Episode 30: Endurance in Hope - Nienna

Episode Summary

As we bid farewell to 2020 and reflect on the trials and losses of the year, we open the new year with a discussion of Nienna, the valar of Grief and Sorrow, so we might "learn pity, and endurance in hope.”

Citations

• Tolkien, J.R.R. Morgoth’s Ring. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993.

• Larsen, Kristine. “The Power of Pity and Tears: The Evolution of Nienna in the Legendarium.” Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan. Mythopoeic Press, 2015, pp. 189- 203

• Episode produced by James Pierson.

Episode URL

https://athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-30-endurance-in-hope-nienna