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As we get into the first chapter of The Hobbit, we discuss how coming at The Hobbit from a how does this fit into the Middle-earth cosmology perspective is probably not the best start.

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* How The Hobbit wasn’t really in Middle-earth in the beginning.
* How “Good Morning” is used so expertly by tolkien
* How Bilbo’s Tookish side is starting to take over
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* Why Gimli doesn’t have an instrument.
* How Tolkien described Hobbit ears.

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The Hobbit was NOT Originally in Middle-earth : The Hobbit #2

Join Jonathan Watson, Michael Grumbine, and Dan Coats as we read through The SIlmarillion, talk about The Rings of Power, and explore all the ages of Tolkien’s Middle-earth.