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Oof, been a tough summer for live listing to ELotR. Hope to get back to Discord in the fall...

I mentioned it in the chat at the time but it got buried quickly. One collective noun for worms is a "clew" of worms. I feel like that would be good for dragons.

Thanks! I was wondering about this last night! And in a delightful bit of serendipity/Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon, a different podcast I was listening to this morning had a host musing about whether "in a pickle" would have been a common usage in the mid-1800s. (In the context of the...

It's very much an Underpants Gnomes sort of situation, with the Wise having a total belief in the ? step.

That does seem like the way he is steering this. A "Jesus, take the wheel" sort of thing. Not in a bad or ineffective way, in a genuine, best way to do it way.

I would like for it to be very distinctive - definitely *not* of Noldor influence, unlike anything else in play in the Elf/Man sphere. The fully-informed observer would know it as dwarven, the casual observer would merely notice that it is different.,

Yeah I think I'm with you on this one Flammifer. This moment you describe would be interpreted by Boromir as the exact counsel that he came here for. Dream solved! His corruption by desire for the Ring can come later and change his mind/plans. But for now, this is the answer. (BTW, who...

I have the audiobook, and I find that you just sort of absorb it from context with enough meaning to get by.

I put it in a different post, but "send it to the West" sounds like a straightforward solution, but fails to capture a couple other practical matters. 1) Do they send Frodo? If a Mortal is on board, will the ship even be able to reach the Western Shore? 2) Do they violently strip the Ring...

It's interesting. It might be that the consequences of... surrendering (?) to estel are smaller for Men? Estel, by definition I think, is the sort of hope that pretty much never works out (or doesn't work out the way you'd like at a personal level). We see the times where it does work out...

(Missed last week, just catching up now in preparation for tomorrow night) I think Galdor has his finger on it pretty well. If Sauron were to learn that the might of the North were setting out toward the Havens, he would know the answer to the one question that has been vexing him above all...

I didn't interpret "naked" as "without a body" before reading the Silmarillion, but I always have since then.

I don't have a problem with this, other than that it doesn't really solve the "how" problem, it just pushes it back a step.

Frodo hasn't had the ring on ever, as far as we know (the last time it was ever on a finger was Bilbo's disappearing trick at his party, no?). Other than Gandalf's trick with the fire, he only has Bilbo's promise that it's been the actual Ring in his pocket all along.