~~~Hello and welcome to the Busy Bee's Book Club Podcast!~~~

Today, we begin with Chapter 4 of The Hobbit.

In this chapter, the company of Thorin Oakenshield are making their way through the mountains and up, up, up leaving the valley from whence they departed far behind them. Summer is well underway in the pleasant parts of Middle Earth and the company of fourteen are in low spirits. A terrible horrible thunder-battle doing nothing but serve make them all the more miserable. In search of somewhere safe and dry, our bedraggled crew find themselves on the doorstep of the Great Goblin King himself and Gandalf...well...where has Gandalf gone...?

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