{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Shire Reckoning","title":"Ol' Blue Jacket Is Back","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/eed708d8\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4302,"description":"This week, in an extra-length episode of Shire Reckoning, we dive into the riddle of Tom Bombadil. Who and what is Tom? How do we understand his unique qualities from the text? How does he fit with the cosmology that Tolkien presents to us?\nShow Notes\nPeg Wooden Dolls\nAnd his feet are faster -- Old Tom's Trochees (FR 1.viii.142) (Tom Hillman)\nThe Bodley Medal\nIs it a critical mineral or a Tolkien invention? (The Guardian)\nTolkien Fanfiction Survey\nImagining 'Britain': Decolonising Tolkien et al\nLothlórien: Gendered Spaces, Cartographic Nominalism, and Galadriel’s Queerness (Kampmann Walther)\nThe Bright Sword and its Sharpness: Swords, Symbolism, and Medievalism in The Lord of the Rings (Gavin S. Davis)\nGavin the Medievalist (YouTube)\nClose Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant)\nShire Reckoning is a Next Word production. For bonus episodes and to support the show, visit Patreon.com/NextWord.\nFollow @ShireReckoningPod on YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram.\nMusic by Corvus from Pixabay.  ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rMRKnefapIaCInOYyj_KFX4lRkbDFXWRX7ga8hthpW8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZGUx/NDk2MGMwYWI4OGNh/ZGUyOWE3NGE1MGRl/N2VkNC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}