If you're don't know anything about or care anything for the Lord of the Rings trilogy

you're gonna be fine here just bear with me for the first couple of seconds.

One of my favorite parts of the whole Lord of the Rings story

is when the characters get together at Rivendell

for the first time, they don't really know each other yet, maybe just a little bit by reputation.

And like, we got this great big situation here, we got this thing that we need to accomplish that we have to go out and do, but it's hard, and it's dangerous.

And then one member at a time the Fellowship of the Ring

take shape as each additional member is like all right I'm in I'll help you

accomplish the dangerous important thing and when you read that for the first time or watch it for

the first time you don't get the significance of who the fellowship is but any hypothetical person who was well acquainted with the world of Middle Earth or lived

in that neck of the woods would have been like what that's your team? I mean, this is a bold move. I don't know how this is going to work.

You've got age old enemies here, cultural enemies, the dwarves and the

Elves like these are blood enemies they had it out one feels betrayed by the other one feels superior to the other and then you have the short thing with the dwarves and I understand how that could maybe

king mystery man, who could relate to things like that.

And then you've got this long lost maybe king mystery man rogue who people are not sure of. I don't know if he's sketchy or not or if he can be

reformed into leading in the way he would need to lead to make this thing go. You got these

four little tiny people who are

barefoot. They didn't even bring shoes to the thing. What could they possibly

contribute? You've got a super duper old guy who talks to butterflies. I don't

know if you really want to bring the geriatric along for your sword fighting adventure, but okie-doke.

And then you've got a guy who is the son of a crazy man who has political aspirations to permanently occupy a

throne that isn't really his to occupy at all and it looks like he wants nothing

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