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.

In this episode we cover the first half of the second book of Fellowship of the Ring. We meet a ton of new guys, a handful of old guys, and hear about all sorts of other mysterious guys. Then we have some wilderness adventures, fight off some ghostly wolves and tentacled beasts, and finally face the shadows of Mordor. What will the Fellowship do without their trusty wizard? Read on!