Episode 64: Háma For President 2020
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter 6; The King of the Golden Hall.
Apologies about the audio issue with this weeks episode!
Characters
- Gandalf – Stormcrow, The White Rider
- Aragorn – Heir of Elendil
- Gimli – a dwarf
- Legolas – an elf
- Théoden – King of the Golden Hall (and, you know, Rohan)
- Háma – a good good doorwarden and errand boy of Meduseld
- Grima Wormtongue – sleezeball
- Éomer – Theoden’s Sister-son
- Éowyn – Theoden’s Sister-daughter
Here is a map of the area of Rohan and Isengard and fangorn so we can see where all of our main players are currently in relation to one another.
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Read MoreEpisode 63: A Great Betrayal
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy, discuss The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Five, The White Rider
Characers
- Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas – The Three Hunters
- Gandalf – THE WHITE!
- Shadowfax
- Hasufel and Arod
Mentions of:
- Sauron
- Saruman
- Gwaihir
- Merry and Pippin
- Galadriel
- Treebeard and Ents
- Balrog, Durin’s Bane
The Journey
The entirety of this chapter, much like last week, takes place within Fangorn, other than the brief beginning which is just outside the forest.
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Read MoreEpisode 62: The Birds and the Bees and the Trees
This week Caitlin and Rachel and Emmy discuss Chapter 4 of Book Three of the Two Towers, Treebeard.
Characters:
- Pippin and Merry – Hobbits!
- Treebeard – an Ent! Guardian of the forest
- Quickbeam – another Ent, younger, hastier.
- Entwives – the female Ents.
- Mentions of Saruman and Gandalf
The Journey
The entirety of this chapter takes place within Fangorn Forest!
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Read MoreEpisode 61: The Apple of His Eye
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter 3: The Uruk-hai.
Characters
- Merry and Pippin – Hobbit Hostages
- Ugluk – the leader of the Uruk-hai from Isengard
- Grishnakh – the leader of the orcs from Mordor
- Various other orcs
The Journey
If you ever want to check the path of any characters or events you can explore the exhaustive map at LOTR Project
Like last week, I have snapped a picture of Merry and Pippin’s journey from the Middle-Earth Atlas, while trying to avoid spoilers.
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Read MoreEpisode 60: Wingfoot Longshanks…Potter?
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers, Chapter 2, The Riders of Rohan
Characters
- Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas – the Three Hunters, the Fellowship leftovers
- Eomer – The Third Marshall of the RIddermark, a man of Rohan.
- Eothain – a man of Eomer’s company.
- Arod and Hasufel – New horses!
- Theoden – we only get a mention of him, but he is the King of Rohan.
The Journey
The Three Hunters run down from Emyn Muil and across the Eastemnet of Rohan back north towards Isengard, and end their journey on the outskirts of Fangorn Forest.
Here you can see the borders of Rohan as a whole.
I took a picture of the path of the Three Hunters in the Atlas, while attempting to avoid spoilers.
If you ever want to check the path of any characters or events you can explore the exhaustive map at LOTR Project
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Read MoreEpisode 59: Gimli is my Baby
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers, Book 3: Chapter 1 The Departure of Boromir.
Characters
- Aragorn – still indecisive
- Legolas – doesn’t let a friend sing alone
- Gimli – really just wants to get on with it
- Boromir – is dead.
Locations
The Three Hunters are still around Amon Hen for this for this chapter. They take off toward the “East Wall” of Rohan at the end of the chapter.
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Read MoreBonus Episode: Down to Two
Emmy is on vacation, so Caitlin and Rachel have a short discussion without her!
- How did we all meet? It’s a mystery.
- We like other books!
- What makes a fantasy movie?
- WATCH WILLOW!
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