by Caitlin | Nov 20, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers: Book Four, Chapter Eight, Shelob’s Lair
Characters:
- Frodo and Sam – Spelunkers
- Gollum – it’s allllla Gollum now
- Shelob – pure and utter nightmare fuel
Characters from legend:
- Earendil – has the silmaril now…and is a star, also the aforementioned Daddy
- Melkor – original evil.
- Ungoliant – original nightmare fuel spider.
We would still very much like to hear YOUR Gollum impressions! Please email them to us and have the opportunity to choose an episode topic for us!
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by Caitlin | Nov 8, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers: Book Four, Chapter Seven, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
Characters:
- Frodo – Our hero
- Sam – Our hero wouldn’t have got far without him
Smeagollum – the hero of his own story
The Witch-King of Angmar, the Lord of the Nazgul, the Black Captain – stabbed Frodo once
Mentions:
- Galadriel – gave Frodo a very important gift
- Faramir – gave Frodo a less important gift
Characters from legend:
- Beren – Had a silmaril one time
- Earendil – has the silmaril now…and is a star
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by Caitlin | Oct 27, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers: Book Four, Chapter Six, Journey to the Crossroads
Characters:
- Faramir – gone from our pages, but not from our hearts.
- Frodo and Sam and Gollum – Our walking party.
Following the map of their journey, they walk down from Henneth Annun and end at was it labeled M10, the Crossroads.
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by Caitlin | Oct 9, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers: Book Four, Chapter Five, The Window on the West.
Characters:
- Frodo – a tricksy hobbit
- Faramir – a tricksy human
- Smeagollum – a tricksy guide
- Sam – a hobbit who just wants to do a murder, but isn’t tricksy enough
- Anborn – probably dies after this chapter
In the same map as the last couple weeks we are at Henneth Annûn, this week! (Yes, I just copy and pasted this from last week because the group hasn’t moved)
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by Caitlin | Oct 2, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers: Book Four, Chapter Five, The Window on the West.
Characters:
- Frodo – a hobbit with a secret
- Faramir – a man who wants to know the secret
- Sam – just blurts out the secret
- Mablung and Damrod – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are there
In the same map as the last couple weeks we are at Henneth Annûn, this week!
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by Caitlin | Sep 25, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers: Book Four, Chapter Four, Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit.
Characters:
- Frodo- Nap-master
- Sam – Chef
- Smeagollum – Sous Chef
- Faramir – Captain of Gondor
- Mablung and Damrod – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
In the same map as the last two weeks you can see how the Frodo/Sam journey line goes off to the side of Mordor and enters an area with trees. That’s where we are in this chapter!
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by Caitlin | Sep 18, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers: Book Four, Chapter Three, The Black Gate is Closed.
Characters:
- Frodo- Has to get into Mordor
- Sam – Will follow Frodo anywhere
- Smeagollum – super doesn’t want to go to Mordor
Here is a link to the same map as last week, continuing the trios journey across the Dead Marshes to the Black Gate
The Frodo and Sam comic we discuss
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by Caitlin | Sep 11, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers: Book Four, Chapter Two, The Passage of the Marshes.
Characters:
- Frodo- The Master of Smeagol
- Sam – The One Who Does not Trust Smeagol
- Gollum/Smeagol – is Smeagol
Here is a link to the same map as last week, continuing the trios journey across the Dead Marshes to the Black Gate
We would still very much like to hear YOUR Gollum impressions!
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by Caitlin | Sep 5, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers: Book Four, Chapter One, The Taming of Smeagol.
Characters:
- Frodo- Yay! Back to our Ringbearer!
- Sam – Yay! And his stalwart gardener!
- Gollum/Smeagol – …he’s here too. Making more pit pats!
- Maybe a black rider?
Here you can see a map of Frodo and Sam’s journey from the Breaking of the Fellowship to where they made their way through the Emyn Muil and met up with Gollum, moving toward the Dead Marshes and ultimately Mordor
Please send us your Gollum impressions! We don’t want to be alone in how bad we are! Or take this as a (very, very easy) challenge to show us up!
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by Caitlin | Aug 28, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Book Three, Chapter Eleven of the Two Towers, The Palantir
Characters
- Pippin – a hobbit who makes a bad choice and it gives him exactly what he wanted
- Merry – a hobbit who really, really just wants to sleep
- Gandalf – Wizard with answers!
- Aragorn – a man who has, maybe, just MAYBE, made a decision?
- Théoden – King of Rohan
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