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J.R.R. Tolkien | The Quest to Create the World's Greatest Library
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In episode 83, KT wraps up her two part series on fantasy authors and friends with J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series. (In our previous episode, she covered C.S. Lewis) From his service in World War One to his time teaching at Oxford and Cambridge to his amazing world building of Middle Earth, KT takes us through the life of J.R.R. Tolkien--there and back again.
After the break, Laurel takes us on another literary quest, this time following the life of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son, Hernando Colón, and his lifelong pursuit of creating the greatest library in the world.
**Alert! In case you don't have the updated audio, you'll notice a blank space at the beginning of KT's story. This was to correct the pronunciation of the country she mentioned, which is Luh-SOO-too or Luh-SEW-Toe, depending on where you are in the world**
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Mentioned in the Stories:
Part One of the Author Series with C.S. Lewis
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Source Materials--
J.R.R. Tolkien--
Hernando Colón--
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by Edward Wilson-Lee
https://scholarworks.indianapolis.iu.edu/items/74e0df92-1f84-41da-b36c-9fb024baf09e
https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/hernandocolon/home/
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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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