Ep 136 - LOTR: The Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

It is time to ascend Mount Doom and end our time in Middle-Earth with Tolkien's The Return of the King. Many goodbyes are said; scores are settled; and brains are filled with dense volumes of poetry and lore.

Other talking points include birthday songs and copyright law, King Charlie Brown, the breaking of oaths, and High Fantasy football.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	I know what we want to talk about.
0:58.2	Happy birthday to you.
1:04.8	Happy birthday to you.
1:11.2	This song is free.
1:17.6	Welcome to Overdoot.
1:18.4	This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
1:20.9	My name is Craig and I'm a birthday boy.
1:23.0	My name is Andrew.
1:24.0	You were a birthday boy.
1:25.0	That's true.
1:26.0	I wasn't birthday boy.
1:27.0	Now thanks to time passing and the law, Johnny Law, you can sing that to me.
1:35.6	Yeah, it's a public domain now.
1:37.8	You don't have to pay whoever it was who was going around demanding money from everybody
1:42.0	who's saying, Happy Birthday.
1:43.5	Yeah, I guess that's it.
1:45.0	Is it, do we know what's public domain?
1:47.2	Do we at least know that whoever was holding a copyright certainly was like the undruking
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