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First Time Readers

Jon, Danny, Kristen, Jenn, Lizzy

It"s every fan"s dream to read the books they love for the first time again. The wonder, the joy, the excitement and forums and not knowing what is going to happen on the next page. It"s one of the best experiences ever. Join four readers as they read and talk about Harry Potter, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and other nerd worlds. So come vicariously live through some first-time readers!

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00:10:11

The magical system of Middle Earth is Bizarre...

First Time Readers ·

2025/10/04

One of the things I hear over and over is how Tolkien is creating a soft magic system. I think in my mind I define that just as an ambiguous magic system…one where you don’t see magic all that often and then one that also doesn’t go into detail about some of the things that are happening. So I don’t know if some of you have any answers to these questions because it feels like Tolkien’s work just stays forever at a soft magic system. I would be very intrigued and curious if he ever went into detail

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00:10:36

JRR Tolkien is the best perspective shift writer I've...

First Time Readers ·

2025/10/03

When I was in college, I took a writing class. In that class one of the very first things that they taught was to never, ever, under any circumstances, switch the perspective of your writing. Now, there was a reason for why they forced us into this, because they wanted us to stick to either first person or third person for our writing, and they believed that when you switched perspectives too much is messes with your ability to keep that straight, and it messes with the readers ability to follow

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00:10:02

This was the moment Pippin became a man...or a hobbit

First Time Readers ·

2025/10/02

I think you can only really know the measure of a man by how they handle adversity and challenges. In this case, you can only really know the measure of a hobbit by how they handle adversity. None of us like to be in those situations, but how we handle them is the thing that matters the most. I think that’s a huge theme of Tolkien’s writing right now.

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00:20:35

Why the world needs more men like Éomer

First Time Readers ·

2025/10/01

What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? And then both of those things meet Gimli? It’s a question that the philosophers have debated for ages, and it was a question that was settled by JRR Tolkien in the chapter The Riders of Rohan, when Eomer meets Aragorn, and then Gimli steps in after something ticks him off.

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00:17:23

Peter Jackson left out all the tension that JRR...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/30

The Riders of Rohan chapter of The Two Towers is one of the most tense chapters of literature that I have read in a long time. I’m a movie fan, so I know Merry and Pippen are alive, but if you were reading this with no knowledge of the movies or the fate or Merry and Pippen I don’t know if I’ve ever read a chapter that plays with your emotions more than this one.

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00:18:48

This was the moment I fell in love with Aragorn

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/29

It’s time. I feel like it’s that moment in Lion King when Simba ascends Pride Rock…I am FINALLY going to talk about how in one simple chapter…one of the shortest in the whole series so far…Aragorn became one of my favorite characters.

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00:14:40

The Beginning of the Two Towers is a MASTERCLASS in...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/28

If you’ve read The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien, you know that this book starts off guns a blazing. It is drastically different from it’s film adaptation in that Boromir dies at the beginning of this book rather than at the end of the Fellowship. And the whole Company is in chaos at the end of the last book rather than the movie has, where there’s chaos, but there’s also closure, and a plan.

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00:17:13

Why you should read the Fellowship of the Ring

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/27

Having just finished reading Lord of the Rings for the first time and publishing over 10 hours of video essays on the work, I think I am not a certified expert in this text…I am just kidding, please don’t come after me. But I do think I have something to offer to people who have yet to read this book. And for those of you who have, you just get to sit back and enjoy me dote on this book for a few minutes.

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00:16:44

Who is the greatest writer of all time?

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/26

Who is the greatest writer of all time. It’s an impossible question…why would I even ask it…no one can answer that one in any kind of objective way…well Im gunna do just that.

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00:32:56

Is the Fellowship of the Ring a better movie than book?

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/25

So I just finished reading the Lord of the Rings: The fellowship of the Ring for the first time in my life. And it was incredible. I will dote on it this essay. And so I did the only rational thing you do after you read an incredible book like that, I rewatched the movie…for maybe the 50th time in my life.

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00:16:00

Samwise Gamgee is EVEN BETTER in the Books

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/24

So yesterday I talked about Boromir being the most relatable character in the whole of the fellowship because of his flaws…I take that back. I think Sam is

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01:53:37

The Two Towers: Bk 4 - Ch 7-9

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/24

Jon, Danny, and Lizzy talk about the incredible ending of book 4, and the one point where JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis shed a tear over.

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00:25:18

Did the Fellowship Fail Boromir? (YES...and no)

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/23

Did the fellowship fail Boromir? It’s a question someone asked in a comment a few videos ago and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head for the last few days. I think the answer is no…but also yes…absolutely yes.

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00:09:28

How Aragorn being "erect" makes Tolkien an absolute...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/22

Alright. So this is the weirdest, but the absolute funniest moment in the entirety of the Fellowship of the Ring. And what might sound like the start to a really immature essay on the Aragorn son of Arathorn, the well endowed, is actually going to really be about the mastery of Tolkien’s language…but give me a little bit of time to get there.

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00:14:23

Three WILD EVENTS that happened on the River in...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/21

It took them 10 days to get from Lothlorien to the waterfall Tol Brandir. It’s a full chapter in the books and in the 10 days there is a whole heap of stuff that happens that…from Legolas seeing an Eagle hunting an eagle…which feels weirdly prophetic…to Sam being deeply uncomfortable in the boats. But I want to talk about three things that really caught my attention in this chapter.

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00:14:12

I just want to talk about Galadriel giving Gimli...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/20

I just feel, even though I have barely scratched the surface of the legendarium, that Galadriel and Gimli are doing something here VITALLY more important that I know or understand.

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00:15:48

The Gifts of Galadriel are SO INCREDIBLE in the Books...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/19

Rope…you’re telling me that we go from the books, where Galadriel gives Sam Gamgee maybe the coolest gift known to Middle Earth, and all we get in the movies is that sam got rope? ROPE?

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00:15:29

This is the Reason why Tolkien "intensely disliked" Dune

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/18

I’m going to start this video off with a very very hot take. Since the Lord of the Rings films came out, in the early 2000s, there hasn’t been another movie that handles the storytelling of a fantasy or sci fi book, or has the beautiful visuals in the same way that the Dune series does.

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00:20:41

The Mirror of Galadriel is so BIZARRE to me...

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/17

I have to say, for maybe the first time in this entire series I am confused. I just don’t know what really happened at the Mirror of Galadriel. Maybe I’m over-analyising it and it’s really much simpler than I’m making it out to be, or maybe it’s way more complicated and I need to have a better understanding of language in order to do it. But there are just some weird things that happened that I didn’t have the answers for.

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00:14:10

What did Galadriel offer each member of the fellowship?

First Time Readers ·

2025/09/16

There is this weird section in the FOTR when the Company meets Galadriel. And Galadriel looks into each of their eyes almost simultaneously, and seems to offer them something.

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