The Tolkien Professor

Corey and Maggie are joined by special guest Una McCormack for a discussion on film-to-book adaptation!

Maggie and Corey are joined by author Una McCormack who has written numerous novels in the worlds of Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Firefly. She's a respected voice in the world of creative writing, science fiction, authorship and fan fiction and her work can be found at: https://unamccormack.co.uk/

Other Minds and Hands: An Open and Friendly Discussion of Tolkien Adaptation, Episode 122,

recorded on January 19, 2026.

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Hosts:

Dr. Corey Olsen the Tolkien Professor

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Dr. Maggie Parke

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Episode guest:

author Una McCormack

https://unamccormack.co.uk/

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Maggie and Corey return to Pride and Prejudice to start the filming of Episode 1 of the series.

Corey and Maggie review last weeks' filming and do their first recording for Pride & Prejudice.

Check out Maggie's upcoming SPACE class in March, Susan Cooper: King of Shadows. https://tinyurl.com/class-with-maggie

Other Minds and Hands: An Open and Friendly Discussion of Tolkien Adaptation, Episode 121, recorded on January 12, 2026.

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Hosts: Dr. Corey Olsen the Tolkien Professor https://signumuniversity.org/directory/corey-olsen/

Dr. Maggie Parke https://signumuniversity.org/directory/maggie-parke/

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Corey and Maggie are back for the New Year, and invite you to join them in a production meeting about several Signum Studios projects!

Maggie and Corey discuss the weeks' filming at StudioLab and organise ideas and details for the projects in this production meeting.

Check out Maggie's upcoming SPACE class in March, Susan Cooper: King of Shadows.

https://tinyurl.com/class-with-maggie

Other Minds and Hands: An Open and Friendly Discussion of Tolkien Adaptation, Episode 120,

recorded on January 5, 2026.Join us on the Signum University Discord server: https://discord.gg/szXMFAv

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Hosts:

Dr. Corey Olsen the Tolkien Professor

https://signumuniversity.org/directory/corey-olsen/

Dr. Maggie Parke

https://signumuniversity.org/directory/maggie-parke/

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Join Maggie and Corey for some exciting discussion of adaptation theory today, building on recent discussions.Corey and Maggie explore the terms and ideas of adaption and discuss plotting adaptations on axes. Data!

Other Minds and Hands: An Open and Friendly Discussion of Tolkien Adaptation, Episode 119,

recorded on December 15, 2025.

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For more information https://mythgard.org/miscellany/

You can watch or listen to the recordings here.

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Hosts:

Dr. Corey Olsen the Tolkien Professor

https://signumuniversity.org/directory/corey-olsen/

Dr. Maggie Parke

https://signumuniversity.org/directory/maggie-parke/

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Corey and Maggie return to pre-production on their Pride and Prejudice case study.Other Minds and Hands: An Open and Friendly Discussion of Tolkien Adaptation, Episode 118,

recorded on December 1, 2025.Join us on the Signum University Discord server: https://discord.gg/szXMFAv

Join us on Mondays at 4:30 PM ET,

on this SignumU Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/SignumUniversity

and SignumU Twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/signumu

Check the schedule here. https://www.twitch.tv/signumu/schedule

For more information https://mythgard.org/miscellany/

You can watch or listen to the recordings here.

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https://tolkienprof.fireside.fm/subscribe

Hosts:

Dr. Corey Olsen the Tolkien Professor

https://signumuniversity.org/directory/corey-olsen/

Dr. Maggie Parke

https://signumuniversity.org/directory/maggie-parke/

For more information about Signum Studios and Signum Collaboratory, visit

Signum Studios

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Signum Collaboratory

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