The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit creator JRR Tolkien

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

BBC

History, Comedy

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Thanyia Moore, Lauren Pattison and Pierre Novellie are on a quest for the man who created the Ring. Is he more Sauron or Gandalf? Evil Genius with Russell Kane is a BBC Audio Bristol production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Warning! This episode contains strong language.
0:07.6	LAUGHTER
0:10.1	GENIUS
0:12.3	Genius! Genius!
0:13.9	Welcome to BBC Radio 4's Evil Genius,
0:18.0	the show that upsets more people than a warm prawn sandwich made with a shitty hand.
0:23.5	The game is dastardly and simple.
0:25.8	We discuss the prominent hero from history, then my panel of jokers must vote one way or the other, evil.
0:32.8	LAUGHTER
0:34.8	Or genius.
0:36.7	LAUGHTER
0:39.8	It's simple guys, cancel or keep.
0:43.3	And today, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ronald to his friends, he wrote the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
0:50.1	In fact, he created a whole mythology he called his Legendarium.
0:55.6	It was full of elves, Hobbits, Orcs, dwarves, Enns, trolls, ancient kingdoms, epic battles,
1:03.5	chivalry, heroism and all the other things I needed when I couldn't get a girl to go near my willy until I was almost 20.
1:09.9	Who cares if Kelly doesn't want to bang me, I'm going to be smashing an elven princess with my 20 sided dice later.
1:15.1	Get in.
1:16.6	It's almost impossible to work out how many books he sold, but it's in the hundreds of millions.
1:22.1	The Lord of the Rings was voted the best book of the last millennium.
1:26.2	The Peter Jackson Tolkien movies, The Lord of the Ring trilogy and the three Hobbit movies, made ready $6 billion at the box office,
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