Episode Description
<p><strong>The Nicks discuss going to the bar alone; being a stranger in a new land; Bree, the Bree-folk, and their sayings; the types people that travel through Bree and the Prancing Pony, and more!</strong></p> <p><strong>Maps</strong></p> <p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/greendragonlive/Middle-earth-Large.jpg">Map of Middle-earth</a> </p> <p><a href="http://lotrproject.com/map/">LoTRproject.com interactive map - Caution: spoilers for new readers!</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Notes for this episode:</strong></p> <p><strong>What Happened Last Time?</strong></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The hobbits get a restful night's sleep and leave the HOTB early in the morning making way through the Barrow Downs and up back to the main road to continue on to the village of Bree. BUT ITS NOT THAT EASY. After an unplanned inside-of-the-eyelids study leaning up against a standing stone session Frodo wakes up, it's dark out and FOG IS EVERYWHERE!!! He tried to find the hobbits, gets caught by a wight, wakes up in a barrow, spots the others looking rightly terrible and, losing all hope, calls for Tom to come help using that little song. Tom saves the day by gets them out of their predicament and walks them back up to the main road.</span></em><br /> <br /></p> <p><strong>Where Are We in the Narrative?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our heroes are finally arriving at what we can likely call our first major checkpoint of the adventure, Bree. After shortcuts through forests and fields, disastrous dealing with menacing trees, and barrow wights, and the luck of finding a friend in Farmer Maggot and Tom Bombadil to aid them on their road: Leaving the Shire has not been as easy as they, nor Gandalf would have predicted, and going back into civilization is both a relief and a threat. Many eyes and ears prying, who knows who is friend, and who is foe?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>The Story in this Chapter:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Breeland</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Rangers</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Big Folk and the Little Folk</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Bree Folk</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">"Outsiders" to the Shire Folk</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many outsiders?</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dyke and Gate and the two main roads</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">"Strange as news from Bree"</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Northern Lands are desolate - What was up there? What is there now? ANGMAR! The old capital of Arnor, Annuminas, was northwest as well, on the shores of Lake Evendim.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Gatekeeper (Harry)</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Suspicious of the Hobbits, and suspicious to the Hobbits</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dark Figure over the gate</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Strider?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Rider?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Gollum?</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam quails at the size of men</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Prancing Pony First Impressions</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Barliman Butterbur - thoughts?</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">short for a man - he's a bit taller than hobbits and a bit shorter than most men</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seems to be a master of his trade. Can talk, knows when to be quiet and unassuming, friendly and inviting</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His talk "doesn't have no point" - he catches the Hobbits up on the basic particulars of what is happening in the inn tonight.</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bree Sayings</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Strange as news from Bree (East Farthing)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It never rains, but it pours</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">There's no accounting for East and West (the Rangers and Shire Folk) - The Bree version of "Strange as news from Bree"</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Frodo, Sam, Pippin to the common room</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Merry to hang back and maybe go for a walk outside</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bree Hobbits and names</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Frodo using geography and history which are not used in Bree much, difference in language, or maybe difference in class/education</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mr. Brandybuck, Mr. Took,</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Sam Gamgee</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Mr. Underhill</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Southerner</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Solo?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of the company come up the Greenway?</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Strider</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Note the way he is described - physically</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tolkien gives as little as possible to describe</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even stranger travelers in Bree</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Frodo's foolish action</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ring - A call from outside?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A jump over the moon - a slip - and the Ring's opportunity to reveal itself</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A song!</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tolkien's purpose in writing the types of things he did, was to give England a kind of mythology, of which it was robbed by the arrival of invaders who brought their own.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a little way, this is the same thing - giving us a long version of Hey Diddle Diddle</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is Frodo a traveling magician?!</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Swarthy Breelander (Bill Ferny), Squint-eyed Southerner, and Harry the gatekeeper leave together</span></li> <li style="list-style: none; display: inline"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harry and Bill both gatekeepers? (totally speculation)</span></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Trying to describe the scene to Barliman</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Strider uses Frodo's proper surname and says that he put his foot in it or rather his finger</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Clearing the house</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Private meetings</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Other comments or observations:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who climbs over the wall?</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Notable Difference(s) from Films:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are back in line with the films! Sort of. The feel of Bree is remarkably different, especially TPP.</span></p> <p><strong>Locations/Distance Traveled/Distance apart:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">East of the HoTB - up into the Barrow-downs, then northward toward the main road leading into the village of Bree.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>New Characters:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Everyone our hobbits encounter!</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Barliman</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Strider</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harry at the Gate/Southerner/Breelander</span> </li> </ul> <p><strong>What to Watch for in the Next Chapter:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We learn more about Strider and our journey really begins.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://www.greendragonlive.com/">greendragonlive.com</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.twitter.com/greendragonlive">Twitter</a></p> <p><a href="https://facebook.com/greendragonlive">Facebook</a></p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/14NZPxWKD4M">Sad Mario Theme by YAOG</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/harrymurrell">Special thanks to our friend Harry Murrell for the use of his music. 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