Have Yourself a Lord of the Rings Christmas Movie Marathon

About this episode

The episode discusses the connection between The Lord of the Rings and Christmas, featuring insights from guests Nick Polk and Dr. Craig Boyd.

I hope that no matter where you are in life, you have been able to enjoy the holiday season by eating good food, spending time with friends and family, or at least getting some rest. If the holidays don’t tend to provide comfort, then you can escape and take shelter in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy with Nick Polk from Tolkien Pop! as well as Tolkien Scholar Dr. Craig Boyd! As we enter the eye of the storm that is the holiday season, we will kick off our run of Christmas movies with The Lord of the Rings (the extended editions, of course). Because, in fact, The Lord of the Rings are Christmas movies. The Fellowship is led by a supernatural man with a white beard, the company departs from Rivendell to begin their quest on December 25th (Christmas Day), and there are plenty of Elves to go around! To solidify the argument even further, Tolkien wrote his children Letters from Father Christmas (Santa Claus) every year during the Christmas season in their adolescence. In these letters, Tolkien told of Santa and his elves fighting off a goblin army. We even see glimpses of Tolkien’s invented Elvish language script in the letters. The legendarium was partly developed in and through…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Tripp Fuller

Guests: Nick Polk, Dr. Craig Boyd

Topics covered

• Christmas movies
• The Lord of the Rings
• Tolkien
• holiday season
• film analysis

Keywords

• Lord of the Rings
• Christmas movies
• Tolkien
• holiday season
• film marathon

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Lord of the Rings, Letters from Father Christmas

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