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

Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning. Welcome to the show, everybody.

This is your host, Tom, or robots.

You can call me either.

And I just want to say, happy Rings of Power Day week.

I'm recording this the day after the night that the Rings of Power came out. And normally I don't

do a little intro like this to my episodes, but I thought this would be worth doing. It would

make sense. I've been debating what to record right now for a while, because there are some options, right?

The Rings of Power are out.

Do I review the first episode?

Does that put me on a pace where now I have to review an episode a week for weeks to come?

And the story as I was explaining it gets put on pause or do I continue with the

story and the details and save my thoughts and reviews for the bonus episodes.

So I've been thinking about this a lot.

I think the main reason that most of you tune into this show is for the

story. It's, it would be interesting maybe to hear my opinions about the Rings of Power Show and

maybe a deeper explanation of some of the stuff that goes on there. But I don't think that's the

main reason you're here. So in today's episode, I will continue our story with the beginning

of the story of Barron and Luthian, which is one of my favorites. I think this story is awesome.

It's going to bring together many different aspects of things that you've already heard about

on this show and that we've

talked about already. And I'll point those out as we go. So that's where we're going. We're

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