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Bonus Episode: The Fall of Arthur

In which the poem ends too early, Christopher Tolkien's footnotes don't, and Lancelot finally does the right thing three drafts too late

Dr. Junius Johnson and Fr. Wesley Walker are joined by poet-priest-scholar Malcolm Guite for a deep dive into J.R.R. Tolkien’s unfinished alliterative poem, The Fall of Arthur — and make the case that it deserves to be read as seriously as anything else in Tolkien’s body of work.

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