The Sillymarillion

If you hear rain and thunder in the background, it's not extra ambience but Paul podcasting in the middle of a thunderstorm because COMMITMENT. Also in this episode, the Fellowship is finally and officially formed! We get a lovely little taste of dwarven history and stick along with us to find out if the hobbits freeze to death. Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teach...

The Council of Elrond! In other words, Group Storytime! In other words, The Board Meeting! In other words, This Could've Been an Email!! We get a lot of backstory, lore drops, and "Gandalf where the fck were you??" via group story time with the council. Also, the beginning of our fellowship is finally formed! Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (t...

Join Tori and Paul as they start Book Two of Fellowship of the Ring with the chapter "Many Meetings" where there are So! Many! Meetings! Tori gleefully freaks out over Elrond and Glorfindel and Paul gives another glorious song rendition of a "Bilbo Baggins Original". Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tales and stories...

What do Vanessa Carlton and carbonated milk have in common? We talk way too long about them both in The Sillymarillion! Join us this week as we talk through the group's travel montage, meet the legendary Glorfindel (again!), and bop to Sam the Bard's original song containing...a boner. Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien'...

Let me see what you have? A knife! NO! Things get a little more dangerous when our dear hobbits lose their ponies and must trek through the marshes of Florida. They ask Aragorn a million questions and we get a beautifully sung ann-thennath of the meeting of Beren and Luthien by Paul. And finally, Frodo's first stabbing!  Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori...

It's the Strider chapter! Come stride (ba dum, tsss) along with us as we finally meet and get some info on that mysterious fellow in the corner of the Prancing Pony. But before we can truly trust him, he needs to prove himself to Sam, the Body Guard-ner (ok ok we're done with the horrid puns). Queer Count: 38! Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer)...

Happy New Year listeners! It's 2023 and we've made it to the Prancing Pony! We start this episode with unfortunate Tom Bombadil sex jokes, meet the infamous Strider in the infamous Prancing Pony, and vibe along to Frodo's impressive open mic performance.  Lesbian Aragorn LOTR Collection   Fellowship of the Ring: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kn7idcVISFppCdemBxOBSfpuiBkoqvsfBgOcZeqL...

Santa kidnapped Molly so she could talk more hobbits with us! In this episode, Paul, Tori, and Molly chat over how Tolkien is really a horror author, start up another conversation on who/what really is Tom Bombadil, and take up Tom's advice to go touch some grass. Happy holidays and new year to you all! Cheers to more adventures together in 2023! Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the fore...

Happy Honda Days! Welcome to Tom Bombadil part 2, Electric Boogaloo. We talk way too long about soup and Hondas and then we dive back into who really is this Tom guy...Is he a god? Is he a spirit? All we know for sure is he is a wife guy. Featuring a special guest, Tori's wife-guy, Steph! Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolki...

Trees to the left, trees to the right, trees above and trees below. But wait! Who's that! Tom Bombadil! Which just leaves Tori with more questions than answers! Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tales and stories. Join us on twitter and tell us if you'd visit the Withywindle Gay Bar.  Twitter: @sillymarillions&nb...

We are still trekking through the Shire! Join Paul and Tori as they read through Chapter 4. A Short Cut to Mushrooms and Chapter 5. A Conspiracy Unmasked, where we cry over Sam's loyalty, gasp over Merry's cleverness, and cheer on Farmer Maggot.  Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tales and stories. Join us on twi...

LOTR ROP SPOILERS! What the heck is Mithril, is the Stranger actually Gandalf, and how about that Sauron reveal?! We dig Erran back up from the mud so they can gush about Numenor and finally catch up and discuss together what we though of The Rings of Power, Season 1! Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tales and storie...

Elves! First Varda mention! Elf Song! Tori is feeling a lot like Sam in this episode. Paul and Tori go through Chapter 3, Three is Company where Frodo, Sam, and Pippin start their trek to "Buckland" and run into quite the cast of characters on their way. Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tales and stories. Join us on...

Incoming ring lore dump! After a brief gush sesh over our thoughts on the latest Rings of Power episode, we dive into Chapter Two of Fellowship of the Ring: The Shadow of the Past! Which essentially, is Gandalf giving Frodo backstory on the ring(s), both singular and plural, a lesson on morality, and a look into how truly powerful and dangerous this ring Frodo now possesses can be...Good luck, bud...

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"Then Thursday, September the 22nd, actually dawned. The sun got up, the clouds vanished, flags were unfurled and the fun began."  Did you know there are people on this earth who still have not read The Lord of the Rings? That number is about to go down by one as Paul finally introduces Tori to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring! We dive into the prologue "Concerning Hobbits" a...

CW/TW: slight mention of rape in regards to fanfic tags and drug addiction in comparison to the Arkenstone.  The dragon is defeated within the first 10 minutes, what more could this movie be about?! Oh...that's right. Join Paul and Tori as they watch the last installment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit series: Battle of Five Armies. Tori watches as 17 armies join the battle, Sauron gets evicted...

Forget Finding Nemo, this is Finding Thrain! Tori and Paul watch the next installment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. To no one's surprise, Tori screams about elves and falls in love with Thranduil while Paul dubs the Master and Alfrid as wastes of space.  Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tal...

Paul and Tori watch the first installment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey! Tori gleefully is introduced to dwarf culture, confusedly introduced to Radagast and darling Sebastian, and Paul reminds everyone that Thorin is indeed, Daddy.   Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tales and stories...

Join Paul and Tori as they discuss their thoughts and feelings on 1977 Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit! They discuss Elrond's drip, creating their own version of Laketown, Tori learns "burgle" is an actual word, and may never recover from Dwalin and Balin's character design.   Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tale...

Bonus Podcast! The Ringpops of Power just dropped a teaser trailer where we get characters, dialogue, dope scenery, trees and boats, songs, and METEOR SAURON?! We pull our favorite reoccurring guest Erran back to torment Paul and discuss all the excitement revealed in this new trailer! Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien'...

We've reached the final chapters of The Hobbit! In which, Tori thinks the danger is over with the death of Smaug behind us, but Thorin and Co (and Tori!) soon learn from Middle Earth's version of Twitter, Roäc, that it's just begun. We discuss the Battle of Five Armies, shed a tear or two, and are blessed with a couple songs sung by our dear Paul.   Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where P...

On May 9th we hosted a Charity Stream over on our Twitch Sillymarillion to raise funds for reproductive rights and various abortion-rights groups in high-stakes US states. Together with you all, we did closet cosplays, Paul gave out a handful of voice impressions, did the splits, shaved his facial hair, Tori spilled wine on her partner's keyboard, got a little tipsy, together discussed a couple ch...

They did it! They reached the Lonely Mountain!! Bilbo meets Smaug the big bad dragon and realizes there are many holes in their not-thought-out plan. Bilbo gets very clever when speaking with Smaug but jokes on him, Smaug is more clever. Who decides to have a riddle-off against a dragon anyway?!  Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about...

Tori catches Paul up (between bites of sloppy joe) on Elf-Tori at Ren Faire and Bachelor-wreck shenanigans. After their quarterly lovefest over their listeners, they jump into chapter 9 and 10 of The Hobbit where Bilbo shows more feats of heroism by saving Thorin & Co (yet again!) from elf jail after their trespassing, before they float on down in barrels and crash Lake Town! Welcome to The Si...