Episode Notes

Good morning and welcome! Speak, friend, and enter the Bag End Book Club, a celebration of Tolkien's most famous and influential works. Every two weeks we will come together having read a handful of chapters and discuss the stories of Middle-Earth, from the Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings and further on to the Silmarillion. Stop a moment and enjoy some good company and better books.

We're back with another sick as hell set of chapters! As we approach the midpoint of our time with the elves, we see some pretty cool stuff. Like killing! And stealing! And betrayal! Also Morgoth calls in a strike team of balrogs so that's pretty fucking cool.

NEXT WEEK: MAN!!!