Numlock Sunday: Susana Polo on The Year of the Ring

By Walt Hickey

Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.

This week in the Sunday edition I spoke to the brilliant Susana Polo, the author of the book The Year of the Ring, which collects an incredible project that was launched by the games and culture website Polygon diving into The Lord of the Rings.

I loved the book, and when the news was announced that Polygon had been sold and much of its staff laid off I wanted to have Susana on to talk about the book, the work she and her colleagues did at Polygon, and why this franchise has been just so enduring and touched so many people.

The book is available wherever books are sold.

This interview has been condensed and edited.

Susana Polo, thank you so much for coming on.

It's a delight.

I'm such a big fan of your work. I was such a big fan of Polygon, the site where you have spent the past couple of years. I want to have you on because there was a project you worked on at Polygon that you eventually turned into a book that I really, really love. …