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There were two towers. Which two? The movie will clearly tell you. We walk through the majestic adventures of hobbits and ents, men and, uh, more hobbits, exploring what it is like to watch a movie that feels more Sam Raimi than anything else.\

Check it out in the Shelved By Genre bonusode post!

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David Brett

Did y’all decide if you’re gonna do The War of Rohirrim during The mid-Silmarillion bonus-sode?

Emily

I'm only 2 and a half minutes in so IDK if you talk about it more but they actually did have Arwen show up with the other elves but she was ultimately cut from it entirely.

Clay Cobb

So many bad choices: Faramir same as Boromir, and Theodan same as Denethor. Hugo Weaving is the worst elf casting ever; he looks like he works for Nixon. But the Jar Jaring of Gimli is really unforgivable. The Rings of Power, which gets a lot of mostly disingenuous hate, actual does right by the dwarves.

Jason

https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-battle-of-helms-deep/ I figured anyone listening to this would be interested in a different style of close read of the LotR. In this case, its a military historian using Helm's Deep (and elsewhere on the blog Minas Tirith) as a jumping off point to teach military history concepts. Also key characterization details: he asserts that Tolkien absolutely understands how medieval logistics works and the book campaigns all hold together, and that Saruman is basically a techbro.