Episode 50 – This Pyre Is Out of Control
Update: 2024-04-19
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It's a big milestone – episode 50! In honor of the occasion, Denethor decides he's going to burn this city, burn this city rather than cede control. All this dramatic self-immolation leads Clara and Aaron to pose some questions about being a king in this mixed-up world of Middle Earth. Can we say that there is a political philosophy lurking beneath the surface of the book and just how prescriptive is it? What does it mean that Tolkien refers to Denethor as a "political" leader? And why, after hundreds of pages, is it that Aragorn's finally allowed to be funny?
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