Lore of the Things
Lore of the Things is a podcast about the lore...of things. You may have been searching for Lord of the Rings, but maybe you just put on press on nails and can’t type properly, or you’re eating olive oil with your hands, or you’re using talk-to-text, but you have Invisalign in. In any case, you are welcome here!
And by "here," I mean, here to dissect the most beloved aspects of fantasy TV and film storytelling, from Shire folk to Smoke Monster, with lil stops in the stranger corners of pop culture. Whether it's the bonkers plots of 90s Swedish children’s movies, the oft maligned enigma of LOST, or George RR Martin sh*tposting about Tolkien, let us overanalyze with haha's (hopefully), heart (definitely), and neuroses (definitely x2). A guide through the Multiverse of Mythical Minutiae, if you will.
Hosted by: Rebecka Green. You can VERY SWEETLY @ her on Instagram @rebecka_green or TikTok @thebecksfactor. With questions, comments, love letters, email: loreofthethingspod@gmail.com.
Lore of the Things
The 3 ingredients of a successful villain origin story
"This is my villain origin story," we all scream-text our friends at the smallest inconvenience. My "thirteenth reason why." What brings us each to our breaking point, or as the kids say: "crashing out." We are all one Trader-Joes-being-out-of-eggs-for-the-9th-day-in-a-row away from Villain Era, and we'd be in good company. Compelling genre stories nearly always feature a compelling villain. And in the era of IP expansion at the film and TV levels, we are spoiled for choice in villain origin stories to inspire our own impending Crash Outs.
This episode of Lore of the Things argues there are three ingredients of a successful villain origin story (listen to find out!!!) Using Star Wars's Darth Vader, Lord of the Rings's Lord Sauron, and ASOIAF's Targaryen family, we'll debate which origin stories successfully cook using these ingredients, and if/when we need to know why mask-clad bad guys do bad things (g*noc*de).
Show notes and references:
- RogerEbert.com: How The Phantom Menace Predicted Hollywood’s Prequel Future
- Sunsets of High Renown: An Interview with George R. R. Martin by Nick Gevers
- The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Letter 183.
Lore of the Things is produced, hosted, and blood/sweat/tear'd over by Rebecka Green. Find her on Instagram @rebecka_green and email loreofthethingspod@gmail.com with compliments and complaints.
Opening and closing music is "Magical Journey" by Geoff Harvey, and podcast artwork is by Levi Åhlén, @oloflevi, featuring Terry O'Quinn's portrayal of John Locke in the pilot episode of LOST.