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By-The-Bywater: A Podcast about All Things J.R.R. Tolkien

Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 86 episodes

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About this podcast

All things J.R.R. Tolkien: his work, his inspirations and impact, creative interpretations in other media, languages, lore, ripoffs, parodies, anything we think is interesting!

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It Does Make Sense If You're Not A Complete Idiot, GUY!

Jun 1, 202655mEp. 870

Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Jared’s choice of topic: the late 14th century Middle English poem Pearl. Surviving solely in the same manuscript as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and presumed to be by the same anonymo

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She Doesn’t Like His Vibe

May 4, 202657mEp. 860

Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana’s choice of topic: Fëanor and his s—head sons. (We get a little spicy in this episode.) One of the original characters of Tolkien’s legendarium right from the days of The Book of L

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Straightwashed Gandalf

Apr 6, 20261h 2mEp. 850

Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned’s choice of topic: Hobitit, the 1993 Finnish TV miniseries adapting The Lord of the Rings. Broadcast over nine half-hour episodes, Hobitit grew out of a live stage adaptation of Tolki

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I’m Not Going to Stop Editorializing!

Mar 2, 202658mEp. 840

Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Jared’s choice of topic: Donald Swann’s song cycle The Road Goes Ever On. A member of the hit comic song duo Flanders and Swann in post-WWII Britain and beyond, including the US, Swann’s

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It’s Important to Have Hobbies You Don’t Monetize

Feb 2, 202656mEp. 830

Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana’s choice of topic: warriors. As we all know, one way or another, war has been an ever present part of human societies over the millennia, and so there are warriors, fighters, soldi

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Think of the Drunk Children!

Jan 5, 202654mEp. 820

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: The Bovadium Fragments and Tolkien as environmentalist. Published in November 2025, The Bovadium Fragments are a short, academically-minded collection of comedic obser

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Maybe They’re Too Peasant Or Whatever

Dec 1, 202558mEp. 810

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: the journey. Both The Hobbit and more specifically and thoroughly The Lord of the Rings, referencing quite well established tropes about quests and more, are centere

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What If This Housecat Was Actually Really Big?

Nov 3, 202552mEp. 800

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: Beren and Lúthien. One of what Tolkien considered his three ‘Great Tales’ at the heart of the legendarium material that eventually formed versions of The Silmarilli

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Some People Flip Houses, They Flip Kingdoms

Oct 6, 202552mEp. 790

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: marriage. Tolkien himself was the child of an apparently happy marriage, though one that met with tragedy when first his father and then some years later his mother di

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How to Maximize Your Joint Slay

Sep 1, 202555mEp. 780

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: the Inklings. Growing out of an undergraduate discussion group of that name in early 1930s Oxford, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis helped form the initial core of a

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A Mean Girl Nuclear Bomb

Aug 4, 202557mEp. 770

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: dragons. Thanks to the appearance of Smaug in the book that first brought Tolkien to wider fame, dragons haven’t merely been associated with him in general but have

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It Seems Like It Sucks Up There

Jul 7, 202553mEp. 760

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: Arnor and Angmar. Only half-referenced in the Jackson adaptations, the long-gone realms of Arnor and Angmar don’t have much place in the original Lord of the Rings tex

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Obsessive (Complimentary)

Jun 2, 20251h 4mEp. 750

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: The Atlas of Middle-earth, created by Karen Wynn Fonstad. First published in 1981 and then in a revised edition later as more posthumous material was released in The

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You’re Always Left On Read by Manwë!

May 5, 202557mEp. 740

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: monarchy, through the lens of Aragorn as king. It’s an interesting tension throughout Tolkien’s legendarium that while his foundational stories of Middle-earth have

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Don’t Misgender the Eagle!

Apr 7, 20251h 19mEp. 730

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: the 1981 BBC radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. It wasn’t the first time through when it came to a radio version of The Lord of the Rings, even on the BBC itse

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I’m Starting the Pink Umbrella Movement

Mar 3, 202550mEp. 720

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: Lobelia Sackville-Baggins. Introduced casually as a relative of Bilbo’s at the end of The Hobbit – one who Bilbo has a mutual unappreciation society with thanks to s

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This Is Not a Political Podcast

Feb 3, 202553mEp. 710

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: despair and hope. It is a remarkably stupid and cruel time in the world lately, for reasons we need not spell out. (And indeed in the week since we recorded this ep

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It Was Like a Looney Tunes Ham!

Jan 6, 20251h 0mEp. 700

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Ned’s choice of topic: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. Announced three-and-a-half years ago as a fast-tracked theatrical production by Warner Bros., the Kenji Kamiyama-direct

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Trying to Hold On to Something

Dec 2, 202453mEp. 690

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared’s choice of topic: nostalgia. As a formal linguistic and technical term, nostalgia itself is only a few centuries old, but the sense of idealized pasts, ‘things were better then,’ and

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Passive Reference

Nov 4, 202455mEp. 680

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana’s choice of topic: “What feels like Tolkien?” One way that any number of works of art, whether books, most obviously in a fantasy genre, games, visual art or of course dramatic adapta

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