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:

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:

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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