Alan Sisto

I think we have read bits and pieces that strongly suggest their awareness of the ring's presence is not strong unless they're in close proximity to it.

Yeah.

Not going to happen.

uh but of course if this were some small isolated community they might just be able to attack instead right forget about trying to find out where baggins is kill everybody and find the ring you know um but the shire is far too large for that i mean even a single settlement in the shire like hobbiton or bywater would be too large to really do that so the witch king knows they've got to turn the terror down and the stealth up

And that's kind of hard to do when terror is your main weapon, but that's what they got to do.

I remember a couple of weeks ago when we learned that it was Kamul who spoke with the gaffer.

He was also the one who nearly got to the Hobbits in time at the Bucklebury Ferry.

This is where it's nice to have eight people at your command, you know?

it is so he goes to the barrow downs himself staying there for a while and kicking over the ant hill so to speak waking up all the barrel whites can you imagine like i've been asleep for 173 years what do you want no he wakes them all up and he's ensuring that all things of evil spirit that is the things that are opposed to the free peoples of middle earth were on the watch with malice in the old forest and on the barrow downs i gotta say that mention of the old forest

speaks to me of old man Willow, not just the whites.

Like that's why he was awake and looking.

Interesting, yeah.

It really is interesting.

I feel like there's, I mean, he's not said to have the kind of influence in the old forest that he has in the Barrowdowns.

He didn't send evil spirits to go live there.

But the fact that he's able to ensure that these things of evil spirit are on the watch with malice, that very strongly to me suggests old man Willow.

Yeah, because the border was the Branduin.

All right.

In notes on the movements of Barnum and Butterbur at that time, it is said that he stayed there for some days and the mailbags were roused and all letters of evil spirit hostile to Alan and Matt were on the way with malice.

I'm stretching these folks, man.