35. Beren and Luthien Part 8: Doom Unstoppable

Lord of the Rings Lorecast

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🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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A journey with the Eagles, a time of healing, and an unexpected conversation with a King.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lorecast, the show that explores, the eagles show up just at the right time.
0:38.0	They literally swoop in in order to save the day.
0:44.1	A sort of deus ex machina.
0:47.6	You've probably heard that term before.
0:50.0	It means God in the machine.
0:53.2	Almost like the creator himself is behind the scenes pulling the strings.
0:58.6	And in this case, this might be one of those moments.
1:03.3	Always remember that the Eagles are Manway's creation.
1:09.2	Manway was the one who is closest to Oluvatar, or at least understood the most of
1:18.3	Eluvatar's will.
1:21.2	A critic of Tolkien might say, well, yeah, he's obviously, this is the hand of the creator or the author fixing a situation
1:30.3	that would be too difficult to fix otherwise.
1:33.3	And so you send in the Eagles and the same critics have even leveled things against the
1:38.3	Lord of the Rings.
1:39.3	Let's just send the Eagles in at the end.
1:42.3	Or why didn't the Eagles just take the ring to Mountain Doom?
1:46.4	How come that didn't work out?
1:48.5	Well, that's not the way these things work.
1:52.2	Tolkien would say, at least I believe, that the Eagles have a mind of their own.
1:57.9	The Eagles are not just a travel service that you can call at a whim.
2:03.5	Sometimes they help Gandalf out, but that's because they have a relationship with Gandalf.
2:08.9	Sometimes they do things because they just happen to be in the right place at the right time.
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