The Legendarium exists primarily as a book club for fantasy and sci-fi, both the classics and the new classics.Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, and more.
Episodes
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Craig is joined by author Maram Taibah to discuss the assertion, "Great art has an age floor but no age ceiling." They get into contextual issues, content issues, and what place YA fiction has to play in this discussion. They also talk about Maram's book, Weathernose, and Craig gets an education on "children's steampunk."
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Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Megan and Kenn are joined by Todd (AND TODD'S F****** BIRDS) on this episode to further discuss Small Favor, the tenth book in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, as well as the associated novelette The Warrior.
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Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 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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Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
The original Blue Team is back! Todd, Kenn, and Megan worked around their social distancing requirements and came together over the interwebs to discuss Small Favor, book 10 in Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. If there's a pool out there on when Todd would cry (we're way past if), then get out your stopwatches.
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Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
What quarantine? Oh, THAT quarantine. Todd, Stephanie, and Kenn wanted--no, needed to talk about the third installment in The Expanse, but had to rely on some remote software to do it. And it will take more than crappy sound quality and missing 10-minute chunk of audio to stop our intrepid trio. (In other words: forgive us, we tried.)
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Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
The Ladies of the Legendarium are back! This time they take on a listener suggestion: Uprooted, by Naomi Novik. Stephanie, Megan, and Kate all read the book for the first time in preparation for this episode, so they've got some fresh takes for you. They also address some listener questions and comments to round things out.
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Friday Mar 20, 2020
Friday Mar 20, 2020
On this return to the "weekender" episodes, Craig is joined by Travis from The Fantasy Inn for a two-parter. In this episode, we talk reminisce about their own entry points into fantasy, both as young readers and again as adults. What is it about certain books that sucks us into a genre and won't let us go? And does that thing change as we age? Can lightning still strike as an adult, or does our entry point need to happen earlier? Let us know what you think by commenting on Reddit, Discord, Twitter, etc.
And stick around for part 2, which will be published on 3/24 on the Fantasy Inn podcast. In that episode we extend the discussion into what we think are the best books, and the best ways, to introduce someone to the fantasy genre. Go subscribe to hear more.
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Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Craig, Ryan, and Megan (no Kyle today) talk about book 3 of The Lord of the Rings, being the first half of The Two Towers.They take on the entrelacement writing technique Tolkien employs, Aragorn's character arc (yep, he has one!), and the nature of the palantiri. Craig is of course back with his recap poem, but Megan decides to one up him by singing on this episode. Trigger warning.
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Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Todd, Stephanie, and Kenn are back with another installment of their series of episodes discussing James S.A. Corey's The Expanse. As usual, Todd threatens to cry a lot and Kenn likes the punchin' stuff, but Stephanie digs deep and gives us a brand new topic: licorice. Yeah, it's one of those episodes. Enjoy!
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Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Craig, Ryan, Megan, and Kyle discuss the second book in The Lord of the Rings--or to put it another way, the second half of The Fellowship of the Ring. They get into lots of listener questions, like whether the Rivendell chapters are too long, whether balrogs should have wings, whether the fellowship sufficiently mourns Gandalf, and much, much more. Enjoy!
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