Party like its Monday, Foreyule 1st Shire Reckoning! This month, Stef brings the Hobbit Heat with an episode all about the parties, feast, fêtes and celebrations of the Lord of the Rings, and the inspiration Tolkien drew from the anglo-saxon literature he was, by all accounts, a leading expert in. Beerhalls, Birthday Parties, and Parting Gifts, we cover it all on his seasonally themed episode!
Athrabeth is produced by James Pierson. James can be found on twitter @jpierson
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Lynch, James. The Literary Banquet and the Eucharistic Feast: Tradition in Tolkien
Mythlore Vol. 5, No. 2(18) (Autumn, 1978), pp. 13-14 (2 pages)
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Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26808183
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Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Medieval Academy of America
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2848173
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Pollington, Stephen. The mead-hall community. Journal of Medieval History, Volume 37, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 19-33. Part of special issue “Feasts and Gifts of Food in Medieval Europe: Ritualised Constructions of Hierarchy, Identity and Community” Edited by Lars Kjær, A.J. Watson.
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