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By-The-Bywater: A Podcast about All Things J.R.R. Tolkien

87. It Does Make Sense If You're Not A Complete Idiot, GUY!

By-The-Bywater: A Podcast about All Things J.R.R. Tolkien

Show Notes

On the fourteenth-century poem Pearl (and Tolkien’s translation).

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