The Dead Are Following - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 5 Ch 2

We are going on an adventure! Love The Lord of the Rings? Why not read along with us as we consider the books from the writer's point of view! Taking it chapter by chapter, novelist Julia Golding will reveal new details that you might not have noticed and techniques that will only go to increase your pleasure in future re-readings of our favourite novel. Julia also brings her expert knowledge of life in Oxford and English culture to explain some points that might have passed you by.

00:00 Introduction: Welcome to Mythmakers and Return of the King

01:13 Second Thoughts: Tolkien's Structural Changes

03:58 Merry Left Behind: The Relatable Point of View

06:04 The Arrival of the Grey Company

12:58 Merry's Oath to Théoden: A Father for a Little While

15:45 Aragorn Looks into the Palantir: A Battle of Wills

23:56 The Words of Malbeth the Seer: Prophecy and the Paths of the Dead

26:29 Éowyn's Desperate Plea: Eyes on Fire

33:34 Entering the Haunted Mountain: A Ghost Story Begins

36:24 Gimli's Terror: The Paths of the Dead

41:01 The Wild Hunt: Riding with the Dead Behind