The Sillymarillion

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Paul and Tori somehow fill an episode's worth of banter on this mini-baby-filler-travel chapter. It feels like Jimmy is gearing up for some action as we near the end of The Two Towers!

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Hello and welcome to Gollum's Trial, where the Gollum-defender in Tori (and Frodo) really come out. We're discussing The Forbidden Pool, come dive in with us (when Faramir isn't looking)!

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Sometimes it's a chapter of description, other times a chapter of dialogue. Today we get the latter with Faramir's Inquisition as Frodo tries not to break his NDA...

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And then they walked and walked and walked and walked and slap you in the face with the most romantic Sam/Frodo passage yet over some rabbit stew.

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After Tori recaps her time at ECCC, Paul and Tori dive into the chapter The Black Gate is Closed which, why didn't anyone check their hours before arriving?! What was the gameplan here?! I guess that's what happens when your guide is Slinker and Stinker.

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The three important "G"'s! We're trekking through the Dead Marshes while Gollum singes us a little ditty...just don't head into the light and ignore the Giant Ring Camera watching.

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Remember Sam & Frodo? Those two hobbits who were off on their own agenda? Because I (Tori) had forgotten all about them...

We're back with them, scaling lots of cliffs and trying to tame one ghoulish Gollum!

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Shall we ponder some orbs? Join Paul and Tori as they talk over some lovely palantír lore and discover it really is the best multi-purpose tool in Middle Earth. ...as long as you maybe don't utilize the one associated with a Dark Lord.

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The Lion, The Witch, and the Audacity of this bitch. After Paul's chimp tangent, we dive into Saruman the politician's tangent as he tries to sway our Fellowship into homosexual ~evil~.

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Did you know what Flotsam and Jetsam were before this episode?? I sure didn't. Happy New Year's listeners! (Psst. Hangout until the very end for some bloopers!)

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Nice! Thank you listeners for letting us be a part of your 2023's Spotify Wrapped.

We're *makin' our way* to Isengard and are reunited with two hobbits we've missed so much!!

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Battle! Axes! Arrows! Orcs! Dikes! (But not the gay kind.) We're at Helm's Deep folks! Buckle up, we're off to battle.

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Hello Chapter VI, The King of the Golden Hall! If you learn one thing from this chapter, never trust a man named Wormtongue. If the name wasn't enough, this chapter will do it for ya.

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Gandalf, where have you been loca?! We're on Chapter 5, "The White Rider" where Gandalf comes back from the dead?? (Fitting for an episode after Halloween.) Stick around to listen to Paul murder Tori over her Treebeard = Frosty the Snowman analogy.

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I think Jimmy might be the ultimate tree hugger. And who can blame him when he's created Ents?! Join us for a lovely episode filled with Ent lore and the most poetic tree descriptions you will ever read or hear.

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#NotAllOrcs. POV change! We're with Merry and Pippin now as they're thrown about like lost luggage at the airport by the Uruk-Hai. Paul and Tori learn a little about Orc politics and communities before the horse girls of the last chapter come in to save the day.

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The new hit boyband The Three Hunters meet the infamous Horse Girls of Rohan! But before that happens, they walk and walk and walk and walk and walk and wal and wa and w.....

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Welcome to Season 4!!! And Jimmy wastes no time starting this book off with a character death. RIP. Buckle up, we're journeying with The Three Hunters!

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The end is here! Tori always gets so emotional ending a book and journey, especially when it culminates in the breaking of the Fellowship. Join Paul and Tori and forever friend of the pod Molly as they complete the first book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. We're really in it now, Mr. Frodo.

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Hit it Tina Turner! In this chapter and recording there's lots of river talk...and rapids...and sharp stones in brown lands....and a liiiittle hint of plot. One more chapter until we're done with the book! Oh how time flies when you're adventuring with a cursed ring.

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Well, the Fellowship had a nice little mini-vacay but duty calls and they still have an evil ring to get rid of! They get some gifts, we crack some jokes, and we are THAT much closer to the completing Tori's first LOTR book!

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We're back and we've missed you so much! Kicking off our comeback from hiatus in a chapter all about Galadriel. And we can't talk about Galadriel without Shane Lynch!

P.S. Shane really wanted you all to know Doja Cat just adopted a dog named Frodo. :)

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The Fellowship wipe off their fresh tears after the loss of their leader and friend and head onwards to Lothlórien. Which means, much to Tori's glee, MORE ELVES!! Paul gives another beautifully sung Tolkien song and together they balk over how much that designer mithril shirt costs in today's dollars.

This chapter was short but had everything happen all at once?! The emotion, the drama, the BALROG! You know what, no more summary, let's just dive right into it.

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"The road may lead to Moria, but how can we hope that it will lead through Moria?" GREAT QUESTION ARAGORN. We are gonna find out! The gang has their first legit battle, Gandalf says "NAUR!", and Paul and Tori geek out over the gorgeous design of this Door. Join us friends, as we descend into the dark.

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If you hear rain and thunder in the background, it's not extra ambience but Paul podcasting in the middle of a thunderstorm because COMMITMENT. Also in this episode, the Fellowship is finally and officially formed! We get a lovely little taste of dwarven history and stick along with us to find out if the hobbits freeze to death.

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The Council of Elrond! In other words, Group Storytime! In other words, The Board Meeting! In other words, This Could've Been an Email!! We get a lot of backstory, lore drops, and "Gandalf where the fck were you??" via group story time with the council. Also, the beginning of our fellowship is finally formed!

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Join Tori and Paul as they start Book Two of Fellowship of the Ring with the chapter "Many Meetings" where there are So! Many! Meetings! Tori gleefully freaks out over Elrond and Glorfindel and Paul gives another glorious song rendition of a "Bilbo Baggins Original".

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What do Vanessa Carlton and carbonated milk have in common? We talk way too long about them both in The Sillymarillion!

Join us this week as we talk through the group's travel montage, meet the legendary Glorfindel (again!), and bop to Sam the Bard's original song containing...a boner.

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It's the Strider chapter! Come stride (ba dum, tsss) along with us as we finally meet and get some info on that mysterious fellow in the corner of the Prancing Pony. But before we can truly trust him, he needs to prove himself to Sam, the Body Guard-ner (ok ok we're done with the horrid puns). Queer Count: 38!

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Happy New Year listeners! It's 2023 and we've made it to the Prancing Pony! We start this episode with unfortunate Tom Bombadil sex jokes, meet the infamous Strider in the infamous Prancing Pony, and vibe along to Frodo's impressive open mic performance. 

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Santa kidnapped Molly so she could talk more hobbits with us! In this episode, Paul, Tori, and Molly chat over how Tolkien is really a horror author, start up another conversation on who/what really is Tom Bombadil, and take up Tom's advice to go touch some grass. Happy holidays and new year to you all! Cheers to more adventures together in 2023!

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Happy Honda Days! Welcome to Tom Bombadil part 2, Electric Boogaloo. We talk way too long about soup and Hondas and then we dive back into who really is this Tom guy...Is he a god? Is he a spirit? All we know for sure is he is a wife guy. Featuring a special guest, Tori's wife-guy, Steph!

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Trees to the left, trees to the right, trees above and trees below. But wait! Who's that! Tom Bombadil! Which just leaves Tori with more questions than answers!

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We are still trekking through the Shire! Join Paul and Tori as they read through Chapter 4. A Short Cut to Mushrooms and Chapter 5. A Conspiracy Unmasked, where we cry over Sam's loyalty, gasp over Merry's cleverness, and cheer on Farmer Maggot. 

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LOTR ROP SPOILERS! What the heck is Mithril, is the Stranger actually Gandalf, and how about that Sauron reveal?! We dig Erran back up from the mud so they can gush about Numenor and finally catch up and discuss together what we though of The Rings of Power, Season 1!

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Elves! First Varda mention! Elf Song! Tori is feeling a lot like Sam in this episode. Paul and Tori go through Chapter 3, Three is Company where Frodo, Sam, and Pippin start their trek to "Buckland" and run into quite the cast of characters on their way.

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Incoming ring lore dump! After a brief gush sesh over our thoughts on the latest Rings of Power episode, we dive into Chapter Two of Fellowship of the Ring: The Shadow of the Past! Which essentially, is Gandalf giving Frodo backstory on the ring(s), both singular and plural, a lesson on morality, and a look into how truly powerful and dangerous this ring Frodo now possesses can be...Good luck, bud!

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"Then Thursday, September the 22nd, actually dawned. The sun got up, the clouds vanished, flags were unfurled and the fun began." 

Did you know there are people on this earth who still have not read The Lord of the Rings? That number is about to go down by one as Paul finally introduces Tori to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring! We dive into the prologue "Concerning Hobbits" and chapter one "A Long Expected Party" with special guest and the person who introduced Tori to The Lord of the Rings a couple years ago, Molly Ostertag! 

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CW/TW: slight mention of rape in regards to fanfic tags and drug addiction in comparison to the Arkenstone. 

The dragon is defeated within the first 10 minutes, what more could this movie be about?! Oh...that's right.

Join Paul and Tori as they watch the last installment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit series: Battle of Five Armies. Tori watches as 17 armies join the battle, Sauron gets evicted, and Paul sheds some tears over Bagginshield. 

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Forget Finding Nemo, this is Finding Thrain! Tori and Paul watch the next installment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. To no one's surprise, Tori screams about elves and falls in love with Thranduil while Paul dubs the Master and Alfrid as wastes of space. 

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Paul and Tori watch the first installment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey! Tori gleefully is introduced to dwarf culture, confusedly introduced to Radagast and darling Sebastian, and Paul reminds everyone that Thorin is indeed, Daddy.  

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Join Paul and Tori as they discuss their thoughts and feelings on 1977 Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit! They discuss Elrond's drip, creating their own version of Laketown, Tori learns "burgle" is an actual word, and may never recover from Dwalin and Balin's character design.   Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tales and stories. Come join us on Twitter and tell us how we should celebrate our one-year podcast anniversary!! 

Bonus Podcast! The Ringpops of Power just dropped a teaser trailer where we get characters, dialogue, dope scenery, trees and boats, songs, and METEOR SAURON?! We pull our favorite reoccurring guest Erran back to torment Paul and discuss all the excitement revealed in this new trailer! Welcome to The Sillymarillion! Where Paul (the forever fan) teaches Tori (the newcomer) all about J.R.R. Tolkien's tales and stories. 

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We've reached the final chapters of The Hobbit! In which, Tori thinks the danger is over with the death of Smaug behind us, but Thorin and Co (and Tori!) soon learn from Middle Earth's version of Twitter, Roäc, that it's just begun. We discuss the Battle of Five Armies, shed a tear or two, and are blessed with a couple songs sung by our dear Paul.  

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On May 9th we hosted a Charity Stream over on our Twitch Sillymarillion to raise funds for reproductive rights and various abortion-rights groups in high-stakes US states. Together with you all, we did closet cosplays, Paul gave out a handful of voice impressions, did the splits, shaved his facial hair, Tori spilled wine on her partner's keyboard, got a little tipsy, together discussed a couple chapters in between all this chaos, and raised an incredible $1,059.21!! 

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They did it! They reached the Lonely Mountain!! Bilbo meets Smaug the big bad dragon and realizes there are many holes in their not-thought-out plan. Bilbo gets very clever when speaking with Smaug but jokes on him, Smaug is more clever. Who decides to have a riddle-off against a dragon anyway?! 

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Tori catches Paul up (between bites of sloppy joe) on Elf-Tori at Ren Faire and Bachelor-wreck shenanigans. After their quarterly lovefest over their listeners, they jump into chapter 9 and 10 of The Hobbit where Bilbo shows more feats of heroism by saving Thorin & Co (yet again!) from elf jail after their trespassing, before they float on down in barrels and crash Lake Town!

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