313 – Breakfast in Mordor

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Alan Sisto

Film Reviews, Books, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Sam suggests that Frodo and he should trust to luck, while Alan and Matt suggest they might want to reconsider. Join us as we spot that stinking villain — no, not Fëanor — sniffing around Frodo, as we wrap up the chapter on The Land of Shadow. Sam gives until it hurts, Frodo falls asleep, and they somehow find themselves participating in the 10k Run to Mordor despite their not having paid an entry fee. We observe that even the big orcs like to file reports almost as much as they like to whip small orcs. Also, Matt completely abandons Alan when singing Where There’s a Whip, There’s a Way.

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0:00.0	Good evening Little Masters and welcome to episode 313 of the
0:15.5	prancing pony podcast where well Sam and Froto better eat up and start stretching
0:19.6	they've got a busy night ahead they do and they didn't even know that they signed up for this
0:24.8	10-K and they're not exactly at peak performance. No and now it's gotten longer
0:29.7	right I mean I think last week we mentioned the Mordor 5k but yeah we underestimated the distance.
0:34.8	We did. Now folks pull up a bench in the common room and join us. I'm Matt the Nurd of the Rings and I'm here with the man of the
0:40.8	West who couldn't keep up with tired Hobbets Alan Sisto.
0:45.0	And that whip is not going to help, man, I'm telling you.
0:48.0	Folks, join us as our Hobbit Heroes trust to luck in our final episode on the Land of Shadow, the second chapter in book six of the Lord of the Rings.
0:57.0	Folks, no matter how you arrived, you're all welcome here in the common room at the Prancing Pony Podcast.
1:02.8	We are reading and talking our way through Middle Earth
1:05.4	with plenty of speculation and bad jokes along the way.
1:08.8	And we love deep dives into the lore.
1:11.0	We love discussing our favorite themes and a whole lot more but we try to keep it light and fun like a couple friends chatting at the pub and we're glad you've joined us and I'm sure you'll be glad you joined as well but before we get to tonight's chapter discussion, it's time, honestly, for one of my favorite intro segments, but it's one we don't do nearly often enough, this week in Tolkien history.
1:31.2	And you know, Alan, as I was looking at things that happened for the week of January 14th,
1:37.5	there's actually a number of things that we could have focused on.
1:40.8	There's actually quite a few talking letters from around this time.
1:45.0	But as I was looking through the week of January 14th, there was one thing that I
1:50.0	just couldn't help but feel the weight of and that is the passing of Christopher Tolkien.
1:55.6	Indeed, yeah.
1:57.1	Christopher died on January 16th, 2020, so just four years ago at the age of 95 and there's really no overstating what
2:07.0	Christopher has meant to the publication scholarship and fandom of his father's
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