Alan S.
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991 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2d ago
Alan S.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, if there's a possibility, it's a one in a million chance, but it's like death.
If it, if he has it.
Yeah, right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is where you, you remember about the two axes of risk.
One is the likelihood of the bad thing happening.
And the other is the severity of the bad thing happening.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
They were, of course, much more concerned about, you know, the ring.
And so as a result, they weren't even thinking, I don't know what might happen if Sauron had captured a stone, let alone what might happen if someone used a stone and Sauron said, hello, is it me you're looking for?
Only then.
Yeah.
I love that.
That doesn't happen in the story very often where, like, we get it at the same time that the characters get it.
Well, you know, you mentioned that the text moves on to that.
And in fact, actually, the rest of today's episode is a look at Gandalf's thought process in these moments, as well as the years sort of leading up to it.
Initially, he's just wanting to give the Hobbit a sense of what he was messing with.
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