Pete Clark

Fascinating episode! Talking of Kipling, is there a parallel between Christopher and Kim - a boy freely ranging among and accepted by all cultures in India (in fact goes almost anywhere), who gets recruited into the imperial project, and educated, and has to face losing that freedom as he grows.

Whoever did this wasn't koi about it.

C'est tres bon!

Love it!!

They're great books!

A Yorkshire hero.

Looking forward to it!

Fascinating!

They've actually re-built the Oxford to Milton Keynes section but are really dragging their feet on beginning train services...

Wasn't English what happened when Danes tried to learn Anglo-Saxon (and vice versa?)

Lovely art Miriam!

An absolutely top notch chivalric bromance. My wife introduced me to it many years ago. Cracking stuff.

I'm not sure it's a great movie. But it is quite memorable and as I say has an interesting take...

Nice thought! Have you seen the 2007 Beowulf movie? Some interesting parallels between the origin of Grendel in that version, and the origin of the evil aspects of the Upside Down in later series ST...

Loved the geoguessr joke from Freddie this episode.

Not easy when the academics are funny, as they often are!

Un des meilleur presentations sur le sujet de Tolkien, avec chansons!

I'll be there!

Congratulations. Well deserved!!

Usama is a great guy and his cheetah vs. leopard story a classic.

That confused the heck out of me when I was a kid!

Where the ducks play football.

Perhaps he always wondered if the Silmarils were treats which Morgoth was keeping out of reach...

Definitely a time when you need a bigger boat.

See you in the Stables later!

Magicians of Caprona is the only DWJ I actually read as a child - now re-reading it (for the first time since then) before listening to the episode. I'm enjoying it much more this time!

Happy Coming of Age!

The graphic is a short poem called "Travail": I forge in fire and darkness, while my land Still calls me with the voice of my own heart The woods and fields of fair Beleriand - The loom of music, and the hearth of art. My longing wanders, but my flesh is bound In dark and rusty pits to labour long In flowerless hell beneath the wasted ground Bereft of starlight and the Springs of Song. But dare I flee from all my toil and pain By crawling out across the Thirsty Plain? What weapon could I forge to batter down The dungeon-door and win the Iron Crown With hate in my hand - and what would be the cost? Should ever I regain the land I lost?

For the #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday theme of "Labour/Working" here's a short poem I wrote a long time ago. #Tolkien #Silmarillion

Yes I am, so will hopefully see you there?

In my experience it's the conference areas. The accommodation is in lots of different places around the college buildings so there isn't really a separate accommodation area, while all the rooms are pretty close to the areas where the conference is happening.