Beyond the Brandywine

Episode 10 - The Many Faces of Gollum (Part 1)

51 min · 11 mrt 2026
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Hosts Angela and Kelsey take listeners on a romp through the many adaptations of Gollum — from the bizarre 1966 animated Hobbit to 1970s–80s cartoons, the influential 1981 BBC radio portrayal, Soviet and Finnish takes, and fan films like The Hunt for Gollum. Along the way they compare voices, visuals, and interpretations, note influences on later performances (including Andy Serkis), and set up a follow-up episode on the character’s deeper moral and theological meanings.

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Episode 13 - Beyond Smaug: Dragons of Middle-Earth

Everyone knows Smaug — but what if the most important dragon in Middle-earth never appears in The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings? In this episode, Angela and Kelsey travel back to the First Age to meet Glaurung, the Father of Dragons: a fire-breathing, wingless, psychologically terrifying creature who makes Smaug look like a pet lizard. Along the way, they dig into one of Tolkien's great unanswered questions — how did Morgoth actually make dragons? — and trace the full roster of Middle-earth's most fearsome worms, from Glaurung's devastating mind control to the world-shattering Ancalagon the Black. Angela and Kelsey also discuss lesser drakes, dragon‑slayers, and lingering questions — why men, not elves or dwarves, kill dragons and are there still dragons lurking in Middle-earth right now? (Spoiler: probably yes.) Listen now, and discover Tolkien's terrifying, imaginative take on dragons in fantasy.

29 apr 202658 min