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In this episode, the ladies are back to break down Ian McKellen's delightful blog about his time filming LOTR and recent casting news out of the Cube (Amazon.) Then, for the meat of the episode, the salted pork if you will, we speak with yet another bona fide very smart person, Sarah's good bud Rachel, whose dissertation included an interesting discussion of madness in LOTR. We also make the case for Pippin in this episode, and Hobbit wisdom more generally. Then to close out, our Shadowfact deals with the Rings of Power and the Unseen - spooky. Thanks for listening!

In this episode, Sarah and Caity have a very special guest on - Caity's sister Anna! Anna is a professional opera singer and bona fide music nerd, so we had her on to discuss Howard Shore's gorgeous score to Peter Jackson's LOTR Trilogy. We also discuss recent news, as usual, and our Shadowfact this week answers the question "Why do I have to read so many songs when I read The Lord of the Rings??" Sorry for any Khuzdul singing attempted in this episode

If you want to follow along, a link to a Spotify playlist can be found below. If you use a different platform for music, or none at all, the songs we chose are:
1. Khazad-dum
2. Gilraen's Memorial
3. The Passing of the Elves
4. Mount Doom

Links:
1. Why does JRR Tolkien Put So Many Songs Into his Books?: https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-does-j-r-r-tolkien-put-so-many-songs-into-his-books/

2. Spotify Playlist with all songs: https://open.spotify.com/user/125795843/playlist/7o1Dy86RLNXkcUwOTVlK8t?si=wsKlqW8wR_-KmmEGlIpDPw