131. The Weirdest Chapter in Middle-earth (with dancing bears!?) : The Hobbit #19

With talking animals, animals serving food and dancing bears, this may just be the oddest chapter in all of Middle-earth! It kinda feels like it just doesn’t fit. We explore why the animals walk and talk, and how Tolkien had no problem with dancing bears, even adding them later to even more mythology of Middle-earth!

This week we look at:

CS Lewis’s Advice that shaped The Lord of the Rings Gandalf and Beorn’s Dark Humour Is Beorn a Vegetarian Beorn’s Big Bear Rave The history of Dancing Bears of Númenor The Meaning of the Dwarves “wind” song Dr. Doolittle and JRR Tolkien

In our extended episode (available for our members) we talk about:

How to retcon (retroactively connect) Beorn into Middle-earth What would a Beorn TV show look like (and why it SHOULD be made!)

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