by Caitlin | Jan 19, 2021 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 5, The Steward and the King
- Faramir and Eowyn meet!
- Faramir completes his hobbit pokedex
- A crown is taken from a dead man.
- A tree is found in the woods mountains
- But like…how do we KNOW Aragorn is really the king?
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by Caitlin | Dec 6, 2020 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 4, The Field of Cormallen
- Sam has a real good sense of smell
- They have to get back in to their dirty clothes
- Emmy’s favourite line in the entire book
- And, as always, Aragorn needs that drama
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by Caitlin | Nov 12, 2020 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 3, Mount Doom
- Wait, we’re still walking across Mordor?
- There’s just SO much Doom in this chapter, Rachel is very happy
- It’s already obvious that Caitlin isn’t happy with the movie adaptation
- The eagles are coming (next time)
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by Caitlin | Sep 29, 2020 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 2, The Land of Shadow
It’s time to walk across Mordor!.
More comedic orc duos!
This Nazgul wants YOUR name and number.
A gobler?
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by Caitlin | Aug 27, 2020 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 1, The Tower of Cirith Ungol
In this chapter we are back with Caitlin’s favourite Hobbit! But that still isn’t enough to save this chapter from being mostly boring.
There’s architecture. And orcs!
There’s more architecture and more orcs!
There’s a touching reunion!
Also, uh, stay until the very end after the sign off if you want to hear us continue that Redwall discussion.
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by Caitlin | Aug 7, 2020 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 10, The Black Gate Opens
In this chapter the army spends a lot of time getting to a battle…and then not much time on the battle.
Merry is left behind!
We were wrong last week about miles. Which is just typical us.
As the army retraces Frodo and Sam’s steps, how much have we forgotten from The Two Towers?
And Hobbits, man. They rock.
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by Caitlin | Jul 20, 2020 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 9, The Last Debate
It’s a chapter of standing around a talking in two different parts!
The Fellowship is reunited!…mostly.
Caitlin still doesn’t understand miles?
How far is it from Minas Tirith to the Black Gate? I have a feeling Twitter will let us know.
And Hobbits, man. They rock.
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by Caitlin | Jun 24, 2020 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 8, The Houses of Healing
Some people are healthy, and some are not. We will point out each one just in case you are confused.
We meet Tolkein’s self-insert, self-burn.
Also another woman! That we had forgotten about. Whoa.
Caitlin has her most egregious forgetting of a name to date.
And Hobbits, man. They rock.
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by Caitlin | Jun 9, 2020 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 7, The Pyre of Denethor.
Our favourite boy does just a *little* murder, and maybe a bit of treason.
Feanor, thousands of years later, still causing problems for everyone.
Murder-Suicide always seems like the best plan, right?
We still don’t understand how the afterlife works in MiddeEarth. Presumably, we never will.
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by Caitlin | May 20, 2020 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 6, The Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
Dernhelm is a girl? What?
Who killed the Witchking? Why was there a prophesy about that?
And, most importantly, Gimli has his axe.
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