Nicholas Palazzo

It would be great to make both of them anti-Saurons. I'm not following how they are though? Except Luthien directly opposing him at Mereth Aderthad.

Do you mean in the sense that Sauron is trying to cause dissension, and Luthien and Finrod want to bring people together? (Surprisingly we haven't written much about Finrod yet.)

Luthien's opposition to Sauron, both now and in the future, is tied to personal confrontation. Finrod does something else. He gains the living service of men. Without even really trying.

Luthien is the opposite of Sauron as a "person". Finrod is the opposite of Sauron as a CEO. Haha

I'm an insomniac but I try not to stay up on purpose...
good luck, I hope everything goes well.

Sorry, I had to work early Monday morning so wasn't up. I am a night owl by preference, though!

Today I was having some intermittent connectivity problems shortly after the session was over (would have been a "404 error" back in the dark ages I think, but it showed all sorts of funky on-screen feedback).

I was having that issue too, but everything seems back to normal now.

My computer and phone both refused to connect for a couple days. It's fine now.

I think they should speed up a little bit, to be honest.

Well I just remembered you've been present for all the podcasts lately so you already know all of that.

I wasn’t there for a good portion of the last one, since I had some other things to do.

Thanks so much! Now I can include a link to it on videos!

You're welcome! :)

Great!

Yay, welcome back! We're still doing pre-planning for Season 4, and should get into actual Episodes in the new year.

I think it went well, but Season 4 is going to go on forever. We'll be lucky to finish by Labor Day next year.

They’ve been taking up more time. Season 2 was done by early April and Season 3 finished in August.

Nessa had a fever and bit of a cold, but seems to be on the mend, thank you @Haakon and @Faelivrin .

Just a heads up that tomorrow night is probably our last chance to discuss the layout for Season 4 if you wanted to do that before Nov. 2nd.

I'll try to be available tonight.

I am available, but let's see if Nick is!

It is. Not being able to function would be a problem.

I think the marathon of caring for a newborn is supposed to ease up slightly at the 6 week mark. I'm not going to say it gets easier, but new parents tend to emerge from their sleepless fog at about that time.

Yeah. I'm hoping to at least get past the "Constantly Needing a Nap" phase by then. I've consumed more caffeine in the past month than in the past decade.

Oh boy. You can do it!

Well, I have the easy job.

How did it go? Did we finish Season 3?

Yes we did! We went kind of fast through the sets section (and didn't do all of it - Eglarest and Brithombar, what happened?, and Mt Dolmed was kind of skipped over in the process) and I missed most of the music section (but it was lucky we managed that at all since Phillip had tech problems). But yes, we did! Season 4 will start mid september or end of september.

Good to know.

Yeah, so...we got through *most* of it - definitely didn't touch on the Finale yet, and I think there are likely some remaining comments regarding Episodes 10 and 11. But, to be fair...this was about as good as could be hoped for.

So about two and a half episodes left? When do we go through them?

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