Talking About Tolkien - The Ride of the Rohirrim (Return, 5-5)

About this episode

The episode discusses Theoden's predicament and his encounter with Ghân-buri-Ghân in Tolkien's narrative.

Theoden has arrived too late. He's cut off from Gondor by an army of orcs...then he meets Ghân-buri-Ghân, who really just wants to never have to talk to any of these people again. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben, Nate

Topics covered

• Tolkien
• The Ride of the Rohirrim
• fantasy literature
• character analysis
• Middle-earth

Keywords

• Tolkien
• Theoden
• Ghân-buri-Ghân
• Rohirrim
• orcs
• Gondor
• fantasy

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