113: Unfinished Tales: The Mariner's Wife - What Happens After the Story
Lord of the Rings Lorecast
Robots Radio
5 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Mariner's Wife is technically an unfinished tale, but it does have a sort of conclusion. But what about what happens after the main story with each of the characters? And why is this story so important?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, |
| 0:09.0 | the show that explores the background of Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning. So in the last episode, we wrapped up the story, the Mariners' wife with Arendus and Aldarion. |
| 0:34.7 | And it came to a sort of conclusion, but it left a lot of, I don't know, room for |
| 0:41.1 | speculation about a couple of different things, where the story would continue after this |
| 0:47.7 | end point. And I'm putting that in air quotes as I'm talking into my microphone. But also, |
| 0:53.1 | why is this story so interesting and different? |
| 0:56.6 | And what is the point of having this one story during this, I don't know, |
| 1:03.0 | early to middle period of the Newman-Norians during the second age? |
| 1:07.1 | Why specifically tell this story? |
| 1:09.8 | Why specifically these characters? |
| 1:12.3 | What is the point of that? |
| 1:13.4 | Why would Tolkien even spend so much time fleshing this out in the midst of an age of the |
| 1:21.1 | world that is shrouded in so much mystery? |
| 1:25.3 | So I wanted to take this episode and talk about not only where things are going |
| 1:30.5 | in the story, where he kind of left off. There's a whole section after the end of the story |
| 1:36.4 | titled The Further Course of the Narrative, and it's actually fairly long. And it details a bit |
| 1:41.5 | about what we could possibly know about the future of these characters, where the rest of the story was going. |
| 1:48.9 | And Christopher Tolkien clearly put in a lot of work into this. |
| 1:51.9 | He details that there are scraps of notes and small little details and different versions of things written at very different times about where things may have gone and where his father's mind was with these characters. And he kind of pieces it together. It's worth reading through if you want to check out the whole thing. I will be quoting parts of it in order to take a look at specific characters and to get an even deeper sense of who they were or who they |
| 2:19.9 | were going to be. Plus, I'm going to talk about the context of this. Why is this interesting and |
| 2:24.5 | unique and important during the middle of the second age and why this story specifically |
| 2:30.0 | is interesting and important to the greater narrative. Let's go. |
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