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27. B2:C1- Many Meetings - [LoTR Read Along]

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Release Date: 04/20/2017

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The Nicks wake from their slumber to find themselves in Rivendell where they must try and remember their family, meet new friends, and see old friends in a new light. 

THIS JUST IN!

THE ENEMY HAS GONE TO WAR!  

OPENLY DECLARING HIMSELF,
THE DECEIVER SENDS HIS 9 WRAITHS AFTER OUR HEROES.  
FRODO IS WOUNDED AND ON THE BRINK.
A MYSTERIOUS ELF LORD COMES TO HIS AID.

AFTER LENGTHY PURSUIT ACROSS MILES OF COUNTRY THE SERVANTS OF THE ENEMY DRAW CLOSER THAN COMFORT ALLOWS.  

NEARING RIVENDELL GLORFINDEL, THE ELF LORD, CALLS ON ANCIENT POWERS COMBAT THE ENEMY IN PURSUIT.  

WILL HIS PLAN PLAY OUT?  

WILL FRODO, OUR HERO, SURVIVE THE DAY?

Maps

Map of Middle-earth 

LoTRproject.com interactive map - Caution: spoilers for new readers!

Notes for this episode

Many Meetings

  • Gandalf - what happened at the Ford - the true nature of Frodo’s injury/ringwraiths - “Delayed?” - comments about Weathertop - lost time
  • Sam and the Hobbits - Sam has stayed with him each of the 4 days… barely left his side.
  • Pippin - “The Lord of the Ring” - Gandalf jumps on that. “Only one Lord of the Ring.”
  • The banquet - A banquet fit for the high lords of old.
  • Elrond - ageless. Neither young nor old. At his one side sat Gandalf, at the other Glorfindel.
  • Glorfindel - a hero!
  • Gandalf again - he looks like a lord of old.
  • Arwen - lady Arwen. Undomiel. Evenstar.  Her birth and rise mark the close of the "Elven Chapter" in Middle-earth.
  • Sam wanted to wait on Frodo during the banquet. - Frodo is seated upon many fine cushions to give him the same “height”.
  • Gloin - THE Gloin. Companion of Thorin Oakenshield. - He talks a lot. Very excited to find a courteous “listener” in Frodo. - They swap stories about their homelands.
  • The Hall of Fire - a place of quiet and reflection… unless it's feast or banquet time.  Then it’s a place of songs and stories!
  • Stranger in the corner -- Bilbo! - The Ring
  • Strider-Aragorn-Dunadan
  • The Twins /Elladan and Elrohir,  Elrond’s twin sons. Absent from the banquet
  • Earendil - in the song -
  • Good old hobbit-talk
  • BEDTIME!

 Thoughts

  • “I wish you could have held out at Weathertop.”
    • (NJ - if he had not revealed himself by way of the Ring, would they have been able to fight them off with fire without them making an attack on Frodo?)
  • “There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil.”
    • “Some are greater than I am. Against some, I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming. The Morgul-lord and his Black Riders have come forth. War is preparing!”
    • (NJ - The powers of the world, their interaction with the people of the world has been greatly reduced in recent millennia. Yet we see these little hints that there is something larger happening in the story.)
  • “I thought, well, that they (the Big People) were just big and rather stupid: kind and stupid like Butterbur; or stupid and wicked like Bill Ferny”
    • “You don’t know much even about them if you think old Barliman is stupid,”
  • “I have known strong warriors of the Big People who would quickly have been overcome by that splinter, which you bore for seventeen days.”
    • (NJ - often we are reminded that there is more to the Hobbits than meets the eye)
  • Ringwraiths
    • Real horses
    • Real cloaks - to give shape to their nothingness
    • (NJ - nothing in the Seen, something in the Unseen)
  • Fragment of the blade
    • Frodo turning Wraith
    • With the ring on - like standing halfway between the worlds
  • “Those who have dwelt in the Blessed Realm live at once in both worlds, and against both the Seen and the Unseen they have great power.”
    • Blessed Realm
    • Seen and Unseen

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