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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

EST127 - The King Finally Sees That Wormtongue's Been Dumping Poison In His Ear

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

Education, Reading, Morning, Bible, Christianity, History, Prayer, Devotion, Scripture, Study, Faith, Men's, Women's, Plan, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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ESTHER 7 Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Opening song, "Get It Right (Tonight)" from the album, "The Clamour and the Crash" by Jeff Foote

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0:00.0

Yeah, I heard about those Lord of the Rings books, J.R.R. Tolkien.

0:09.2

He's a Christian fellow and he lived in England a long time ago, 100 years.

0:14.4

And he had an idea to write stories about a made up place with made up races of creatures

0:21.1

and whatnot.

0:22.1

It was really, really good.

0:23.1

There was a whole movie and everything about it that came out here a few years ago.

0:26.6

A lot of people really liked it.

0:28.6

And in that movie and in that book, there's a character in the middle whose name is Wormtung.

0:35.3

It's actually his name.

0:37.0

And his job is advisor to the king, King Theodin, the king of Rohan.

0:43.1

And what happens is that you meet this guy, Wormtung.

0:46.8

And you realize right off the bat, it's the viewer or the reader, the bad dude is, he's

0:51.4

bad.

0:52.9

You know it.

0:53.9

Tolkien, he completely makes, I mean, he makes no effort whatsoever to disguise it.

0:58.8

The guy's name is Wormtung for crying out loud.

1:01.7

You can tell he's horrible.

1:03.4

Now, of course, immediately you wondered yourself, now the king of Rohan came to accept the

1:09.8

council of the man whose last name is Wormtung.

1:14.8

You would think that when a guy like that shows up and says, hello, I was inquiring about

1:21.0

the chief advisor position that you advertised in the thrifty nickel.

1:26.4

I brought my resume and the king's like, well, let's take a look at that.

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