Matt

Thanks again, David.

Really appreciate you taking the time and joining us.

We'll see you next time.

It's always nice to sit down with our listeners.

Glad David could join us there.

Well, the ring isn't going to find itself.

Shall we start Alan the hunt for the ring?

I don't know if we give the ring enough time.

Now, we'll spend all of our first episode on this chapter on what is identified here as part one of the chapter, The Hunt for the Ring.

We'll cover part two called Other Versions of the Story over weeks two and three.

And it's also important to note that this is described as an account given to Frodo by Gandalf.

Frodo, of course, writing down the history, sometime between the end of the War of the Ring in 3019 and the departure of Frodo, along with ring bearers Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf, and Bilbo in September 3021, two years later.

I wonder if, unless this is actually documented somewhere by Tolkien that I'm not familiar with, but I wonder if the headspace there is connecting those two stories.

We know Tolkien went back and made a real effort to connect the Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings with the Lord of the Rings on the way.

I wonder if...

If that, you know, connecting it with the quest of Erebor felt like a more natural thing rather than going into the intricacies of the hunt for the ring, perhaps.

Maybe.

It also kind of focuses on the good guys for the most part in the appendices, I noticed.

Why wouldn't this be, though, in the main narrative of the story, too, is another question that I wonder.

We've talked about that many times.