Jonah
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EPISODE 20
SPIRITUAL THEME: SPIRITUAL POWER: PLACES: THE SHIRE
MORAL THEME: HOBBIT VIRTUES: RESISTANCE TO EVIL
SPIRITUAL THEME: SPIRITUAL POWER: PLACES: THE SHIRE
MORAL THEME: HOBBIT VIRTUES: RESISTANCE TO EVIL
- TEXT: "They waited anxiously for him to go on . . . riding over my land so bold." and "'"Be off!" I said' . . . 'What do you think of that?'" (Chapter 4, pp. 91-92, slide "Notes and Queries 1," first considered in Episode 17, slides "A Funny Customer" and "The Stoutness of Farmer Maggot")
- EPISODE SUMMARY: A3"The Nazgûl could employ . . ." and A4"Instead they try to . . ." A6"Fear and intimidation tactics don't really seem to work . . ." and A7"They actually need the hobbits' cooperation . . ."
- EPISODE:
- A3"It does seem that they proceed both by fear and intimidation, and by promises of reward. Now, fear and intimidation is not their go-to ploy. We see that happening in other places. We will see, for instance, some fear and intimidation at work in the Bree land when we get there. But it's interesting, I think, that they don't do that with the hobbits." (7:45-8:20)
- A4"The Nazgûl's number one approach with Farmer Maggot is not just to terrify him and cow him into answering; It's to wheedle. It's to be polite, try to get hime to help. He even promises to bribe him" (8:22-8:38)
- A6"One thing that's kind of interesting to me is the fact that - and we'll talk about this a little bit more later on - we don't really see any hobbits on whom the fear and intimidation thing works. We've seen the Black Riders interact verbally with two hobbits . . . Gaffer Gamgee and Farmer Maggot, and both of them were pretty uppity and cheeky in their dealings with the Nazgûl. So, it seems certainly that the flattery thing is a better strategy (9:25-10:04)
- A7"But I do also think it has something to do with the hobbits too. They're trying to do a hard thing . . . they're trying to find one hobbit . . . and without the cooperation of the other hobbits, they're going to have a difficult time . . . Freda asks, 'What about Fatty Bolger?' We'll get to him and see what happens there." (10:07-10:44)
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