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Sep
Guest
Could Frodo's dream of Gandalf at Isengard be related at all to his being named Elf-friend by Gildor? We're told that Frodo was often troubled by the sound of the sea in his dreams, but in the nights following his encounter with the Elves near Woodhall, he has a series of apparently Faërian visions. In earlier episodes, much has been made of Gildor's naming Frodo as an Elf-friend, so maybe this encounter with Faërie has heightened his sensitivity to dreams and the spiritual realm?
(Just to introduce myself, I've been following along with the series asynchronously for a little while now after an intensive 3-month catch-up of the first 150 episodes, so a lot of the discussions from a few years back are relatively fresh on my mind. During the pandemic, I've been rediscovering the Tolkien Professor podcast, which I first listened to as an early teenager during the Washington College lecture class on Tolkien. Catching up with all this material has been a God-send to listen to while working from home, and a delightful throw-back to those days when I was just starting to dip my toes into Tolkien's works!)
(Just to introduce myself, I've been following along with the series asynchronously for a little while now after an intensive 3-month catch-up of the first 150 episodes, so a lot of the discussions from a few years back are relatively fresh on my mind. During the pandemic, I've been rediscovering the Tolkien Professor podcast, which I first listened to as an early teenager during the Washington College lecture class on Tolkien. Catching up with all this material has been a God-send to listen to while working from home, and a delightful throw-back to those days when I was just starting to dip my toes into Tolkien's works!)