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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: A Spiteful Marriage, a New Enemy, and a Watery End - Aldarion and Erendis - Part 6
Description: Michael and I talk about “The Further Course of the Narrative” in Aldarion and Erendis. Tolkien made some notes about where the story would go, but at times they’re contradictory, and there’s no cohesive plot to speak of. What it is, though, is a glimpse into how Tolkien crafted his world, how there was no cohesive outline but times when his mind was simply driven to write the ideas that came to him.
We look at:
* How Tolkien wrote this way
* Ancalime’s family life–with her parents and husband
* Erendis and how, in a wa...