Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of Tolkien's amazing J.R.R. Tolkien does so well in his stories is that he relies on the fundamental things about being human that we are most scared of, the things that bother us the most.

And sure, there's a dragon at the end of the story.

There's a war.

But how often in your own life do you go to war?

Do you confront a dragon or something that feels like a dragon?

Most days, you confront other things, inconveniences, uncomfortableness, and other more mundane things.

Can you think of a day where you did not feel hungry at some point?

Maybe you woke up in the morning and thought, wow, I could really go for some breakfast.

Or maybe you worked a little bit longer in the day and by the time dinner came around, you were really ready to eat.

Now, of course, I'm not talking about real hunger.

I'm not talking about starvation.

I'm not talking about the kinds of things that, heck, the dwarves and Bilba would feel on their journey as they're running out of food in their packs or water.

I'm talking about the things that we can relate to.

We have been hungry, and most days you feel hungry.

How many times have you, especially in your childhood, gone to bed and noticed how uncomfortable

the dark is?

Most nights, maybe? These are all things that we all experience. These are all things that

play to our deeply seated, subconscious fears. Scientists will tell you that the reason why we

fear the dark is because of evolutionary benefit. Children who were afraid of the dark did not wander

off into the dark and get eaten by predators. They stayed with their family or with their community.

The uncomfortableness of hunger drove people to take action to feed themselves.

These are bare minimum requirements for survival.

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