Podcast Interview Regarding my new Tolkien Book! Christian Nerds Unite

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Check out the podcast interview regarding my new book Middle-earth Lore Tolkiens Legends Revealed with Christian Nerds Unite Host Ricky Pope

[Michael Wilson]

Dear Mr. Smith,
very nice interview; I learned a lot of Tolkien from it.I like your take about the legendary portrayal of the creatures of the first age. The exaggerating of the power of the army of the dead and how it would have been useful in the assault on Mordor; Gimly expressed the same opinion in the movie! Also, on the "allegory" angle: he expressly wanted to deny that it was an allegory on W.W.II. I recall that Tolkien also did not like Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, as he thought it was too "preachy" i.e. Too explicitly Christian and got away too much from allegorical concept.
On "Divergent"; I read the first two books; the first one was very good as a story and held my interest; the second kind of meandered too much; and I only read reviews of the third one, which most fans panned as not really being cohesive with the original premise of the book.
I'm surprised how young you are and that you are not smoking a pipe, and sending smoke rings through each other; weren't dressed in Grey either....
I hope other members will listen to this as it is very enjoyable.