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Podcast: Exploring Tolkien
Episode: 136. The Lowest IQ Elves of Middle-earth? - The Hobbit #23
Description: In this very special episode, we reveal the exact barrel music sung in Thranduil’s halls as the dwarves were tossed into the river! 😉 Then, we get into the details of barrel physics, the river, and why there might be “raft-elves”.
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We also look at:
Is Thranduil a direct stand-in for Thingol?
Lots of elves live in caves…
Tolkien’s beautiful watercolor paintings inspired by this chapter.
The parallels between the Dwarves song and the Barrel song.
Why being saved by...