Date

2011-07-02

Featuring

Ben, Matt

Length

1:58:46

Category

Literature

Time Looped as

№ 95

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Great discussion of themes from The Lord of the Rings.

News

Matt corrects Ben on "Lindelhof" I don't think Ben's doing it deliberately yet

Amazon.com's Germany branch has messed up. Oh my gosh, Germany. They screwed up again. Germany just can't get it right, can they? They can't get it right. That was just a joke...I can't think of anything else they did wrong...

Main Topic

Live blog

Ben finds out that rings bounce (but not The One Ring!)

LOTR is a tragedy

No one can resist the Ring: we are all powerless before evil.

The Eagles are a sign of divine intervention

Would Sam have been morally justified in killing Gollum?

Hope was a major theme

Ben has books autographed by Terry Brooks

Who would win in a fight between Gandalf and Yoda?

Feedback

The sperm battle continues

"Ray" calls in (actually Dave Johnson)