schedule, click here! Download the mp3 here, subscribe on iTunes, on YouTube or via RSS! Show notes: Support Point North on Patreon! If you have thoughts on this episode, get in touch! Follow Point North on Twitter, like on Facebook, or send email to pointnorthmedia@gmail.com. There And Back Again is a Point North Media production by Alastair Stephens, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.
20 Jan 2017
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There And Back Again 4: Elves and Goblins
This week, Bilbo reaches Rivendell and delves beneath the Misty Mountains in the third and fourth chapters of The Hobbit! For the slides which accompany this lecture, click here; for the complete series schedule, click here! Download the mp3 here, subscribe on iTunes, on YouTube or via RSS! Show notes: Support Point North on Patreon! On Fairy Stories, JRR Tolkien If you have thoughts on this episode, get in touch! Follow Point North on Twitter, like on Facebook, or send email to pointnorthmedia@gmail.com. There And Back Again is a Point North Media production by Alastair Stephens, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.
3 Feb 2017
Rank #2
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There And Back Again 34: The Breaking Of The Fellowship
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There And Back Again 19: Black Riders
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26 May 2017
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