Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lorecast.

I'm excited to get into today's episode because we've been talking about such grand and large ideas.

And even in the last episode, when we were bringing the elves to Valinor, we were talking

about large groups.

Remember the Vanyar, the Noldor, the Tilari, the first group, the second group, and the third group, and the

divisions of those groups. And yes, we did have some individual names. We've got the leaders of those

groups, the kings of those different groups. We have Inway, Finway, and Finway is definitely going to come up in

this episode, and Elway, and a few other names. But for the most part, we were talking about

groups. And in other previous episodes, we did talk about individuals, but those individuals

often were Valar, these large spiritual forces.

And the reason I'm excited about this episode is because for the first time in this show,

we're starting to really narrow down into individual stories, individual characters.

And in, I guess, in typical Tolkien fashion, the character that we're going to be talking

about in this episode, I think you're going to realize that, or maybe just notice,

that there are some similarities here with another character that, well, I guess this character is going to meet.

And I'm sure you can hear the birds chirping and some of these nature sounds around me.

This has been kind of the thing.

I hope you guys are into this whole setting up the episode with some settings.

But this setting around me, the nature, the pleasant sounds of Valenor, the city sounds of the elves going about their business,

walking around outside in the middle of the day.

The funny animal, whatever that was in the distance, those kinds of sounds, you know,

dealing with the regular stuff they have to do as creatures that have to eat and trade with animals and hunt and meet with other elves and go about their city business.

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