The Bee Reads LOTR Episode 8: Fog on the Barrow Downs

<p dir="ltr">Kyle and Dan from The Babylon Bee are joined by Jonathan Watson of <a href="https://www.theonering.com/">TheOneRing.Com</a> as they catch up with Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin as they make it to the barrow-downs and immediately run into trouble. There&rsquo;s some ghosties, ancient evil stirring, and newfound courage found in a dark place.</p> <p dir="ltr">The subscriber portion is where all the best content is, so head over to <a href="http://babylonbee.com/plans">BabylonBee.Com/Plans</a> and sign up to enjoy full-length podcasts!</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Chapter summary: </strong>The hobbits leave Tom Bombadil&rsquo;s house, Frodo almost turns around sad he didn&rsquo;t get to say goodbye, but Goldberry beckons to them from up ahead and sees them off properly. They lunch and accidentally fall asleep in a wide hollow circular area near a shapeless stone- that seemed to be a landmark or warning in its midst. Sinister fog rolls over them, feeling like a trap, and when the hobbits try to make their way out and into the fog they somehow get separated and captured by barrow-wights. Frodo stabs a hand and calls Tom Bombadil with a song. Tom rescues the hobbits and gives them all daggers which are swords for their size, and has his pony fetch their ponies, and then escorts them to the great east road where they just about make it to Bree.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Some questions or themes:</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">A line that gets adapted into the movie and put into Gandalf&rsquo;s mouth in Return of the King: &ldquo;either in dreams or out of them, he could not tell which, Frodo heard sweet singing running in his mind: &rdquo; a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain-curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, and a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise. The vision melted into waking; and there was Tom whistling like a tree-full of birds; and the sun was already slanting down the hill and t