Season 1

“Life was a game, and you never knew when the tides reversed, when the coin of fate changed its course, declared its contrary and life-altering outlooks.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your...

“The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.” Thank you for checking out our …

“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath. It was the vow of the druskelle to Fjerda. And now it was Matthias’ promise to her.” Thank you for checking out our …

“A figure stood at the far end, cloaked in black and beckoning him.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so you don't miss an episode! In addition to this podcast, …

“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so you don't miss …

“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to …

"An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day!" Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so you don't …

“Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!" Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so you don't miss an episode! In addition to this podcast, we r...

“Very puffed he was, when he got to Bywater just on the stroke of eleven, and found he had come without a pocket-handkerchief!” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so …

“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking stick.” Thank you …

"Eru Ilúvatar signaling the Music of the Ainur. Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Ilúvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show …

"The lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon …

"And straightaway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains." Thank you for …

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so you don't miss an …

“For of us is required a blind trust, and a hope without assurance, knowing not what lies before us in a little while.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so …

“‘Many are the strange chances of the world,’ said Mithrandir, ‘and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast...

“Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so you don't miss an episode! In addition to this …

"Ice fell like rain. I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin. Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and …

"From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with …

"Day is ended, dim my eyes, but journey long before me lies. Farewell, friends! I hear the call. The ship's beside the stony wall. Foam is white and waves are grey; beyond the sunset leads my way. Foam is salt, …

"Gawain gripped his axe and gathered it on high, Advanced the left foot before him on the ground, And slashed swiftly down on the exposed part, So that the sharp blade sheared through, shattering the bones, Sank deep in the …

“The farmer went about with a high step, and luck smiled on him. The autumn and early winter work went well. All seemed set fair, until the dragon came.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe …

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to …

“Only there, where virtue sits as judge, are heroes born.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so you don't miss an episode! In addition to this podcast, we run a …

“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But …

“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to subscribe with your favorite podcast app so you don't …

“There was one giant in particular, larger and more stupid than his fellows. I find no mention of his name in the histories, but it does not matter. He was very large, his walking stick was like a tree, and …

“Dacă soața lui Húrin poate să plece împotriva tuturor sfaturilor pentru că o cheamă glasul sângelui, la fel poate și fiica lui Húrin. Mi-ai dat numele de Bocirea, numai că nu voiesc a jeli de una singură după tată, după …

“For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marvelling that they gave life so freely of which they had on earth so little.” Thank you for checking out our podcast. Be sure to …

“What then was this hope, if you know?’ Finrod asked. ‘They say,’ answered Andreth: ‘they say that the One will himself enter into Arda, and heal Men and all the Marring from the beginning to the end.” Thank you for …

"Wild rode the wind though the West country. Banners were blowing, black was the raven they bore as blazon. Blaring of trumpets, neighing of horses, gnashing of armour, in the hoar hollows of the hills echoed." Thank you for ...

“For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will have as weregild for …

“And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the …

"Sing all ye joyful, now sing all together! The wind’s in the tree-top, the wind’s in the heather; The stars are in blossom, the moon is in flower, And bright are the windows of Night in her tower." In addition …

"Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardeners be in high honor." In addition to this podcast, we run a tape label! Please check it out: https://voicesoftheainur.bandcamp.com/merch Follow us on Inst...

"It was not called the Old Forest without reason, for it was indeed ancient, a survivor of vast forgotten woods; and in it there lived yet, ageing no quicker than the hills, the fathers of the fathers of trees, remembering …

"He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only …

"Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter." In addition to this podcast, we run a tape label! Please check it out: https://voicesoftheainur.bandcamp.co...

“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.” In addition to this podcast, we run a tape label! Please check it out: https://voicesoftheainur.bandcamp.com/merch Follow us o...

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” In addition to this podcast, …

"This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes …

"Kings die, realms fall, but magic endures." In addition to this podcast, we run a tape label! Please check it out: https://voicesoftheainur.bandcamp.com/merch Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/voicesoftheainu...

“Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not ...

"When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening." In addition to this podcast, we run a tape label! Please check it out: https://voicesoftheainur....

"So after Dagor Bragollach you know what’s coming. You’ve been there before. This time, at least, you have a plan. You build a secret refuge down the coast, as somewhere to run to when the orcs arrive at your gate …

"And straightaway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains. Ride now, ride …

“'I have come,' he said. 'But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!' And suddenly, as he set it on his finger, he vanished from …

"I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind …

"Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow, And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree I will lie, And let …

"Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In …