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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Fixing The Lord of the Rings
Description: The Shire, Middle Earth. Gandalf's got a plan to destroy the One Ring. Tan thinks it's rubbish. Arriving as "Thokk the Unthinkable" — a friendly orc, which is already a contradiction — Tan's here to fix Tolkien's plot holes. The Fellowship spent three books and eleven hours of cinema walking the Ring to Mount Doom. Tan reckons he could sort it in about twenty minutes. It involves the Eagles.
PastMaster goes off-piste, dragging the AI Game Master out of history and into Middle Earth. Tan's pitch to Gandalf: skip the walking, fly the Ring to Mount Doom on the Eagl...