Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lorecast friends.

This is Tom or Robots, and I normally don't intro the show like this.

I just wanted to give a little disclaimer.

Actually, a few things.

First of all, you could probably hear it in my

voice. I, I've got a head cold. This thing is like hitting me like, I don't know, a truck.

Is that the analogy everybody uses? Um, yeah. So I'm, I'm tough and through it. We're going to get

through this episode because we are, well, two things. It's almost Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. And I, I'm going to through it. We're going to get through this episode because we are, well, two things.

It's almost Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. And I want to make sure that those of you who are

traveling, visiting friends and family and things like that have something to listen to

because it's a big week for listening to podcasts. And secondly, we're almost done. We're almost

done with the Silmarillion.

Can you believe it?

This adventure that we started on over a year ago, it was like a year and a half ago, to get through that entire book to basically tear it apart and look at it through a magnifying

glass, and we're there.

This is the very end of the book. So I'm going to be wrapping up this episode with the last few paragraphs and they're about Gandalf and the

War of the Ring and all the eucatastrophe. That's a wonderful word. We're going to go into

that a little bit. It's going to be

good. I didn't want to miss it. And thank you for being here. Also, on the Patreon, if you are

one of our Patreon members, I posted a message asking about your thoughts about getting through

the Silberillion. And I can't even say an M because my nose is so clogged up.

But I want to hear your thoughts, because I want to highlight them in next week's show.

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