Hey everyone, welcome to something a little new from us here at Tooth and Claw. As most of you know by

now, we're all pretty big fans of the Lord of the Rings universe, so we thought it'd be fun to

put together a little primer for the upcoming Rings of Power show. We kind of just did this on a

lark. We aren't really sure where we're going to post it or if we're going to do more of these

as more episodes of the show come out. So if you like this idea and you want to hear more from us,

the best place to let us know is definitely going to be over on our Instagram page. We'll have

a post up about this episode, I'm sure, and you can leave all the comments that you want at Tooth

and Claw podcast on Instagram. We also want to make it clear that this is not taking the place of

any of our normally scheduled episodes. So let's get to our first and hopefully not last episode

on the Rings of Power. All right, let's go.

Hey everyone, it's Wes, Mike and Jeff from Tooth and Claw podcast, but not an animal story for you.

That's not what we're doing today. We're doing something different and this is actually kind of

a little bit of a spin off for us because next to animals, there's another thing that all three

of us love, which is Lord of the Rings or Tolkien, Tolkien in general, not just Lord of the Rings.

Oh, wait a minute. What? You introduced us wrong. It should be Wesley, son of Gilbert, right?

Yeah, Wesley, son of Gilbert, Jeffrey, son of Gilbert, Mike, son of Christopher. I'm of Montana,

Jeff's of Montana, Mike's of many places. The land of Portland, Oregon. Yeah.

Yeah. We're talking Lord of the Rings today because it's a big week for Lord of the Rings and

for Tolkien in general. The Rings of Power, Amazon show is coming out. It seems like this could be

something that for five years gives us a lot of really great enjoyment and really creates a

immersive Tolkien world for us to all enjoy on a weekly basis or it could be a huge disappointment

and a flop. We're not really sure at this point. Yeah, we're excited. Yeah. So we kind of want to

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