On the Empire Podcast this week, we're all about the Hobbit.

We review it, we boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew, and we talk to three of its stars,

Martin Freeman, Hobbit himself, Richard Armitage, Thorin, Oak and Shield, and Andy Circus,

aka Golem.

But there's other things as well.

So come in, warm yourself by the fire, have some lemon spread, and settle in for the

night.

Hello, pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, and welcome to the Empire Podcast.

The only movie podcast that's just like Idris Elbe, Pacific Rim, is Cancheline Leopocalypse,

cause we've got a delivery from Emerson, and we've got a way in between 8 and 5 that

I would specify what time they arrive, so we call it Gensel.

Leopocalypse.

Anyway, I'm joined by three members of the podcast Fellowship, who will accompany me on a

metaphorical quest to drop movie chat and the heart of a burning pod volcano.

It's also a recent Lord of the Rings expert, a man who knows his ballerogs from his bombadils,

but never mind what he calls his testicles.

He's ventured here for the darkest depths of the land, known as Saf of the River.

Well done for making it one piece, Nick Desemlin.

Yes, Peckham Wright is fair teaming with Oak.

But I'm here.

I'm here.

You're here.

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