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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: 131. The Weirdest Chapter in Middle-earth (with dancing bears!?) : The Hobbit #19
Description: With talking animals, animals serving food and dancing bears, this may just be the oddest chapter in all of Middle-earth! It kinda feels like it just doesn’t fit. We explore why the animals walk and talk, and how Tolkien had no problem with dancing bears, even adding them later to even more mythology of Middle-earth!
This week we look at:
CS Lewis’s Advice that shaped The Lord of the Rings
Gandalf and Beorn’s Dark Humour
Is Beorn a Vegetarian
Beorn’s Big Bear Rave
The history of Dancing Bears of Númenor
The Meaning o...