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059 - The Fellowship Reunites After Mount Doom in "The Field of Cormallen" (opens the original)
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This week on Fool of a Took, we’re reading "The Field of Cormallen", Chapter 4 of Book Six of The Return of the King, and after everything Tolkien has put us through, we finally get to be happy for a minute. We jump back to the Black Gate just as Sauron realizes what’s happening at Mount Doom, the Eagles show up, and his entire army starts falling apart. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam are sitting on the side of an erupting volcano waiting to die until Gandalf and the Eagles swoop in and save them. Sam
058 - Frodo Fails to Destroy the Ring Inside "Mount Doom" (opens the original)
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After two years of reading The Lord of the Rings, we’re finally here. This week, we discuss book 6, chapter 3: Mount Doom from The Return of the King. We get into Sam literally carrying Frodo up the mountain, the Ring completely taking over, Gollum showing up at exactly the right (or wrong) time, and Frodo making it all the way to the finish line… only to completely blow it. We also argue about whether Frodo actually deserves credit for completing the quest, what the hell happens to the Nazgûl,
057 - Frodo Is Running on Empty in "The Land of Shadow" (opens the original)
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Frodo and Sam are finally inside Mordor as we discuss “The Land of Shadow,” Chapter 2 of Book Six of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. After escaping the Tower of Cirith Ungol, Frodo and Sam make their way deeper into Mordor, only to discover that the Morgai blocks their path toward Mount Doom. Forced north through the Land of Shadow, they struggle with exhaustion, dwindling food and water, Gollum secretly following them, and the growing weight of the One Ring. Sam
056 - Everybody’s Dead in “The Tower of Cirith Ungol” (opens the original)
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This week we discuss book 6, chapter 1: The Tower of Cirith Ungol from "The Return of the King". We’re back with Sam, and somehow things in Mordor are going both much better and much worse than expected. Sam crosses into Mordor, discovers the orcs of Cirith Ungol have mostly murdered each other, battles haunted security statues, chases an orc up approximately ten thousand stairs, and finally finds Frodo alive at the top of the tower.We also dig into Sam’s temptation by the Ring, Frodo’s brutal r
055 - One Does Simply Walk into Mordor when "The Black Gate Opens" (opens the original)
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This week we discuss book 5, chapter 10: The Black Gate Opens from "The Return of the King". The Captains of the West march straight toward Mordor on what is essentially a 7,000-man suicide mission. Along the way, Aragorn restores the symbols of Gondor, soldiers begin to break under the terror of Mordor, and Sauron patiently draws the army deeper into his trap. At the Black Gate, the Mouth of Sauron arrives with horrifying evidence that Frodo and Sam may have been captured, Gandalf refuses his t
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