Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast,

the show that explores the background of Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning. We've done enough of these episodes for you to anticipate the sounds around me, the wind on the hill, the birds chirping.

If I could make a sound for the sun shining in the sky, I would.

I don't know what that sounds like, though.

But today's episode, well, this doesn't really match.

Because if we're on the hill where Neonor has ascended in order to escape the pestilence, the toxic toxic fog that has covered the land.

And remember, the only place that she can go nearby to escape this is up the hill, the hill of spies, outside of Nargothrond.

And the world wouldn't sound like this around me right now.

In fact, it probably sounds more like this.

An uncomfortable silence.

Not even the birds would be chirping.

Because just on the other side of the hill...

Neonor comes directly face to face with Glorung, the father of all dragons.

Can you picture this? Before we get into the details of this story,

and this story today is tragic, this entire story about Turin is tragic. But this part of the

story in particular is going to be dark and potentially disturbing.

There are things in this story that do not show up in Tolkien's other works, certain types of topics, and you're going to see where this goes.

So be ready.

Be ready.

Now, Tolkien was a professional and a gentleman,

and he handles the topics like a, like a historian almost,

or like the way that they're covered in the modern recreation of ancient myths, where they're a little bit sanitized.

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