By-the-Bywater
@bythebywater.bsky.social
By-the-Bywater is a monthly #Tolkien podcast hosted by @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social, @schwindter.bsky.social and @nedraggett.bsky.social -- thanks for listening! Catch up with all our episodes at megaphonic.fm/bythebywater
A little extra something from one of us if you're so inclined. New BtB episode will be out on September 7th.
Ned Raggett@nedraggett.bsky.social · 16h agoOkay the weekly music thoughts this week is something new: an interview, specifically an audio release with transcript! This *might* yet turn into a new running project. Anyway: I chatted with @aoffitzer.bsky.social about his site encoreconcerts.fm, which lets you log shows you've seen over time.
Potatoes were introduced to Europe in the 16th century, which means that if Lord of the Rings is taken in its intended role as a mythological history thereof, they did not have potatoes at the time. So whatever was boiled, mashed, or stuck in a stew, it was not what we call a potato. In this essay
And that's how we make sure you're listening. Maybe.
🌶️👼🏻😈 dubdobdee 😈👼🏻🌶️@dubdobdee.bsky.social · last wk.chrome casting by-the-bywater #89 onto my TV & @nedraggett.bsky.social just BELLOWS at me 🤯 I shd invent some gizmo which ensures every device & broadcast hits my ears at the same volume tech-achievement level: impossible
When sports, music, Philadelphia and Tolkien intersect (and thanks for the kind words!)
The Thread Derailer@tompain.bsky.social · last wk.just need to comment the interaction here of one of my pocket friends from the TP slack and one of the hosts of my favorite Tolkien podcast is wild for me rn
A Bill the Pony black metal concept album. Of course.
Onward, by Lammoth
9 track album
lammothofficial.bandcamp.com
Our own @schwindter.bsky.social will be on this panel today, so if you can, watch along! 4:30 Pacific Time, 7:30 Eastern.
Tobias Carroll@tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 3w agoTuesday! I'll be hosting an online panel on literary podcasts for @bookcritics.bsky.social -- free to attend, and registration is at the link below. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I'll also note here that the 4K remasters of these looked...not so good, shall we say. Sit on the gold Bluray box set of the extended editions if you have it.
KootenayRubyGirl@kootenaygirl.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is why I still like hard copies of my fave things. Google removes access to legally bought Lord Of The Rings movies | Film Stories share.google/6ALf12PBirNy...
Meantime, keep an ear out for this as well!
Tobias Carroll@tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 4w agoLater this month, I'll be moderating a @bookcritics.bsky.social panel on literary podcasts, featuring people from Otherppl, @bythebywater.bsky.social, Limousine, One Bright Book, and Reading Writers! Register here... us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
New episode is up! This time around we talk about one of the most well known creative works created by #Tolkien -- his invented writing systems, most famously the Tengwar and the Cirth. Art as always from @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social though this time he delved into his past...
89. Apologies To Any Saxons That May Be Listening. | By-The-Bywater
On Tolkien’s invented writing systems.
megaphonic.fm
This thread and responses goes places in some amazing ways. bsky.app/profile/vitu...
Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4w agoIf you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …
All of a sudden we are pro this behavior.
Lee Knox Ostertag@leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · last mo.*standing up on the plane* okay so the first thing you need to consider when interrogating if Frodo and Sam from Lord of the Rings are an example of romantic love is to understand Tolkien's context; what did same sex love mean to an academic and a veteran of world war one in the middle of the 20th c
We are, BTW, aware of the various reports and things about the third series of a certain adaptation. All too aware, you could argue. Next episode records Sunday...
So my @bythebywater.bsky.social cohost @schwindter.bsky.social and her husband @sssparkers.bsky.social have their first trailer out for their forthcoming documentary about American independent movie theaters. Follow the Instagram for more updates! Attn @kcfennessy.bsky.social et al
"Steve"@sssparkers.bsky.social · last mo.First teaser trailer just dropped! youtu.be/66hTXnRe-fU
This is right and proper. Happy birthday indeed to one of my @bythebywater.bsky.social cohosts, a great talent and character all around. And well deserving of a from scratch cake frosting!
your friend oriana@schwindter.bsky.social · last mo.steve made me a cake for my birthday and made the frosting FROM SCRATCH, which is all i've ever wanted
There's been a lot of random Tolkien discourse and adaptation news this week and honestly our collective response has been a kind of head-shaking 'what.'
There's been a lot of random Tolkien discourse and adaptation news this week and honestly our collective response has been a kind of head-shaking 'what.'
Thrilling.
IGN@ign.com · 2mo agoElijah Wood and Ian McKellen will return as Frodo and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum — more than 25 years on from when Fellowship of the Ring released, and now director Andy Serkis has said some level of digital de-aging will be used. https://bit.ly/4fxOKI3
