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Hi everyone! Sorry that in all the craziness, I neglected to post the GTW link for season 5! It is now posted on the Mythgard site. Go to: https://mythgard.org/silmfilm/ And click on the "+Live Discussion" button. That'll take you to the correct link. Sorry for the delay, but looking...

Hah! I never noticed that either! Very cool.

Yep. The Apple Podcast app is just one of many apps that accesses our podcast feed, which is quite independent. It is also up to date, so if you don't see Sessions 104-106, that's because iTunes is vexing. On Overcast (my personal favorite podcast app), all of them are present. But no -- the...

How delightful! Many congratulations to you and your family, Colette! Thanks for sharing, and for joining us; it has been lovely having you with us!

Yes -- Tolkien first conceived of the palantiri while writing the sequence at Orthanc where Gandalf confronts Saruman (in the Two Towers). In typical Tolkien fashion, when that ball gets chucked off the balcony at a some wizardly head or other, Tolkien then had to figure out what the ball was...

Cross-talk is okay here. It is just in the Discord thread, where I am trying to track the comments while talking, that cross-talk adds an unnecessary additional degree of difficulty.

Bill Ferny would definitely know that Strider is in town, as Bill was in the common room for Frodo's performance, and Frodo's excuse to the company was that he had crawled over and was having a word with Strider in the corner. Ferny might have been surprised to see Strider, and the conversation...

Yes. The presence of Balrogs frequently plummeting to their deaths is one. ;)

Thanks for the link! Matthias and I were just listening to it, and we completely agree with you. "Blood on me" makes about 1000x more sense, and that live recording did clarify a lot. We'll mention it in the next episode, which we're prepping for now.

I totally agree with Jonathan, here. It isn't that Tolkien's intentions are irrelevant, but it is certainly true that his intentions at the time of writing are not the equivalent of what "actually happened" in history or something. When you read Tolkien's letters, you'll notice that in...

We'll get to this in Book III -- easily by the end of 2019. Never fear. And no -- those chapters you are looking at in the TT are the best sources for understanding Huorns.

Agreed on all this, and I'll respond here briefly as I fear opening this discussion in class (due to the likely size of the digression!). Two things I'd say: 1. My critique of the modern emphasis on "relatability" is not, in theory, a resistance to the act of imagination that Dr. J describes...

Dude. You can tell your pets to stay? Do they obey? I had no idea!

Welcome Haerangil! I'll answer this a bit here, but we'll come back to in a while when we get to the Barrow Downs. "Witch-King" means, I believe, that he is a king and also a sorcerer. So he was the greatest of the Ringwraiths and Sauron's second in command. While Sauron was recuperating...

Yes, we'll definitely talk about this as we go along, and it I'll come back to it more as it grows. We'll have our first discussions about this this week!