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🗓️ 15 July 2024
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There are many moments throughout the story where Bilbo has to rise to the occasion, but did you notice the very first time he does?
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lorecast, the dwarfs finished singing their song, |
0:30.1 | and Bilbo is pulled out of his trance. So remember, he starts actually envisioning this majestic scenery that they're |
0:40.7 | describing, the mountains and the trees and the waterfalls, and then some fire leaps up outside, |
0:47.6 | and it pulls him out of it. And all of a sudden, he's like a deer in headlights. Here's what it says. |
0:55.6 | He got up trembling. |
0:57.2 | He had less than half a mind to fetch the lamp and more than half a mind to pretend to, |
1:04.2 | and go and hide behind the beer barrels in the cellar and not come out again until all the |
1:09.4 | dwarfs had gone away. |
1:17.7 | Suddenly, he found that the music and the singing had stopped, and they were all looking at him with eyes shining in the dark. |
1:22.1 | And the dark in the light becomes a theme of this section, because it's very dark. |
1:27.4 | The time has moved on from the evening |
1:30.3 | into the night. And although it feels like who knows how much time has gone by while they've been |
1:36.7 | singing their songs, we know that it's still many hours until morning. And as Bilbo tries to figure out what to do, the idea of going for the light or pretending |
1:47.0 | to go for the light or whatever he's trying to decide, Thorin sends a question his way. |
1:53.4 | Where are you going? |
1:54.8 | It's directed to the point, but we also find out from the narrator that Thorin seems to be able to read Bilbo's mind. |
2:05.4 | And what we're getting here is an understanding of who Thorin is in a little bit more detail, |
2:10.5 | in a very brief moment here. |
2:12.6 | We know that he is experienced enough to be able to read a situation and to understand maybe what |
2:19.0 | Bilbo feels in this situation. And there's also a semblance of an attempt to control it. |
2:28.0 | By pointing out that he's leaving, he's attempting to manipulate the result. |
2:35.0 | It's a subtle thing, but it's there. |
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