The 2nd half of “Riddles in the Dark” is the most rewritten part of The Hobbit in the 1951 rewrite!  And it’s where Bilbo takes a giant leap (so to speak) into the future of his adventure. In this episode we look at:

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• Why is the riddle game so sacred?  Where does it come from?
  
• What might’ve inspired Tolkien to create Gollum.
  
• How Tolkien shows us Gollum’s 2 minds.
  
• How Tolkien’s expert prose reveals Bilbo’s pity.
  
• How invisible gold rings have quite the literary history.
  
• How Peter Jackson missed an opportunity in filming Bilbo’s escape from the Misty Mountains.
  

In our extended episode (available for our members) we talk about:

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• Whether it’s the objects that make the adventurer (like a ring or a sword), or does there have to be an adventurer there already?
  
• We make some War of the Rohirrim predictions.
  

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