Season 1 · Episode 120
Episode 120: Who Owns Epic Fantasy?
Our Opinions Are Correct · Annalee Newitz
December 1, 202244m 11s
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Show Notes
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy supercharged the genre of epic fantasy, giving rise to countless stories of heroic quests in settings that looked like Medieval Europe. How do we expand the map of heroic fantasy so it includes everybody who was marginalized, or left out completely, in those tales? Plus we talk to Tolkien scholar Helen Young about the racist backlash against the new TV show Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
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