On Fantastic Transmissions, I try to talk about authors whose names you might not know. Tonight’s transmission: Farmer Giles of Ham by J R R Tolkien Introduction Welcome to fantastic transmissions, the podcast about the greatest and weirdest sci-fi and fantasy stories ever told. Links and references can be found at the bottom of the post! Their work can be found on the Free Music Archive under a Non-Commercial Attribution License. The intro music is sampled from Clyde Borly and His Percussions, off the album “Music in Five Dimensions.” The rest of the music in the podcast was created by Blue Dot Sessions. I discuss some of the linguistics jokes and historical references in the work, and then talk more broadly about Tolkien’s own opinions on language, nationality, and identity. Ham is one of Tolkien’s forays into fable and comedy, a little-read work with big ideas. Episode 6 of Fantastic Transmissions is about Farmer Giles of Ham by J.
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