The Legendarium

After a year and a half away, The Legendarium is back on the microphones.

Craig is joined by Panda, Little Red Book, Kyptan, and Cesky from The Legendarium Green Team for a loose, question-driven reunion episode featuring recommendations, old podcast memories, friendship, burnout, favorite episodes, terrible reviews, crickets at Mariners games, and the fate of a never-to-be-released Wind and Truth episode.

Along the way, the crew talks about how The Legendarium has shaped friendships over the years, books that were more fun to discuss than read, series they’ve changed their minds about, and some of the episodes they’re proudest to have made.

And no, this isn’t goodbye.

If you’ve missed the camaraderie and book discussions of The Legendarium, make sure you’re also listening to The Legendarium Green Team, where the conversation has very much continued.

Links & References

The Legendarium Green Team

Books, games, and series mentioned

• MIO: Memories in Orbit
• Robert Jackson Bennett’s Ana Dolabra mysteries
• Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series
• Mark Lawrence’s Library Trilogy / The Book That Broke the World
• Susanna Clarke — Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• H.G. Wells — The Time Machine
• Robin Hobb — The Farseer Trilogy
• Iain M. Banks — the Culture novels
• N.K. Jemisin — The Broken Earth Trilogy
• J.R.R. Tolkien — Leaf by Niggle
• Terry Brooks — Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
• Matthew Woodring Stover — Heroes Die / The Acts of Caine
• Brandon Sanderson — Wind and Truth

Legendarium episodes referenced

• #46. The Time Machine
• #204. Assassin's Apprentice
• #370. The Blade Itself
• #292. The Fifth Season
• LotR Summary Poems (VIDEO)
• #420. Tolkien & Beowulf with Tom Shippey
• #181. Leaf by Niggle
• #308. Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
• #352. Heroes Die (ft. Scott Lynch)

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Thanks to everyone who submitted questions on Discord—and thanks for still being here.

The original Legendarium feed isn’t disappearing, and Episode 442 isn’t a farewell. What comes next may look a little different: occasional group episodes, Author’s Shelf conversations, solo episodes, or whatever else sounds interesting enough to get Craig back behind a microphone.

Until next time.

Martha Wells stops by for another installment of The Author's Shelf. Together, she and Craig discuss The Tiger's Daughter, the 2017 novel by K. Arsenault Rivera.

 

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Author Katie Hallahan drops by for a conversation with Craig about her experience going from game designer to author. What does she value in fiction and storytelling, and how did that impact both areas of her professional life?

 

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Ryan, Todd, and Craig reunite for a discussion about Todd's experience with the Wheel of Time. And because they came with a real purpose in mind, of course you know that they won't stick to that at all. Buckle up for Rings of Power, adaptations, Star Wars, and pretty much anything else that crosses their distractible little minds.

 

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This episode was originally published on June 8, 2020

 

Craig, Ryan, and Megan reunite for the final part of the Lord of the Rings. Well, except for the appendices, and there will be an episode on that as well, it turns out. Anyway, for this one, they unlock the real meaning behind the Field of Cormallen scene, discuss why Frodo couldn't be the one who destroyed the Ring, and get one more verse recap from Craig.

 

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MUSIC: "Adventure Time" and "The Seven Seas" courtesy of https://www.philter.no/

Daniel Greene joins Craig and Ryan for this installment of the Author's Shelf series. Daniel selected Mort, the fourth installment in the Discworld series. Why did he select it? Actually, Daniel isn't quite sure, and he and the guys spend an hour trying to figure that out.

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This episode was originally released on May 3, 2020

 

Ryan, Megan, and Professor Craig (whose elbow patches are back from the shop and in better shape than ever) tackle book 5 of The Lord of the Rings. There are battles and ghosts and pirates and dramatic suicides, among many other exciting things, so Craig kicks off the discussion with ... 5 minutes about word order in the hobbits' speech. Riveting stuff, rest assured.

 

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This episode was originally published on April 14, 2020

 

Craig, Ryan, and Megan reunite remotely for the next installment of their Lord of the Rings series of podcasts. Up today, Book 4, or the latter half of The Two Towers. In these ten chapters, we follow Frodo, Sam, and Gollum through the Emyn Muil, the Dead Marshes, Ithilien, and Shelob's Lair. The panelists will discuss the split nature of the narrative, Sam's place in the reader's experience, and why Gollum's final betrayal is possibly Tolkien's best writing in all of The Lord of the Rings.

 

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MUSIC: "Adventure Time" and "The Seven Seas" courtesy of https://www.philter.no/

In this episode, author James Kennedy stops by to chat with Craig about predestination in speculative fiction. He's got four basic categories of determinism, and they walk through each, with a fine-toothed, good-humored comb.

Originally released on August 22, 2022

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And his new book, Dare to Know

 

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Originally published January 11, 2015.

Craig and Ryan tackle their first game of Dungeons and Dragons and they are natural....ly poor at figuring it out at the start. Join the Legendarium crew at HaJoMaJe games for the abbreviated adventure into never winter and the quest for the best 401k option available to adventurers.