This week, the Battle of Five Armies in Chapters 15 and 16 of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Is gold peculiarly evil in Tolkien's world? Does Thoring really value the Arkenstone above all things? Where and when does eucatastrophe intervene? 

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Show Notes:

• Shire Reckoning Production Schedule
• Morgoth's Ring (Christopher Tolkien)
• The History of the Hobbit (John D. Rateliff)
• The Annotated Hobbit (Douglas A. Anderson)

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Music by Corvus from Pixabay.