The Extra Curricular

Merry and Pippin offer Chase and the fellowship some wonderful exposition as to what happened during the Ent march on Isengard. Also, Katie digs deep into the nature of little things in this week's chapter and the book as a whole. 

The Fellowship marches to Isengard, but not for war. Gandalf wishes to meet with Saruman one last time before they move on. They also encounter some unlikely friends along the way. Jonathan, Katie and Chase read chapter 8 of the Two Towers on this week's episode. 

As the fellowship remnant and the Riders of Rohan reach the ancient hold of Helm's Deep, Gandalf once again has to leave and take care of other affairs. Jonathan, Katie and Chase hold down as the the men fight through the night as a wave of orcs slam against the team. 

Gandalf and team reach the Golden Hall, but the king of Rohan, Theoden is not quite as kingly as he should be. A snake has embedded himself among the people of Rohan and it will take the White Wizard to remove him. Jonathan, Katie and Chase join them in the Golden Hall and discuss chapter 6 of the Two Towers. 

The search for Merry and Pippin leads Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn into the Fangorn forest, but an old friend returns to them at the "turn of the tide." Jonathan, Katie and Chase comb through this exposition filled chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers on this week's episode. 

The lost hobbits meet some living trees, start a war with them and Jonathan is stuck in the middle of #Snowpocalypse2016. Katie and Chase hold down the fort and throw around some tremendous tree puns on this week's new episode of Talking Tolkien. 

The Hobbits, and by Hobbits we mean Merry and Pippin, are the hostages of many hundreds of Orcs that are running across Rohan. Jonathan, Katie and Chase join them just as Pippin is trying to piece together what has happened to them along with their other members of the Fellowship.

Talking Tolkien returns to Middle-Earth as they kick this year off by starting part two of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic, The Two Towers. Jonathan, Katie and Chase join the remnants of the fellowship as they run across Rohan to save the Hobbits who were captured by orcs. 

This is our final episode of Talking Tolkien covering J.R.R. Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring. This week, Jonathan, Katie and Chase watched the 2001 film version of The Fellowship of the Ring and discussed how it is similar and how it differs from the book. Next week, they will be starting the Two Towers. 

Today is the 124th birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien. It is also the first anniversary of our humble podcast. We present you a short special where we celebrate Professor Tolkien's birthday and a year of doing this podcast. Thank you for listening to us and we hope to continue entertaining you all in 2016.