Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast,

the show that explores the background of Tolkien's've heard about J.R.R. Tolkien's stories over the years,

beyond them being overly verbose or overly detailed of the locations and all of the plants and things along the way, is the critique

that the stories are just moving from one thing to run away from to another, that the plot

just kind of starts going at the beginning, it starts fairly slow, and then once it's going, it

just keeps going. And if you boil down the story to its bare bones, then maybe it appears like that.

The main characters are in danger a lot of the time. They're moving from one dangerous moment to another.

But I don't think that's a fair critique.

I think that there is a lot more going on that people don't give the story credit for.

You have moments of long discussions, and we're going to see more of those in the Lord of the Rings

than we do in the Hobbit. And of course, those get their own critiques as well. For example,

the Council of Elrond is often pointed out as being the over-leave-verbos section where

there's just so much talking and not a whole lot happening. But that doesn't happen all the time.

But what does seem to happen very regularly is this pacing, this intentional decision with the pacing,

where the characters do move from a dangerous situation to a moment of relief or even a moment of comedy,

and then on to another dangerous situation.

And we've gone over that recently with the goblins and some of the moments of pause in

between the danger and in between them being up in the trees and then saved by the eagles.

But this whole section where they meet Bjorn is clearly a moment of relief.

It is a time to take a breath.

It is a situation that is being built up as something dangerous again.

And yet we get this moment of relief. In fact, we get this moment of relief.

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