The Bee Reads LOTR Episode 6: A Conspiracy and an Old Forest
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Kyle, Dan, and Jonathan Watson, of TheOneRing.Com, guide you to Crickhollow, where Samwise Gamgee’s conspiracy is unmasked, and then on to a spooky ancient forest that tries to kill the hobbits. Then, as Kyle puts it, a “cracked out hobo” comes to rescue them. It’s two chapters this week on The Babylon Bee Reads The Lord of the Rings!
Chapter summaries: Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry make it to the tucked away house in Crickhollow and also meet Fatty who with Merry has been getting the house ready. The three travellers all bathe together and sing (in separate tubs), eat food, and Frodo finds out that his friends have known all along about the conspiracy to get the ring out of the Shire. Their plan is to sneak out through a small gate in the hedge that separates Buckland from the Old Forest. We learn that the Forest is very much alive and at enmity with the “colonizers” of Buckland. The four hobbits going through the Old Forest quickly find the forest against them! Old Man Willow causes the hobbits to fall asleep, traps Merry and Pippin within its cracks, and almost drowns Frodo. A cracked out hobo in the woods comes to their rescue!
Some questions or themes:
The fellowship seems to be borne in Chapter 5. Merry and Pippin refuse to let Frodo rush off into danger without them coming too.
The stouthearted loyalty of the hobbits in their friendship
The Forest being alive and at enmity and able to react to the trespassers
Intro to Tom Bombadil
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the heart of the Shire, through the depths of Moria, to the ends of Middle-earth, |
| 0:11.0 | it's the Babylon B, reads the Lord of the Rings, |
| 0:19.0 | with your hosts, Kyle Man, and Dan Coats. |
| 0:28.0 | Yes, everybody. Welcome to the Babylon B, reads the Lord of the Rings, |
| 0:32.0 | a podcast where the Babylon B reads the Lord of the Rings. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Kyle Man, editor-in-chief of the Babylon B, |
| 0:39.0 | and this is Dan Coats, who's a producer of the Babylon B, |
| 0:41.0 | in Jonathan Watson, who is the editor in the Dark Lord of the One Ring.com. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah. I'm trying to think of a good retort, |
| 0:51.0 | but maybe the bright light of the One Ring, the shining trees, |
| 0:54.0 | the one of the... |
| 0:56.0 | You're probably not talking about the One Ring, so I'm already down the dark path. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, you named your site The One Ring. Can you defend that? |
| 1:03.0 | So, in this podcast, we read through about a chapter a week. |
| 1:10.0 | Now, this week, we're going to go through two chapters. |
| 1:13.0 | You haven't been following along. Go back to the beginning. |
| 1:15.0 | You can watch all the episodes. You can follow along with the Lord of the Rings. |
| 1:19.0 | So, right now, we are in a conspiracy unmasked, |
| 1:22.0 | which is chapter five-ish, chapter five, and we're also going to be going through the old forest, |
| 1:27.0 | which is chapter six, which will lead us to a very exciting special episode next week. |
| 1:32.0 | Tom Bombado. |
| 1:35.0 | Tom Bombado. |
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