134. When Bilbo Became the Hero – The Hobbit #21

Bilbo is the only one left to save the dwarves–and to his own surprise, he’s up to the task!

This week we also look at:

• Bilbo’s moment of transformation into the hero of the story.
• The size of these spiders.
• Tolkien’s use of spiders throughout the history of Middle-earth
• How Tolkien had planned for Ungoliant to die (it wasn’t by her own mouth!)
• What do Attercop, Tomnoddy, and Lob actually mean?
• How we can tell Tolkien love the history of the elves… but his heart is still with the Hobbits.

In our extended episode (available for our members) we talk about:

• How we recreated Tolkien’s voice in last week’s episode.
• The difficulties in creating it with the right pronunciations.
• What Michael thought about the quality of it.
• Ethically… should we even do it?

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