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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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We begin the most iconic chapter in the entire book. Something that sticks with all of us, after reading. We all know what it's like to wander around in the dark. The fear. The loneliness...
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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. |
0:26.2 | As we begin, Riddles in the Dark, Chapter 5 of The Hobbit, |
0:33.2 | it occurs to me that this is probably the most memorable chapter in the entire book. |
0:45.2 | I would wager that if you were to get together 100 people who have read the book or even watch the movie, and ask them, what do you remember about The Hobbit? |
0:52.1 | I bet a majority, or at least the largest number of people, will respond about something in Chapter 5. |
0:58.0 | Now, whether that's the actual riddles scene with Gollum or Gullum himself, or finding the ring, Bilbo being lost in the dark, |
1:03.0 | there's something about this chapter which feels like |
1:08.0 | the gravitational center of the entire book. |
1:12.7 | It is extremely memorable. |
1:14.6 | And I think that that happens for a number of reasons. |
1:18.4 | First of all, it's simple. |
1:21.5 | In later chapters, we have the Battle of the Five Armies, |
1:24.9 | and the complexity of that is enticing and very interesting, but very |
1:30.9 | complex. |
1:32.5 | At the beginning, we have the early stories, you know, the different parts of the story, |
1:38.0 | which I would branch off to different individual stories. |
1:41.9 | So the story of Bilbo and meeting all of the dwarves in his home and the story of the |
1:48.8 | beginning of their journey and then running into the trolls or the story about how they |
1:53.3 | were wandering in the wilderness. |
1:55.1 | But then Elrond helped them out. |
1:58.2 | And of course, all of those are interesting in their own ways, but they are not, |
2:03.1 | I don't know, as simple maybe as this section of the story. You have a very dark environment. |
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