061 - The Fellowship Say Goodbye in "Many Partings"
The War of the Ring is over, Aragorn is King of Gondor, and the Fellowship is finally heading home. But in Chapter 6 of Book 6 of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Return of the King, “Many Partings,” saying goodb...
14 Okt 1h 33min
060 - Hail to the King (and the Steward), Baby
In this episode of Fool of a Took, we discuss "The Steward and the King", Book 6, Chapter 5 of The Return of the King. The War of the Ring is over, but Middle-earth still has some major business to se...
30 Sep 1h 37min
059 - The Fellowship Reunites After Mount Doom in "The Field of Cormallen"
This week on Fool of a Took, we’re reading "The Field of Cormallen", Chapter 4 of Book Six of The Return of the King, and after everything Tolkien has put us through, we finally get to be happy for a ...
23 Sep 1h 28min
058 - Frodo Fails to Destroy the Ring Inside "Mount Doom"
After two years of reading The Lord of the Rings, we’re finally here. This week, we discuss book 6, chapter 3: Mount Doom from The Return of the King.We get into Sam literally carrying Frodo up the mo...
16 Sep 1h 25min
057 - Frodo Is Running on Empty in "The Land of Shadow"
Frodo and Sam are finally inside Mordor as we discuss “The Land of Shadow,” Chapter 2 of Book Six of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.After escaping the Tower of Cirith U...
9 Sep 1h 34min
056 - Everybody’s Dead in “The Tower of Cirith Ungol”
This week we discuss book 6, chapter 1: The Tower of Cirith Ungol from "The Return of the King". We’re back with Sam, and somehow things in Mordor are going both much better and much worse than expect...
2 Sep 1h 36min
055 - One Does Simply Walk into Mordor when "The Black Gate Opens"
This week we discuss book 5, chapter 10: The Black Gate Opens from "The Return of the King". The Captains of the West march straight toward Mordor on what is essentially a 7,000-man suicide mission. A...
19 Aug 1h 35min
054 - "The Last Debate"... Marching Straight into Mordor?
This week we discuss book 5, chapter 9: The Last Debate from "The Return of the King". The battle is won, but the war definitely isn’t. This week, the fellowship finally gets the story of Aragorn and ...
12 Aug 1h 26min
