Hello there and welcome to the thinking fellow's podcast.

My name is Caleb and today I am joined by my father, Dr. Skykeith, by Adam Francisco and by Bruce Hillman, to continue our Tolkien adventure.

Much to my dad's chagrin.

If you would like to apply to be our new fourth for the Tolkien series, applications are open.

You're, like, going to cement your reputation as a crumagion, like, worse than you ever have on these episodes.

But that's okay.

We made it through the fellowship of the ring last time.

And, you know, Bruce, you came up with a good 30-second sort of synopsis.

The last time, I'm going to see.

We're going to test you on the spot.

See if you can do it again for the two towers.

So we're going to do that, and then we'll just sort of talk about standout features

of the book again. So I guess my 30 seconds on the cuff would be the fellowship is broken and

the different characters face various trials and temptations as they progress their way forward

to their goal.

Okay.

I think it's a temptation book.

I think a lot of it is,

the middle book is a lot of it is faced the idea of temptation.

Yeah, okay.

That's a good, that's a good kickoff.

I like the,

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