AthraPlay RPG Podcast

Happy birthday to Frodo and Bilbo and US! Two years of AthraPlay, and we wouldn't be doing it without you. Thank you for listening, laughing, theorizing, and nerding out with us for two years. Cheers to more adventures to come! #lotr #hobbitday #podcast

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Where would we be without @james.athrabeth.com ?! (Not adventuring in Middle-earth) Happy birthday James!

Happy birthday to our favorite ranger!!! 🎉

Enjoy our live show from Oxonmoot! The slides are SO FUNNY! Sara and Kristine and truly the Meme Queens! 👑Don’t sleep on the slides! youtu.be/1HUBvRazbKU

Join us in episode 99 for a recap of our time at #Oxonmoot 2026 and our live show with Dr. Sara Brown and Dr. Kristine Larsen, titled Odious Oaths, Pernicious Promises, and Vicious Vows! Thank you both! For the slides, check out: youtu.be/1HUBvRazbKU  athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

New Cael lore just dropped right in time for the season

What better way to celebrate a birthday then a NEW EPISODE! Moranor, Cael, and Narieth ask for aid from Lothlorien, as they prepare to infiltrate the fortress of Dol Guldur, and the shadows awaiting them… www.athrabethnetwork.com/athraplay-ep... #lotr #podcast #actualplay #ttrpg

Happy second birthday to our sister show, @athraplay.athrabeth.com! They are telling some wonderful stories over there, go check them out! Cheers to two years and counting! 💚 linktr.ee/athraplay

I can’t believe that I have been lucky enough to be part of this show for two years! This Fellowship means so much to me. Their creativity, kindness, and care make @athraplay.athrabeth.com special. Thank you all for being the best, James, Velvet, Tori, Nik, Jude, and our amazing editor Tracy! 💚

On Thursday, I started a project to remaster the entire @athraplay.athrabeth.com library. Listeners noted that voices were too quiet compared to other shows. It's a unique experience! I've never had a chance to go back and rework like this with audio.

We had so much fun in our Athrabeth live show yesterday at #Oxonmoot! Thank you to the ever amazing @aranelparmadil.bsky.social and Kristine Larsen for joining us, and thank you all for coming in-person and online! If anyone took any photos, can you please send us one? These are all we got! 😂

The folks at @athraplay.athrabeth.com are some of the best to work with. Just saying. Soecial shout-out to producer @james.athrabeth.com. Class act!

Super fun Friday of #Oxonmoot! A beautiful play by dear friends, lots of wonderful talks and our trivia team, “Stupid Sexy Sauron” got a very respectable score of 81! A fantastic Friday! Too many photos to fit here but I’ll post more!

It was so cool to see Jude amongst such a fantastic group of Tolkien scholars at #oxonmoot! Stef and Producer James were SO PROUD watching him! It was such a thought provoking debate! Thanks @erikjampa.bsky.social for organizing it!

Tomorrow at #Oxonmoot! We have the honor of presenting “Odious Oaths, Pernicious Promises, and Vicious Vows: Athrabeth Podcast Live!” with special guests Dr. Sara Brown and Dr. Kristine Larsen! We’re in-person at 10:50 AM on Saturday in Oxford, and online! We hope to see you there!

Athrabeth is in Oxford! Wooo! See you soon @tolkiensociety.org and #Oxonmoot! Jude is happy to be here, even if his face says otherwise! 😂

Join us for the final volume in our Lesser-trod Histories series, HoMe vol 12: The Peoples of Middle-earth. We look at Tolkien's unfinished story, Tal-Elmar, and reflect on our journey through the Histories.  Tal-Elmar, not to be confused with Tall Elmer. athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

Tom, you deserve to be #1 always! 🤩 If you’d like to hear Tom on our show talking about his fantastic book, check out his episode here: athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

With #Oxonmoot fast approaching, we would like to share our special Athrabeth Oxonmoot 2026 design! We have pins and stickers to give away at Oxonmoot, so come find Jude and Stef to get yours! See you soon @tolkiensociety.org! Design by the amazing Shawn Decker! www.designedbydecker.com

Yes, I made this in Microsoft Paint. Episode 39: Mirror and Bone As the divided fellowship nears their goals, dangers await them… Listen wherever you pod your casts! And consider sharing with a friend who likes actual plays or queer fantasy or balrogs. www.athrabethnetwork.com/athraplay-ep... #lotr

The worst part? Only the dead and damned will remember them. Staring: @velvetthedragon.bsky.social @orphearts.bsky.social @nuffofabby.bsky.social @theonlyhelena.bsky.social Storyteller: Sawyer #worldofdarkness #podcast #hunterthereckoning

It's a great time to start @unexploredcast.bsky.social with their newest season! If you like LotR you should try @athraplay.athrabeth.com

How do you have a podcast episode when the group goes through a forest that doesn't allow them to....well....spoilers. Episode 38: The Silent Forest, is out now! www.athrabethnetwork.com/athraplay-ep... #lotr #podcasts #ttrpg #theonering #lotrpodcast #shhhhh

The party is splitting? The party is splitting! What better way to torment our DM then to have one storyline diverge into two simultaneous plot lines. Reminder that Episode 37: Two Roads Diverge, is out now! www.athrabethnetwork.com/athraplay-ep... #lotr #lotrpodcast #ttrpg #theonering

Join us this episode with David the Ñoldo to discuss Tolkien's dwarves! Through a lens of source criticism of secondary world authorship, David explores who is writing about the dwarves, their sources, and their biases. Thanks, @davidthengoldo.bsky.social! athrabeth.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

Tonight! 🤩 What do you think about luck in Tolkien’s work? Is luck a thing, or is it all fate? Can both luck and fate hang out together in the same stories?

There is a new episode of our sister podcast, @athraplay.athrabeth.com, out today! They’re doing the unthinkable- splitting the party. Good luck loremaster @james.athrabeth.com! ✨ athraplay.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

Our dear pal Velvet’s stream starts tonight! Come join and support Velvet (Moranor on @athraplay.athrabeth.com)!

Go play some games with Velvet! 5/5 stars, highly recommend. :)

TWO DAYS FROM NOW!! JUST TWO!!

Just a reminder, for no particular reason, that our podcast includes POC & Queer players AND characters. All are welcome in our Middle-earth!

Just a reminder, for no particular reason, that our podcast includes POC & Queer players AND characters. All are welcome in our Middle-earth!

Seriously I'm so bad at remembering how to combat LOL

It's recording day!

to work through this in a fictional setting something that mirrored what was happening to me IRL. Anyway, all that to say, I love this game and I love this story <3

This ep was recorded the same week i went to visit my dad in the hospital who has dementia and similarly to Thranduil, mistook me for someone else in the family. James didn't know this was happening in my personal life and I shared it with him after our session, but it was oh so cathartic 1/2

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Speaking of give trans people money I'll even give you an rpg game back :3