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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by Caitlin | Aug 21, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Book Three, Chapter Ten of the Two Towers, The Voice of Saruman
Characters
- Gandalf – OUR Wizard
- Saruman – That OTHER Wizard. Has a seductive voice.
- Merry/Pippin – The best gate keepers there ever were.
- Aragorn/Legolas/Gimli – the hunters, just being there, representing the three races of Middle Earth (even though there are more)
- Treebeard – In charge of Isengard
- Théoden – King of Rohan
- Éomer – Théoden’s nephew and heir.
- Grima Wormtongue – a man with terrible aim
No maps this week as all the action takes place within Isengard. Once again. Two chapters in a row with no walking. Weird.
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by Caitlin | Aug 14, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Tolkien
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss Book Three, Chapter Nine of the Two Towers, Flotsam and Jetsam
Characters
- Merry and Pippin – hobbit friends, provide food, and tell a story
- Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli – the hunters find their quarry, and listen to a story
- Saruman – The Mean Wizard
- Gandalf – The Nice Wizard
- Treebeard – Ent, the one with the plan
- Quickbeam – Ent who ALMOST strangles the Tree-Killer
- Grima Wormtongue – a douchenozel
No maps this week as all the action takes place within Isengard. No traveling at all. They don’t even really move around within Isengard.
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by Caitlin | Aug 7, 2019 | Podcast, The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers
This week Caitlin, Rachel, and Emmy discuss The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter IX, The Road to Isengard
Characters
- Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas – the Three Hunters, reaching the end of their hunt
- Gandalf – mysterious yet powerful wizard
- Théoden – King of Rohan
- Éomer – Théoden’s nephew and heir
- Háma – no longer able to run for President.
- Treebeard – and Ent!
- Quickbeam – another Ent!
- Merry and Pippin – the Hobbits we’ve been searching for!
Maps
Check out the map here to see how Fangorn Forest relates to the River Isen and Isengard and get an idea of how far the trees traveled.
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