Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show reading through the story of Turin again.

And this is a concept that hasn't occurred to me until very recently.

This isn't something that occurred to me 15 years ago when the children of Huron came out,

and I reread the story in its full length.

This is something that just now is occurring to me.

And I think it comes from a place of getting more and more into, or at least attempting

to get more and more into Tolkien's mind and seeing the world the way that he may have

seen the world, understanding the perspective that he has on the nature of the world around him.

As somebody who, and we've talked about this before, was born in the 1800s,

who watched the inventions of modern industry take over the world, saw two world wars, the threat of the atom bomb, all of those things.

And as with any literature or literary critique, I guess you could say, or even artistic

interpretation of anything, any form of art.

There are layers to that.

There's the intentions of the artist, but then there are the interpretations of the consumers of the art form.

And the way that we, coming at it through our perspectives, seeing it through our lenses, can take things from the work that may not have originally been intended by the author, if that makes sense.

You and I are not going to read or watch or listen to the same piece of artwork and get the same

thing out of it because we come at it from different angles. So with all that said, this might

just be my perspective on the way the world is affecting me and the nature of things, or maybe there's a

little bit more truth, or maybe it's somewhere in the middle. That's probably what's most likely

happening here. So what is it I'm talking about? The story of Turin, as we're going to continue today, is a story about

struggling with the evil of the world in a desperate time where things seem darker than they may

have ever seemed before. Let that sink in for a moment.

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