For the Shire: Coming Home Through Tolkien, Tarot and Jung

Two very nerdy Mellons, Molly and Libby, begin a new adventure... For the Shire: Coming Home through Tolkien, Tarot and Jung.In this podcast we geek out about the Lord of the Rings and explore its characters through the archetypal portals of Tarot and Jungian Depth Psychology.We share how these books have shaped us, given meaning to our lives and carried us to the crack of doom… and back again.Please join us on this road as it follows ever on and on."May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

For the Shire: Coming Home Through Tolkien, Tarot and Jung is a arts podcast hosted by For the Shire, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #17

  Samwise the Brave: A Tarot Reading from the Edge of Mordor

  Dec 16, 20251h 36mS2

  <p>The nights grow longer and longer, and the days are dim. Samwise awakens at dawn and turns his face toward the dark East, imagining, somewhere far away, a sun still lifting itself over green hills, lighting the faces of all those he has left behind. Rosie Cotton smiling into the morning. The Shire breathing, warm and alive.</p><p>But here, at the Threshold of Mordor, there is no dawn to break the long dark. Frodo is fading. Slipping further from himself with every step and the old certainties no longer hold. Sam has followed faithfully across half the...

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  Arwen's Choice: Follow the Evenstar into the Night

  Oct 28, 20251h 21mS0

  <p>“He halted amazed, thinking that he had strayed into a dream, or else that he had received the gift of the Elf-minstrels, who can make the things of which they sing appear before the eyes of those that listen.”</p><p>What happens to love after it dies? For the elves, it never can. It is carried over to the Underlying Lands, where it will ring forever green. </p><p>But for mortals… for mortals, we don’t know where love goes when it dies. Does it follow life into the mystery, does it slink down into the soil with the...

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  Will you look into the Mirror?

  Jul 21, 20251h 40mS0

  <h2>Will You Look Into the Mirror?</h2><p></p><p>Join us as we shine a light on Galadriel, one of Tolkien’s most enigmatic and powerful beings. We trace her sweeping arc, from her origins in the blissful light of Valinor, through exile and long voyages across Middle-earth, to the deep wisdom and quiet power she wields in her later years.</p><p>We explore her entangled history with the Rings of Power, giving special honour to her own ring, Nenya, the Ring of Adamant. It is Nenya that sustains the heart of Elvendom in Middle-earth, that lends her...

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  The One Ring

  Jul 7, 20251h 41mS0

  <p>Mae govannen, dear listeners, and welcome to Season 2 of For the Shire.</p><p>We begin, as all great tales do, in shadow, by turning our gaze to the One Ring:</p><p>That which devours.</p><p>That which disembodies.</p><p>That which destroys.</p><p>“What have I got in my pocket?”</p><p>A riddle, a chance, a doom.</p><p>The Ring holds many powers, but perhaps its greatest gift was not to Bilbo, nor to Gollum, nor even to Sauron. But to Tolkien himself. It gave him something solid, something glinting in the dark...

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  The Gifts of Galadriel: Christmas Special

  Dec 18, 20241h 27mS0

  <p>“If Elves indeed still dwell here in this darkening world.”</p> <p>We're back! For a special festive episode where we explore the symbolism of gift giving in Lothlorien. </p> <p>Every member of the Fellowship is given a parting gift by the Lady of the Light. Does she know what will befall them all? What do her gifts symbolise and how do they shape the narrative as the Fellowship cracks at the Falls of Rauros? </p> <p>From Galadriel’s gift of the Light of Eärendil, we take a whistle stop tour through the history of Elvendom on Middle...

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