The Tower of Cirith Ungol [Return of the King, Ch.11]

Book Six of LOTR starts off with a bang as Sam takes over as Ringbearer / protagonist and Tolkien immediately forces him to re-enact Die Hard. Cam continues to develop his “Grey Company” theory as Sam tries to play all the role of every member of the original fellowship and survive his awful journey through the tower. We discuss the Ring planting visions of temptation in both Frodo and Sam’s minds, and Maggie decides Sam is the best possible Ringbearer in Middle-earth, even more so than Tommy “Dabomba” Bombadil. Then Tolkien makes his timeline all fuzzy and gives Sam a Prisoner of Azkaban moment, which triggers his superpower and breaks the fourth wall! This Tolkien guy, I’ll tell ya – quite the writer when he wants to be!

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