Second Breakfast with Cam & Maggie

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter Four

Join Cam and Maggie for a fascinating, moody slice of Tolkien. Eyes are watching everyone in this chapter – Sam is watching Frodo, Frodo is watch…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter Three

Join Cam and Maggie for a strange little detour through Frodo’s mind. This chapter pauses the narrative as our sterling (and possibly insane) le…

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Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Four, Chapter One

Join Maggie and Cam for their first Frodo + Sam chapter in eleven weeks! Tolkien takes us back in time to find out what our hobbits have been up t…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Eleven

Join Cam and Maggie for – BREAKING NEWS: New Lord of the Rings movie just announced! We start the episode by reacting to the exciting announce…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Ten

Join Cam and Maggie for a deep dive into this fantastic chapter. Tolkien is back on his game here, giving us huge character moments, plenty of ac…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Nine

Join Cam and Maggie for the show’s One Year Anniversary. Tolkien got us a very special present (another mediocre chapter) but as always, we make…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Eight

Join Cam and Maggie for a terribly strange chapter of Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s style changes wildly here, it’s like he wrote this chapter i…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Seven

Join Cam and Maggie for one of Tolkien’s greatest battles. There’s action and fire and terror in these pages, but it’s striking how much Tolkie…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Six

Join Cam and Maggie for a spirited discussion of Théoden and Wormtongue! The Meat and Potatoes Detective Agency (Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli) inv…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Five

Join Cam and Maggie for – shut up, GANDALF IS BACK! Or is he? Cam doesn’t think the Old Man / Gandalf the White is really the wizard we once kne…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Four

Join Cam and Maggie in their quest to defeat Tom Bombadil 2.0! Treebeard sings and wanders and babbles and emotionally detaches and brings the e…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Three

Join Cam and Maggie for a chapter that celebrates all things Pippin. I guess he’s our main character now, and Tolkien takes great pains to diff…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter Two

Join Cam and Maggie for our first big adventure with the new company – Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas! Their gruff, decidedly un-magical perspective…

Discussion of The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter One

Join Cam and Maggie for the curious beginning to Two Towers. This is the shortest LOTR chapter yet, and the first one to focus in on just a few m…

Discussion of The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring [Extended Edition] in Glorious 4K!

Join Cam and Maggie in their (our?) continued adoration of Peter Jackson. We watched the second half…

Discussion of Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter Ten

Join Cam and Maggie for the last pages of Fellowship. Boromir takes a turn for the worst and Tolkien imbues his breakdown with echoes of Sm…

Discussion of Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter Nine

Join Cam and Maggie for this odd duck of a chapter. Expectation hangs heavy over every page. Gollum lingers in the shadows and echoes of G…

YouTube Exclusive bonus discussion about last week’s chapter, with Maggie’s thoughts:

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Discussion of Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter Eight

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Discussion of Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter Seven

Join Cam for a deep dive into Tolkien’s most provocative, magic-heavy chapter yet. Much like Gandalf, Maggie was unavailable this week, b…