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Cover of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954
Mentioned 35 times across 22 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline35 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
Adam Grant On The Secrets Of Strong Relationships In A Lonely World
The Rich Roll Podcast · Nov 2026
“we would not have the Lord of the Rings”
694. Does Democracy Really Need Elections?
Freakonomics Radio · Nov 2026
“It's the theme of literature, like from Lord of the Rings. The ring will corrupt you”
Why hope needs rage and love
Ideas · Nov 2026
“So we'll start with Haldeer the Woodland Elf from J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings series”
Would You Want to Know If You Were Wrong?
The Michael Shermer Show · Sep 2026
“There's not really a middle earth in JR and J.R. Tolkien's uh Lord of the Rings”
Would You Want to Know If You Were Wrong?
The Michael Shermer Show · Sep 2026
“There's not really a middle earth in JR and J.R. Tolkien's uh Lord of the Rings”
1387: Romance in Rome Ends with Lien on Your Home | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show · Sep 2026
“And I just got that feeling like Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings”
Classic Episode: How Do I Kick My Scrolling Habit? | Monday Advice
Deep Questions with Cal Newport · Aug 2026
“author of other things, among other things, of the Lord of the Rings trilogy”
You Are Not Ordinary
Hidden Brain · Jul 2026
“Another classic hero's journey is found in the Lord of the Rings. The series of novels by G. R. R. Tolkien”
Redeeming swamps from their wasteland reputation
Ideas · Jul 2026
“This poem helped inspire the Dead Marshes of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy”
Jameson Olsen - Becoming the Main Character (Ep. 322)
Infinite Loops · Jul 2026
“one of the best parts in the Lord of the Rings Which the movies cover, but they change it”
Jefferson: The Betrayal of Liberty (Part 4)
The Rest Is History · Jul 2026
“comparisons with the Lord of the Rings”
David Gelles - The Stories that Shape Business (Ep. 321)
Infinite Loops · Jul 2026
“I guess I remember the Lord of the Rings trilogy, reading that with my father”
#1269 Breeze Oliver & Kerushi Drake: Destroying Every Manosphere Claim
The Dissenter · Jun 2026
“A guy like, I don't know, Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings”
The race no one can win: AI’s anti-human crisis, with Aza Raskin
Masters of Scale · Jun 2026
“This is why AI is like The one ring. Um from Lord of the Rings”
Paul Rosolie Met An Uncontacted Tribe & Is Trying To Protect Them: On Preserving The Amazon To Save All Life On Earth
The Rich Roll Podcast · Jun 2026
“They read as Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia, Jane Goodall books”
A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · May 2026
“Please read something other than Lord of the Rings”
A fantastical history of fairies
HistoryExtra podcast · Apr 2026
“in The Lord of the Rings, he reintroduced heroic, human sized elves”
Reacting to Job Postings That Are Too Ridiculous to Be True
EntreLeadership · Apr 2026
“This isn't a job description? It's a lost chapter of Lord of the Rings”
The $60 billion resource hiding in space, and the start trying to mine it (feat. Matt Gialich, Astroforge) | E2268
This Week in Startups · Mar 2026
“Warner Brothers and Newline don't own the rights. They only own The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings”
The Mental Skills for Becoming an Everyday Genius
The Art of Manliness · Mar 2026
“why would you want to speed read through you know, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit or Harry Potter, right”
How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer)
EconTalk · Mar 2026
“I always find it hilarious when you have like the Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones or these shows”
Shermer Says 7: Responding to Fan Mail … "Who Was Jesus?"
The Michael Shermer Show · Mar 2026
“is there really a Middle earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings”
Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English
Conversations with Tyler · Mar 2026
“Tolkien. And I mean Lord of the Rings”
2025
Possible: Stephen Colbert isn’t so sure about AI (with Reid Hoffman)
Masters of Scale · Sep 2025
“read all three Lord of the Rings”
#794: Brandon Sanderson on Building a Fiction Empire, Creating $40M+ Kickstarter Campaigns, Unbreakable Habits, The Art of World-Building, and The Science of Magic Systems
The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
“at Tolkien's work with languages. He's the master. Yeah. Unbelievably complex ... Wow. He Basically wrote Lord of the Rings”
2024
What Dungeons & Dragons can teach entrepreneurs, with Reid Hoffman and Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks
Masters of Scale · Dec 2024
“turns them into a big fantasy epic that we know today as the Lord of the Rings trilogy”
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
The Knowledge Project · Oct 2024
“in the Lord of the Rings there's this one ring”
2022
Five Ways To Make Money, Vice Businesses, Fan Fiction And More
My First Million · Nov 2022
“The original Lord of the Rings It like the s the trilogy plus the next two books was like a total of seven hundred fifty thousand words”
TKP Insights: Making (Even) Better Decisions
The Knowledge Project · Oct 2022
“fantasy books like Lord of the Rings can demonstrate how mental models work”
#622: A Rare In-Person Random Show with Kevin Rose — VR Workouts, I Bonds, Excellent Movies, Recent Books, Lessons from Amy Tan, How to Shape Your Mind, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
“I also listened to um I know I'm jumping around a bit, the Fellowship of the Ring for the first time. So I had not read Lord of the Rings”
#257 Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)
Founders · Jul 2022
“JRR Tolkien had changed my life in that video I referenced earlier. Not only does he have like first editions of a bunch of Tolkien's uh novels”
2019
#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull
The Knowledge Project · May 2019
“whether it was, you know, reading Lord of the Rings for the first time or you know, reading about science or history”
2018
#36 Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
Founders · Sep 2018
“Lord of the Rings, obviously”
#21 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Founders · Mar 2018
“Favoring fantasy novels such as The Lord of the Rings”
Bonus: The 10 Commandments of Startup Success w/guest host Tim Ferriss
Masters of Scale · Feb 2018
“The books that I've most often read Are Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings”