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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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As Tuor continues following Voronwë, they cross paths with a mysterious black bladed warrior and the dangers of the enemy become more dire.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lord of the Rings lore cast, the show that explores the background of Tolkien's amazing world from the very beginning. Today I'm going to ask you a question. |
0:28.4 | I'm going to start this episode with this question specifically. |
0:32.9 | If you were writing the histories of Middle Earth, if you were J.R.R. Tolkien, and you conceived of a |
0:42.9 | moment in the history where the paths of the two most important, or potentially, two of the |
0:50.6 | most important characters cross. |
0:56.3 | How would you write that? |
0:58.7 | What would you have happen? |
1:01.9 | What would you have them say to each other? |
1:04.4 | Would there be interactions? |
1:06.9 | Would they help each other out in some way? |
1:10.0 | Would they work toward some sort of common goal? |
1:11.8 | Or maybe against each other because there's a misunderstanding? J.R.R. Tolkien answered this question when he wrote this section |
1:21.0 | of Tours' story. Because Tours, as I've mentioned before, was Cousins with Turin, two of the most important |
1:31.7 | characters in all of the first age, if not all of the stories altogether. |
1:37.9 | And I raise this question because I feel like what Tolkien does here is in stark contrast to what most of us would do. |
1:49.3 | Most current day writers might also do. |
1:52.6 | We live in a post-MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe kind of world where, whether it's TV shows |
2:00.5 | or movies, you're always drawing connections |
2:03.7 | between the different stories and the different characters. You're setting up moments for |
2:08.9 | them to interact in interesting and dynamic ways that further both of their stories simultaneously. |
2:16.1 | This is the world we live in today. |
2:19.2 | And Tolkien could have gone down that route, but he doesn't. |
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