Due to being ill I missed Hawke's announcement about Middle-earth Talk Radio Episode 27 going up on the Website. However, we just recorded Episode 28 with our special guest Rehtaeh yesterday so at least I'm making a timely announcement about that one. :)

Here are the episode details:

Middle-earth Talk Radio Episode 27 was recorded on July 12, 2010.

Format: MP3 (192 Kbps constant rate, 44,100 Hz)
Duration: 56 minutes 20 seconds
Filesize: 77.3 MB

Opening Music

The Contemplation

from the demo album The Contemplation

by Rehtaeh

Please note, this piece is from her early demo album.

For much newer, and higher production quality, listen to the previous several Middle-earth Talk radio shows, or listen on Rehtaeh's website, and purcase her albums:

http://www.rehtaehmusic.com

Topics

• Special Guest Rehtaeh (Heather Downing) will be on upcoming show July 18th.
• Ian McKellen marking time until The Hobbit begins
• One Man Lord of the Rings at Woolly Mammoth Theater (of One Man Star Wars Trilogy)
• 2010 Mythopoeic Awards
• More than one Shield Maiden amongst the Riders of Rohan?
• British historian claims to have found King Arthur's round table.
• Tolkien Moot, allowing "garb" this year.
• Rehtaeh will be in Elvish garb at this year's Tolkien Moot
• Any cultures in Tolkien's Middle-earth (and beyond) happen to wear kilts, or any "Scottish"-like cultures?
• Tolkien's "Fall of Arthur" poem, "read and approved" by Professors, but never published?
• Some excerpts read.
• Tolkien also wrote some stories in contemporary settings
• British historian claims to have found King Arthur's round Table. To air on The History Channel July 19th.
• The Dunlendings
• More on Kilts
• "The Uzi Rule"
• Tolkien's reading of Isaac Asimov and other Science Fiction of the time.
• July Inland Empire Tolkien Society Smial Meeting Summary
• Kullervo from Kalavala compared to Turin
• Strong parallels between Turin and Michael Moorcock's Elric (Stormbringer) series.
• The Imp Chamber of Pun-ishment

Middle-earth Talk Radio Episode 28 was recorded on July 18 with special guest Rehtaeh, who will be appearing at Tolkien Moot this year.

Format: MP3 (64 kbps)
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 50 seconds.
Filesize: 38.4 MB (40,240,692 bytes)

Please note, in order to get this online as quickly as possible, this version does NOT yet have any music added. Hawke is working quickly on a fully edited version that will have music at the beginning and end, and snippets of music referred to throughout the show. (MICHAEL'S NOTE: I think Hawke included some stuff that wasn't actually meant for the show. The edited version should be considerably shorter than the "raw" file.)

Topics

• Tolkien Moot Live Broadcast Coming August 13-15.
• Tolkien journal "Silver Leaves" releases articles with cover art by Ted Nasmith, other artwork and poetry, inspired J.R.R. Tolkien.
• Review article of the "Charles Ross" "One Man" "Lord of the Rings"
• Who are the two most mocked Lord of the Rings characters from the Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson movies?
• The fan film "Born of Hope" reviewed by The Macomb Daily
• The Hunt for Gollum (we mistakenly called it the search for Gollum)
• Michael's S.F. Fandom Blog
• Upcoming Oxonmoot
• Peter Jackson meeting with "The Hobbit" movie actors
• Heather discusses her views on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies "vision" and compares to Walt Disney's "Snow White".
• Interview with Rehtaeh (Heather Downing) begins.