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Episode 20: Dreams of Myth and Past

Episode Summary

We're traveling through time and dreams into the origins of Númenor as we discuss Tolkien's famous bargain with CS Lewis and his time travel stories of The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers.

Episode Notes

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Episode 20 was produced by James Pierson. He can be found on Twitter @jpierson

References

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Sources

• Tolkien, J.R.R. The Notion Club Papers. Sauron Defeated (The History of Middle-earth Volume 9), edited by Christopher Tolkien, Harper Collins, London, 1992.
• Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lost Road. The Lost Road and Other Writings (The History of Middle-Earth Volume 5), edited by Christopher Tolkien, Harper Collins, re-issue edition 2002.Flieger, Verlyn. “’The Lost Road’ and ‘The Notion Club Papers’: Myth, History, and Time-travel.” A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Stuart D. Lee, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2014, pp. 161-172.