Not Asleep, Dead - LOTR: An Author's Journey, Bk 4 Ch 10

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: The Choices of Master Samwise

03:22 Sam's Instinctive Defense: A Small Beast Against a Monster

04:58 The Spider Fight: Evil Undoing Itself

10:33 The Phial Burns Bright: Light as Infection to Evil

14:23 Unbearable Grief: Sam's Despair Over Frodo's Body

17:21 The Debate: Plain Hobbit Logic and Impossible Choices

19:57 Taking the Ring: The Last Hobbit in the Chain

23:36 Inside the Ring: The World Changed

28:02 Eavesdropping on Orcs: Shagrat and Gorbag Reveal the Truth

31:54 The Sucker Punch: Frodo is Alive But Taken

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