Great Stories about Great Storytellers
GREAT STORIES about GREAT STORYTELLERS shares insights into storytellers whose names you no doubt recognize—names like Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Spielberg John Grisham and Walt Disney—but reveals the backstories you probably never heard about them. The podcast features different kinds of storytellers—authors, directors, playwrights and even a poet or two. In short 10-15 minutes episodes, this fun and sometimes funny podcast features anecdotes and tidbits about storytellers, with each episode spotlighting a modern storyteller like Tom Clancy or a classical name like Charles Dickens, but in a very different light.
Great Stories about Great Storytellers
J. R. R. Tolkien--the imagination that birthed epic Middle Earth stories
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode, you learn--
- how the early tragedies, triumphs and experiences of his young life inspired his fantasy tales
- the unlikely path Tolkien's invented story for his children took to become a bestseller with more than 100 million copies
- how it took Tolkien almost two decades to develop, research, write and publish Lord of the Rings
- how the real Tolkien is not much like the stereotypical author and scholar,
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!