Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast,

the show that explores the background of the Rings lorecast.

You can probably hear in my voice.

I am fighting a little bit of a cold.

I'm struggling to get this episode out this week,

but I hope that this goes okay and that this isn't too much of a distraction from the content.

So welcome back.

This is your host, Tom, or Robots.

And we are about to conclude Tours story, at least for the coming to gondolin part in the story of the fall of gondolin which we don't actually get to

as i described at the beginning this story is unfinished it's one of the unfinished tales it's the

reason why it's in this book now that doesn't mean it doesn't have a conclusion there's a

sort of conclusion here in the place that it actually ends, but it's not

the full hero's journey. And I think that's something important to note here is that Tolkien,

whether he realized it or not, and I'm not 100% sure if he was aware of Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces,

where he lays out the hero's journey and how similar these stories are across mythologies

and the different steps in the hero's journey.

Or as he would put it, the archetypal hero in the world of myths.

Now, that book was published in

1949, so there is a good chance that Tolkien would have read that, or at least been aware of it

later on in his life. But I have a sense that he probably was already aware of something very

similar in his understanding of myth and heroes in myth already without it

needing to be formalized in this kind of concept. But whether he was aware of it on his own or

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