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The Tolkien Experience Podcast

The Tolkien Experience Podcast (TEP) is an attempt to bring the fan and scholarly communities together around our shared passion: the works of J.R.R. Tolkien! Each episode features a notable scholar or member of the fan community sharing their responses to the original Tolkien Experience Project questions.

The podcast is only possible because of our supporters and patrons. Please consider supporting the us on Patreon!

Since 2018, Luke Shelton's Tolkien Experience Project has been collecting stories from scholars and fans. Now, I have partnered with Dr. Sara Brown and Sarah Westvik to create the TEP!

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Jul 31, 2020

William (Bill) Fliss is an archivist in the Special Collections and University Archives of the Raynor Memorial Libraries of Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Bill is in charge of Tolkien's manuscripts for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and a couple other short stories by Tolkien. He has started a...


Jul 17, 2020

We are very excited to have the chance to speak with Mary Clay Watt for this week's episode!

Mary Clay is the creator and host of the Podcast That's What I'm Tolkien About, where she is reading her way through Tolkien's works. She has finally made it to Mount Doom as of our recording, so go listen as she finishes...


Jul 3, 2020

For this week's episode, we are very excited to have Jeremy Edmonds, the creator of Tolkienguide.com!

The hosts of the podcast met Jeremy at Tolkien2019, and became fast friends with many shared interests, especially a love of Tolkien's work. His phenomenal website has been going for more than a decade and a half! There...