Best Return To Order Moment Podcasts (2025)

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Saying “Yes” Like Mary 4:09

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(Luke 1:26-38) Fr. Anthony reflects on the Annunciation and how Mary’s humble and courageous “yes” opened the way for God’s plan of salvation. He explains how we can imitate her trust when God calls us, even in our fears and weaknesses.By The Marian Fathers

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Doctor, Octopus (Filleting “The Power of Kroll”) 1:26:42

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Doctor Who’s biggest monster gets his due—or does he? The Randomizer drops us into The Power of Kroll, the soggiest segment of the Key to Time season, where the squid is supersized but the stakes… maybe not so much. Join us as we wade through methane, musical glass-shattering, suspicious swampies, and the curious absence of K9. Is Bob Holmes’ least…

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Chota Hafta 562 18:07

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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by The Hindu journalist Sobhana K Nair and screenwriter, producer and professor Sabrina Dhawan. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media. Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co…

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Trusting in the Darkest Hour 3:56

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(Mark 15:33-34) Fr. Anthony reflects on Jesus’ cry from the Cross and what it means for us when we feel abandoned by God. Drawing from the Gospel of Mark, he shows how even in our darkest moments, we are invited to trust that resurrection and mercy await. Learn why 3 pm—the Hour of Mercy—is so powerful, and how Jesus’ suffering opens the door to gr…

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Chota Hafta 561 17:58

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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by journalist Sreenivasan Jain and Ritu Rao, writer, INTACH consultant, and researcher on water sustainability. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media. Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c…

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Who Returns? (Reacting to the 2026 Christmas Special News) 48:37

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Doctor Who is back, babes! The BBC has reclaimed its Time Lord, and Pull To Open is here with a full transatlantic debrief. What does Disney’s departure mean for the future of the franchise? What might RTD’s newly announced 2026 Christmas Special look like? Will it be the final chapter of RTD 2.0 or the beginning of something entirely new? Join us …

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Holy Hour with Christ 4:50

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(Mark 14:32-42) In this moving episode Fr. Anthony reflects on Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. As Christ suffers alone, He asks, “Could you not watch one hour?” Discover the deep sorrow in His Sacred Heart and the invitation to accompany Him in prayer—especially through a Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration.…

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Chota Hafta 560 13:30

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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by journalist Arati Jerath and Sunil Dahiya, founder of Envirocatalysts. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media. Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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The Martians (Chilling “The Ice Warriors”) 1:33:32

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It’s the second Ice Age and Britannicus Base is under siege—by glaciers, bureaucracy, and a hissy Martian warlord with grabby hands. Join us as we dig into The Ice Warriors, the monster debut that screams “classic” but quietly whispers “fix me.” Are the Warriors even wearing armor? How does Jamie know Shakespeare? And did humanity really get rid of…

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Watchful of Christ’s Return 4:58

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(Mark 13:24-37) Fr. Anthony reflects on Jesus’ powerful words in Mark 13, urging us to stay alert and ready for the Lord’s return. As Brother Josh reads this apocalyptic Gospel passage, we’re reminded to live each day with an eternal perspective—watchful, prayerful, and rooted in trust in God’s mercy. Discover how to prepare your heart for Christ’s…

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Hafta 559: Taliban’s visit to India, Gaza peace plan agreement 1:46:46

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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor at The Hindu, and Dr Khinvraj Jangid, director and professor at the Centre for Israel Studies at OP Jindal Global University. Abhinandan asks Suhasini whether it was “embarrassing” …

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Heart of Service 2:58

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(Mark 10:42-45) In this episode of Mercy Moments Bible Study, Fr. Anthony reflects on Jesus’ call to serve rather than be served, drawing from the Gospel of Mark. With insights from Blessed Fr. Sopocko, we’re reminded that true greatness is found in self-giving love.By The Marian Fathers

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Chota Hafta 558 14:34

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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by senior journalist Nirupama Subramaniam and lawyer and author Prashant Reddy. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media. Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Wolf Clan (Metamorphosing “Tooth and Claw”) 1:31:20

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We are amused. Even Queen Victoria couldn’t keep a straight face through this lycanthropic slice of Tennant-era mayhem. Tooth and Claw is a kung-fu-kicking, wolf-howl-screaming, Torchwood-originating slice of steampunk nonsense, and honestly? It rules. The TARDIS misses Ian Dury and lands in the middle of an accidental backdoor pilot for Torchwood—…

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Letting Go: Jesus’ Challenge to the Rich Man 4:15

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By The Marian Fathers

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The magical system of Middle Earth is Bizarre... 10:11

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One of the things I hear over and over is how Tolkien is creating a soft magic system. I think in my mind I define that just as an ambiguous magic system…one where you don’t see magic all that often and then one that also doesn’t go into detail about some of the things that are happening. So I don’t know if some of you have any answers to these que…

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Hafta x South Central feat. Josy Joseph: A crossover episode on the future of media 1:38:18

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This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Manisha Pande, and The News Minute’s Dhanya Rajendran and Sudipto Mondal áre joined by senior journalist Josy Joseph for a special Hafta and South Central crossover episode on the future of media. Josy begins the discussion by arguing that the decline of newspapers and television is accelerating, not o…

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JRR Tolkien is the best perspective shift writer I've ever read. 10:36

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When I was in college, I took a writing class. In that class one of the very first things that they taught was to never, ever, under any circumstances, switch the perspective of your writing. Now, there was a reason for why they forced us into this, because they wanted us to stick to either first person or third person for our writing, and they bel…

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This was the moment Pippin became a man...or a hobbit 10:02

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I think you can only really know the measure of a man by how they handle adversity and challenges. In this case, you can only really know the measure of a hobbit by how they handle adversity. None of us like to be in those situations, but how we handle them is the thing that matters the most. I think that’s a huge theme of Tolkien’s writing right n…

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Why the world needs more men like Éomer 20:35

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What happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? And then both of those things meet Gimli? It’s a question that the philosophers have debated for ages, and it was a question that was settled by JRR Tolkien in the chapter The Riders of Rohan, when Eomer meets Aragorn, and then Gimli steps in after something ticks him off.…

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Peter Jackson left out all the tension that JRR Tolkien built... 17:23

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The Riders of Rohan chapter of The Two Towers is one of the most tense chapters of literature that I have read in a long time. I’m a movie fan, so I know Merry and Pippen are alive, but if you were reading this with no knowledge of the movies or the fate or Merry and Pippen I don’t know if I’ve ever read a chapter that plays with your emotions more…

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Listening with the Heart 3:52

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(Mark 9:2-8) Father Anthony reflects on the Transfiguration of Jesus in Mark 9, exploring how God's call to "listen to Him" invites us to silence our inner noise and embrace our identity as His beloved sons and daughters.By The Marian Fathers

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This was the moment I fell in love with Aragorn 18:48

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It’s time. I feel like it’s that moment in Lion King when Simba ascends Pride Rock…I am FINALLY going to talk about how in one simple chapter…one of the shortest in the whole series so far…Aragorn became one of my favorite characters.By Jonathan Minnema

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The Beginning of the Two Towers is a MASTERCLASS in how to start a story 14:40

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If you’ve read The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien, you know that this book starts off guns a blazing. It is drastically different from it’s film adaptation in that Boromir dies at the beginning of this book rather than at the end of the Fellowship. And the whole Company is in chaos at the end of the last book rather than the movie has, where there’s cha…

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Why you should read the Fellowship of the Ring 17:13

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Having just finished reading Lord of the Rings for the first time and publishing over 10 hours of video essays on the work, I think I am not a certified expert in this text…I am just kidding, please don’t come after me. But I do think I have something to offer to people who have yet to read this book. And for those of you who have, you just get to …

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Chota Hafta 556 15:04

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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Manisha Pande are joined by Pooja Prasanna, editor-in-chief of reporting at The News Minute; senior lawyer Mishi Choudhary; independent journalist Smita Sharma; and senior journalist Sanjoy Hazarika from the Northeast. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.…

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Planet Mirth (Delighting “The Happiness Patrol”) 1:37:37

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Doctor Who gets political, camp, and candy-coated all at once in The Happiness Patrol. On Terra Alpha, Helen A rules with a smile—and a gun—while her confectionary executioner, The Candy Man, dishes out death by fondant. Pete and Chris dive into this neon-noir dystopia, unpack the not-so-subtle Thatcher parallels, and debate whether Sylvester McCoy…

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Who is the greatest writer of all time? 16:44

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Who is the greatest writer of all time. It’s an impossible question…why would I even ask it…no one can answer that one in any kind of objective way…well Im gunna do just that.By Jonathan Minnema

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Is the Fellowship of the Ring a better movie than book? 32:56

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So I just finished reading the Lord of the Rings: The fellowship of the Ring for the first time in my life. And it was incredible. I will dote on it this essay. And so I did the only rational thing you do after you read an incredible book like that, I rewatched the movie…for maybe the 50th time in my life.…

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Samwise Gamgee is EVEN BETTER in the Books 16:00

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So yesterday I talked about Boromir being the most relatable character in the whole of the fellowship because of his flaws…I take that back. I think Sam isBy Jonathan Minnema

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The Two Towers: Bk 4 - Ch 7-9 1:53:37

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Jon, Danny, and Lizzy talk about the incredible ending of book 4, and the one point where JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis shed a tear over.By Jenn, Jon, Danny, Lizzy

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Did the Fellowship Fail Boromir? (YES...and no) 25:18

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Did the fellowship fail Boromir? It’s a question someone asked in a comment a few videos ago and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head for the last few days. I think the answer is no…but also yes…absolutely yes.By Jonathan Minnema

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The Miracle of the Loaves 5:14

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(Mark 6:34-44) Fr. Anthony Gramlich, reflects on the feeding of the 5,000 from Mark 6, revealing how Jesus’ compassion extends not only to our souls but also to our everyday needs. Learn how Divine Mercy invites us to trust God with both our spiritual and practical concerns—and to imitate Christ’s mercy in our daily lives.…

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How Aragorn being "erect" makes Tolkien an absolute MASTER of the English Language... 9:28

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Alright. So this is the weirdest, but the absolute funniest moment in the entirety of the Fellowship of the Ring. And what might sound like the start to a really immature essay on the Aragorn son of Arathorn, the well endowed, is actually going to really be about the mastery of Tolkien’s language…but give me a little bit of time to get there.…

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Three WILD EVENTS that happened on the River in Fellowship of the Ring 14:23

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It took them 10 days to get from Lothlorien to the waterfall Tol Brandir. It’s a full chapter in the books and in the 10 days there is a whole heap of stuff that happens that…from Legolas seeing an Eagle hunting an eagle…which feels weirdly prophetic…to Sam being deeply uncomfortable in the boats. But I want to talk about three things that really c…

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Chota Hafta 555 11:46

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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute, and Nitin Sethi, founding editor of the Reporter’s Collective. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media. Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for …

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I just want to talk about Galadriel giving Gimli three hairs from her golden head... 14:12

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I just feel, even though I have barely scratched the surface of the legendarium, that Galadriel and Gimli are doing something here VITALLY more important that I know or understand.By Jonathan Minnema

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The Gifts of Galadriel are SO INCREDIBLE in the Books... 15:48

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Rope…you’re telling me that we go from the books, where Galadriel gives Sam Gamgee maybe the coolest gift known to Middle Earth, and all we get in the movies is that sam got rope? ROPE?By Jonathan Minnema

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This is the Reason why Tolkien "intensely disliked" Dune 15:29

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I’m going to start this video off with a very very hot take. Since the Lord of the Rings films came out, in the early 2000s, there hasn’t been another movie that handles the storytelling of a fantasy or sci fi book, or has the beautiful visuals in the same way that the Dune series does.By Jonathan Minnema

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The Mirror of Galadriel is so BIZARRE to me... 20:41

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I have to say, for maybe the first time in this entire series I am confused. I just don’t know what really happened at the Mirror of Galadriel. Maybe I’m over-analyising it and it’s really much simpler than I’m making it out to be, or maybe it’s way more complicated and I need to have a better understanding of language in order to do it. But there …

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What did Galadriel offer each member of the fellowship? 14:10

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There is this weird section in the FOTR when the Company meets Galadriel. And Galadriel looks into each of their eyes almost simultaneously, and seems to offer them something.By Jonathan Minnema

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Faith in the Storm 4:05

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(Mark 4:36-41) Fr. Anthony Gramlich reflects on Jesus calming the storm in Mark 4, reminding us that even shaky prayers can move the heart of God. When fear threatens to capsize our peace, Christ invites us to trust in His presence and power—because if He’s in the boat, the storm doesn’t get the last word.…

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This is the most BEAUTIFUL moment in the Fellowship of the Ring 9:34

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Oh. My. Goodness. The words of Galadriel disarmed me, I cannot imagine what they did for Gimli.By Jonathan Minnema

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Island Chat (Interviews from Long Island Who 2025) 56:33

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What’s it like to work on Doctor Who and Torchwood when you’re not in the spotlight—but still right there among the monsters, costumes, and chaos? In this very special live episode recorded at Long Island Who, Pete and Chris chat with two veterans of the Whoniverse: Mickey Lewis, a monster actor and novelist with stories to spare (including some ve…

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The Genius of Tolkien is FULLY Displayed in Lothlorien 18:38

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If there is one thing that I’ve learned about Tolkien from my first read of Lord of the Rings, besides the fact that lots of people have very strong opinions about Tom Bombadil, is that he didn’t want anyone allegorizing his work.By Jonathan Minnema

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The Most Mysterious and Important Character of JRR Tolkien... (It's not Tom Bombadil) 7:07

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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is filled with grand figures: mighty wizards like Gandalf whose wisdom and knowledge of Middle Earth is utterly priceless and vital for the fellowship, noble kings like Aragorn, who in the movies is more reluctant to take that role, but in the books, is ready to become king, and ancient evils like the evil of …

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Chota Hafta 554 14:25

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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan, and Raman Kirpal are joined by Kanak Mani Dixit, founder-editor of Himal South Asian, and writer and podcaster Anurag Minus Verma. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media. Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com…

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The 13 INSANE changes from book to movie in the Bridge of Khazad Dum 18:33

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The Bridge of Kazad Dum is the most action packed chapter I have ever read in my life. I read this chapter in a plane, and the woman next to me, who was reading smut on her kindle…no shame…actually looked over to me to see if I was okay. When my jaw kept dropping and I kept taking sharp intakes of air because of how nuts this chapter was, so looked…

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The saddest story in Middle Earth 20:39

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Okay. So this essay was originally something I was doing just on my own time. And it was so fun that I decided to start writing it down…and it became this. What I want to do is to take the little book that they found next to Balin's tomb that was kind of hard to read and had words covered over with blood and guts. And I want to just process out lou…

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I understand these FOUR characters so much better now... 13:23

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I feel like I found another fun tidbit of Tolkien's writing in the middle of Fellowship of the Ring. Fire. Now fire is a common theme I think in the writing of Tolkien because it’s essential for survival and morale.By Jonathan Minnema