Bilbo is the only one left to save the dwarves–and to his own surprise, he’s up to the task!

This week we also look at:

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• Bilbo’s moment of transformation into the hero of the story.
  
• The size of these spiders.
  
• Tolkien’s use of spiders throughout the history of Middle-earth
  
• How Tolkien had planned for Ungoliant to die (it wasn’t by her own mouth!)
  
• What do Attercop, Tomnoddy, and Lob actually mean?
  
• How we can tell Tolkien love the history of the elves… but his heart is still with the Hobbits.
  

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

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• How we recreated Tolkien’s voice in last week’s episode.
  
• The difficulties in creating it with the right pronunciations.
  
• What Michael thought about the quality of it.
  
• Ethically… should we even do it?
  

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