Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of

Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning.

Does going through The Hobbit at this pace have an effect on you and your understanding of the book?

Do you see it differently?

I would imagine the answer is yes.

I mean, we are kind of going through almost like a literature class and taking apart every major point and sentence and word. But beyond that, going through it at this pace also allows me to see the context of each situation in reference to the greater whole.

I think that's probably the detail here.

It's not about the individual sentences or the words or kind of pairing it down and zooming in so much.

To my point right now, it's this idea that by taking it one piece at a time, I'm able to feel the changes as they occur.

Does that make sense?

So, for example, and I've mentioned this a few times in previous episodes, we have the story and the moving of the story from something very light and fairy tale

like to something that feels more dark and sinister and I think that we are definitely

getting to the deepest darkest place so far we talked about it a little bit in the last episode, in the episode before, how being in

the dark down under the mountain visually and also situationally with the ring there as

well, it was pretty much the bottom of darkness.

This is the very bottom of the mountain.

But even in the conversation, even in this riddle moment, this point of levity in a way,

where you have the lightning of the story through trying to figure out as the reader what the what these

individual riddles are as you go through there's this other moment that happens in the passages

that we're about to get to it's almost as if we shift from viewing everything through

bilbo's perspective to golem's Now, the point of view character for this

chapter doesn't change. It's still Bilbo. But the emphasis and the reveal of who Gallum is,

...