What Mad Universe?!?
An adventure through the history of pulp SF and fantasy!
5 years ago

S1E23 -Chapter Twenty-Three: Every Worm Has His Weak Spot!

On FARMER GILES OF HAM, by J. R. R. Tolkien

We never like to go for the obvious stuff here on What Mad Universe?!?, so even though the latest episode is about J. R. R. Tolkien, we're focusing on one of his obscure stories, Farmer Giles of Ham. It's a story he told to his children which got revamped into something more sophisticated via his academic obsessions, and as such it contains his career in miniature.

Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross

Theme song by Jack Feerick

Additional Music: The Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers - www.silvermansound.com (used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.)