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Discussion of Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter Eight

Join Cam and Maggie for a bittersweet farewell to the elves. Galadriel sings at us more than once, and Boromir continues to whine the whole time. Maggie runs through the elves’ gifts to the Company – Cam is less than impressed with Sam’s magical box of dirt. We also compare them to the posthumous gifts Dumbledore gives to the trio in Harry Potter. Who is the worse wizard daddy? Cam reflects on the Lothlorien sequence of Fellowship and compares it to the Tom Bombadil interlude. Galadriel reminds us of Goldberry! Gimli’s unexpected emotional moment leads us to a realization about the Company’s grief and the purpose of their time in Lorien. Cam develops a theory about the fragility of fate in Middle-earth, which Maggie adds to as they descend into a discussion of the elves / magicians and their transcendent, powerful position in this world.

In our Second Breakfast, Cam leads us through some revelations he found in Christopher Tolkien’s The History of The Lord of the Rings. Topics include: the passing of the ring from one bearer to another as “a dirty trick,” Gollum’s relationship and first meeting with Sauron, the terrifying possibility that a ring bearer could turn into an invisible dead wraith at any second, the rules of the One Ring as they were outlined in an early draft of Fellowship, and the relationship between the Ring and “moral will.”

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