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every home. Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning.

Every good author knows that you need to vary the pace of your story.

There will be frantic moments where lots of things happen, conflict, and then resolution.

And then there will be moments of quiet, slow times, where things don't seem to happen much at all, a time to take a breath,

a time to reflect on what has happened so far with the story, or in Tolkien's case, at least

at this point of The Hobbit, a time to focus in a little bit more on what's going on both with the characters and with the world.

One of the things that Tolkien does so well is to use these slower moments in order to build,

to build our understanding of the characters, but even more importantly, to build out the world that those characters are in.

He doesn't just create a room for the characters to wander into.

He gives the room a name.

He gives it a reason for its existence.

He doesn't just come up with the idea that, oh, well, the characters need, in this case, to go out to a place where they can watch over the land around them in case the dragon comes back.

But he gives us a reason why those things are there.

Why are there watchtowers?

Well, it would make sense that they would exist and that there would be more than one and that they would be in ruin and that there would be a reason why maybe they didn't work the first time.

And we go into that in this section of the story.

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