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.