209: FotR 14: The Hunt for Gollum (as explained by Gandalf)
Lord of the Rings Lorecast - J.R.R. Tolkien's World & Writings Explained
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This is the part of Gandalf's conversation with Frodo where he basically outlines Gollum's journey, and what will probably be the main plot of the movie "The Hunt for Gollum."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of |
| 0:11.0 | Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning. In today's episode, we're doing things a little bit differently. |
| 0:29.1 | We are at the point in Gandalf and Frodo's conversation, where Gandalf basically lays out |
| 0:34.9 | everywhere Gollum went after Bilbo took the ring and left the cave. |
| 0:40.3 | And if you've been keeping up with any news about upcoming movies like The Hunt for Gollum, |
| 0:46.3 | this is exactly the part of the story where we first get a description about everywhere |
| 0:51.3 | Gullum went and the events surrounding that, which is basically |
| 0:56.2 | as far as I can tell the plot of the movie that they are about to start filming next month. |
| 1:02.2 | So in this introduction section, I'm going to be going over some of the things that we know, |
| 1:06.4 | everything that I can pull together, that we know about this movie so that we can have that |
| 1:10.5 | in mind as we get |
| 1:11.8 | through this section of the story and try to understand possibly what we're going to see in the |
| 1:18.3 | movie. And of course, I'll point out some of the things, some of the foreshadowing, some of the |
| 1:22.4 | details. I mean, they bring up Aragorn already in the story, even though we're nowhere near meeting |
| 1:28.3 | Strider yet. |
| 1:29.5 | So of course, there's some juicy bits. |
| 1:30.9 | But here, let's get into it. |
| 1:32.3 | What do we know about the hunt for Gallum? |
| 1:35.7 | So as of the middle of April, 2026, when I'm recording this right now, in case you're |
| 1:41.0 | listening in the future, right now we know that it is set for theatrical |
| 1:45.0 | release on December 17th, 2027, a year and a half from now. So the movie's still quite a ways out. |
| 1:54.1 | And it's being directed by Andy Circus, who, as most of us would probably recognize, is the guy who brought Gollum to life. |
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