A Tale of Two Rings

03/24/22 • 82 min

The chapter where everything changes (between 1937 and 1951, that is). Gollum! and the Ring! Riddles and all of their history, and a look at the competing theologies of Comfort and Destruction.
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Chapter 5 – A Tale of Two Rings
1. The Episode you’re about to hear really should be two episodes. I almost recorded it as such. We have talked before in this podcast about the various incarnations of The Hobbit , about how there was the initial fragment, written around 1930, that used some different names and had more in common with modern earth that Middle Earth. There was the published version, the first edition, published in 1937. There is the