Episode 31: The Compassion of the Valar

Episode Summary

In this episode we discuss the origins and nature of the Valar and how their individual natures necessarily informs their thought and worldviews in much deeper ways than the Children.

Citations

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

• Rutledge, A. A. (2012). “Justice is not Healing”: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Pauline Constructs in “Finwë and Míriel”. Tolkien Studies, 9, 59-73.

• Episode produced by James Kaku Pierson.

Episode URL

https://athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-31-the-compassion-of-the-valar