"The Muscle of Not Understanding:...
"The Muscle of Not Understanding:" Jonathan Stenger flexes his commitment to understanding the one novel to rule them all, Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring (1954).

Revisions, How Our Favorite Books Change Us by Jen Nails

Episode notes

Library worker Jonathan found Fellowship in his older brother's room when he was eleven and began his years-long quest toward actually understanding what he was reading. We'll burrow deep into the shire of Jonny's memories of rereading and rereading this novel, and he'll examine what it means to persevere onward, even through the uncertainty, toward Mordor!

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book podcastLas Vegas-Clark County Library DistrictJen NailsRevisions podcastJ.R.R. TolkienFellowship of the RingJonny Spring Valley Librarylove bookspiritualityLord of the Rings