138: The Hobbit 13: The Terrors of The Mountains
Lord of the Rings Lorecast
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5 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Bilbo's first mountain experience turns terrifying, and only descends from there.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning. As I was preparing for this week's episode, something dawned on me. |
| 0:29.8 | And maybe it's obvious. |
| 0:32.4 | Maybe it's something I should have thought about previously. |
| 0:35.4 | So if I'm kind of an idiot here, feel free to let me know. But we all |
| 0:40.0 | know that hobbits don't travel very much. In general, they avoid adventure. They like to live |
| 0:46.8 | in their little hobbit holes in Hobbiton or in the shire, and they do their farming or they do |
| 0:53.3 | their whatever it is that they do for a living. |
| 0:56.3 | And they don't go very far. |
| 0:57.7 | We all know that, right? |
| 0:59.7 | This section of the Hobbit is the first time they climb up into the mountains. |
| 1:06.4 | And it dawned on me that the dwarves clearly have seen mountains. |
| 1:11.1 | They live in mountains. |
| 1:12.3 | Gandalf has traveled all over Middle Earth. |
| 1:14.7 | He knows the mountains like the back of his hand. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, roughly speaking. |
| 1:19.2 | But Bilbo has never been in the mountains before. |
| 1:24.5 | In fact, he's barely ever seen a mountain. I don't think that there is a |
| 1:29.8 | mountain that is visible from his location in the Shire. I mean, maybe he can see some of the |
| 1:36.8 | blue mountains off to the west, but I'm not sure that that's possible. These might be the first mountains that he has ever seen. |
| 1:46.5 | He's seen forests. |
| 1:48.0 | He's seen hillsides. |
| 1:50.1 | He may have even seen a cave before. |
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