This week, we cover the second half of the second chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring, and discuss Frodo’s choice, the location of the Three Rings, and Sam Gamgee!
For the slides which accompany this lecture, click here; for the complete series schedule, click here!
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Show notes:
There And Back Again is a Point North Media production by Alastair Stephens, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.
There was some discussion during Episode 18 as to whether the Ring made Isildur (and other men) invisible.
The One Ring makes men invisible as well as hobbits. Isildur became invisible when he wore the Ring. This is stated in Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age in The Silmarillion. The Disaster of Gladden Fields also indicates Isildur became invisible, although when he wore the Ring the Elendilmir could still be seen. Gandalf tells Frodo (The Shadow of the Past) that if a mortal uses the Ring often to become invisible, he ultimately “fades.”
This week, we cover the second half of the second chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring, and discuss Frodo’s choice, the location of the Three Rings, and Sam Gamgee!
For the slides which accompany this lecture, click here; for the complete series schedule, click here!
There was some discussion during Episode 18 as to whether the Ring made Isildur (and other men) invisible.
The One Ring makes men invisible as well as hobbits. Isildur became invisible when he wore the Ring. This is stated in Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age in The Silmarillion. The Disaster of Gladden Fields also indicates Isildur became invisible, although when he wore the Ring the Elendilmir could still be seen. Gandalf tells Frodo (The Shadow of the Past) that if a mortal uses the Ring often to become invisible, he ultimately “fades.”