Silmarillion Sessions: Chapter 7, 8 & 9

About this episode

The episode discusses Fëanor's actions and the narrative bias in The Silmarillion.

We discuss Fëanor (somewhat drunkenly!) in this new podcast, our first for 2023! For those who think Fëanor 'did nothing wrong' this is the podcast for you! We defend the great Elf's actions and discuss the bias of The Silmarillion narrator at this part of the story. But did Tolkien intend us to read his 'Bible' in this way! For answers to these and other questions please join us! Find Reading Tolkien on twitter: @PodReading, and on Substack.

People in this episode

Host: Benjamin Bassett

Topics covered

• Fëanor
• The Silmarillion
• Tolkien's narrative bias
• Elf actions
• literary analysis

Keywords

• Fëanor
• The Silmarillion
• Tolkien
• Elf
• narrator bias
• literary analysis
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Silmarillion

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