Alan Sisto

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5,555 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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The Prancing Pony Podcast · 416 – The Sound of Silence · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

Maybe if I'm driving down the road and there's an In-N-Out burger...

I can, I can smell that the burgers are cooking and I can track that, but that's pretty obvious.

Yeah.

I'm not gonna be able to track an org.

Are there burgers in middle earth?

I don't think Tolkien.

Probably not.

I can, I can certainly track a good barbecue though.

Oh, like smoked brisket, smoked racks of ribs.

I'll be able to track that down.

Wow, that's a long way.

They were self-taught, yeah.

I really find that interesting.

I mean, I know when I move, I have to quickly gather the knowledge of where the local grocery store is and gas station and get a new doctor.

That's a lot easier than identifying all the plants and figuring out which ones I can eat and which ones will kill me.

So speaking of poisons, by the way, Tolkien adds in the footnote here, the Druidine actually had a really strong and clear ethic about the use of poison.

Quote, they had a law against the use of all poisons for the hurt of any living creatures, even those who had done them injury.

save only orcs whose poison darts they countered with others more deadly.

So they only used those poisons in battle against the orcs, even if a creature had attacked them, or even if a, another human or dwarf or something had attacked them, they would not use a poison weapon in battle against them.

Really clear, strong ethics about the limits of war, sort of like their own little Geneva convention.

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