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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: 132. Evil or Elves or Both... Terror in Mirkwood : The Hobbit #20
Description: In this first half of chapter 8 of the hobbit–Flies and Spiders–Jonathan and Michael discuss the evil enchantment of Mirkwood, and if the elves might have a small part in it.
This week we also look at:
Exactly when Tolkien settled on the final names for Gandalf, Thorin, and Beorn.
Tolkien’s first foray into prosaic terror.
The meaning of the deer–and the white hart’s significance.
Bombur’s slumber–elven or evil?
The Dwarves STILL blame bilbo.
Tolkien’s use of modern analogies–only in the Hobbit and not LOTR.
How the elves still differ in Th...