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Middle-earth Talk Radio Show #4
Recorded October 26th, 2008.

Topics covered include:

• Features Tolkien-related/inspired Music: Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore.
• Sale of Autographed "The Hobbit"
• Historical ties and discussions on Inns and Taverns
• Ye Olde Fighting Cocks (one of) the oldest Inns in England (11th/9th Century)
• Where in the Wild is Gildor Inglorian
• A Tolkien Joke
• Soliciting for questions from listeners for upcoming shows.
• Rivendell Bicycle Works "Bombadil" Mountain Bike

Related Links:

• http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/...351153670.html
• http://www.canada.com/victoriatimesc...397d287f0c&p=2
• http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitt.../s_594363.html
• http://www.yeoldefightingcocks.com/
• Where in the wild is Gildor Inglorion?
• http://www.bikeradar.com/news/articl...bombadil-19039

On a related note, we recorded what we think is the 6th episode last night (however, since there is no Number 6 this will be billed as Episode 7 -- Xena fans will appreciate that).

If you have not recently visited the front page of Tolkien Studies on the Web, you may want to do so. I've embedded a YouTube video titled "In Search of Tolkien". It appears to be an excerpt from a broadcast recorded several years ago (I cannot ascertain the IPR status of the video).

I'd like to embed more videos as I find them (and find the time to do so). I'll eventually create a new section, a video gallery, as I begin swapping out featured videos.

I've begun embedding videos across the Xenite.Org network. Leading up the United States elections I featured videos encouraging Americans to vote (we did vote in very impressive numbers). Now I'll be shifting my focus to science fiction-related topics, but the Tolkien Studies on the Web site should feature only videos about Tolkien (or maybe "Beowulf" and other well-documented influences on Tolkien's work).

Just click on the "Tolkien-Studies.com" link in the upper left-hand corner of this page to visit this site's home page.

Middle-earth Talk Radio - Show 3 - October 19th, 2008 - MP3

Music: Dan Barliman's Jig by The Fellowship with Jon Anderson from the
album "In Elven Lands"

Topics covered:
* Tolkien Enterprises and Hobbit domains
* General discussion on Intellectual Property, with Tolkien-related
topics
* Intellectual Property Czar and Possible consequences to Tolkien Fans
* Rolozo Tolkien Gallery
* BBC issuing audio books for The Hobbit, LotR, and Tales from the
Perilous Realm, and re-issuing it's dramatization of LotR broadcast
(including Ian Holm as Frodo).
* Jon Anderson (from the band Yes), He has done Tolkien-inspired music
* Middle-earth Weekend in Birmingham
Download this audio file in MP3 format (Duration: 58:52, filesize:67.4
MB) at:

http://www.middle-earthradio.com/