Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's our (first) episode on Book 5, Chapter 1, "Minas Tirith," in which Pippin and Gandalf discover something rotten in the state of Gondor: its steward Denethor. 

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes...but this week, he has on returning guest Stefan Sasse to talk about the recent movie The Last Duel.

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Special guest Benjamin Nielsen joins us for Book 4, Chapter 9 & 10, "Shelob's Lair" and "The Choices of Master Samwise," in which everyone's favorite giant spider stings Frodo, leaving Sam to take up the gauntlet of the quest, whether he likes it or not. (Spoiler: he doesn't.)

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's our episode wrapping up Book 4, Chapter 8, "The Stairs of Cirith Ungol," in which Frodo survives the Witch-King thanks to Sam and his stories, right before everything goes horribly wrong again. 

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's our episode on Book 4 Chapters 7 & 8, "Journey to the Crossroads" and "The Stairs of Cirith Ungol," in which Gollum leads Frodo and Sam to the happiest place in Middle-Earth: Minas Morgul. 

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's our episode on Book 4 Chapter 6, "The Forbidden Pool," in which everyone was getting along until Gollum shows up and ruins everything.

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the second episode on the fifth chapter of Book Four, in which Faramir takes the hobbits to his hidden hideout, where they talk about better days and Sam repeatedly puts his foot in his mouth. 

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the first episode on the fifth chapter of Book Four, in which Faramir puts Frodo on trial for the murder (?) of his brother Boromir. The next episode will cover the rest of the chapter, including the titular Window of the West.

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the fourth chapter of Book Four, in which Sam's just trying to enjoy a home-cooked meal when the war interrupts, bringing with it a new character: Faramir. 

Hello and welcome to the NotACast, the one true chapter-by-chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week!

Jeff is off for a couple months, so Emmett is resuming his Lord of the Rings episodes. Here's the third chapter of Book Four, in which our hobbit heroes finally arrive at the entranceway to Mordor...only to find that there's no way through, and they'll have to trust in Gollum yet again.