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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: How the Baggins Side of Bilbo Lost : The Hobbit #3
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Bilbo loses the comfort of his home and finds that the Tookish side of his mind is starting to overcome the Baggins side
We discuss:
* The three things that pushed Bilbo over onto the Took side of his personality.
* How the Dwarven song of the Misty Mountain helps us glimpse the greater world of Middle-earth that Tolkien hadn’t integrated into The Hobbit yet.
* Golf! (and Tolkien’s philological jest)
* How Tolkien took the 3 things that defined him and created the Hobbit from it.
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