Episode 37: The Sundering of the Elves

Episode Summary

This month we're doing a bit of Back to Basics by taking a deep dive into the Sundering of the Elves, with a bonus explainer on all the various Years and Ages, so we can put it all into context. Ever wondered when the heck the Years of the Lamps was? What a Laiquendi is? Look (listen?) no further!

Citations

• Letter 211

• J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar

• J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar: Appendix: The legend of the - Awakening of the Quendi (Cuivienyarna)"

• J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Appendix B: The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves"

• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F, "The Languages and Peoples of the Third Age", "Of the Elves"

• J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor"

• J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Thingol and Melian"

• J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Second Age"

• "The Sundering of the Elves" as mapped in the Silmarillion: https://i.imgur.com/uIVL8ws.png

• The Tolkien Society Seminar has posted the recording from their "Tolkien and Diversity" seminar to YouTube, and you can find all the links on their site here: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2021/07/recordings-of-tolkien-and-diversity-seminar-now-available/

• Today’s episode was produced by James Kaku Pierson.

Episode URL

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