[SPEAKER_01]: All right kids, all right, that was the bell. [SPEAKER_01]: It's another beautiful day of Summer School. [SPEAKER_01]: Now who's ready to talk Tolkien? [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to Summer School. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Mr. Kirk, your Tolkien tutor. [SPEAKER_01]: We've got just seven sessions before the S-A-T. [SPEAKER_01]: It's a similarly an assessment test. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's get it. [SPEAKER_01]: Well friends, welcome back to Summer School.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I see we've got Mr. Smith, you're back with us again today. [SPEAKER_01]: Looks like you're here. [SPEAKER_01]: We're doing a little... I was always virtual session, but this is an extra virtual. [SPEAKER_01]: Seems like you're in a different location. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Mr. Kirk, I just wanted to say thank you for... Again, this is... You're such a good tutor that you're even willing to meet with me when I forgot that we were going to family vacation and... [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I forgot some of my equipment. [SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, normally for our virtual sessions, I got my nice microphone. [SPEAKER_00]: And my parents said there wasn't room to pack it. [SPEAKER_00]: So I was able to bring that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm out on the porch right now. [SPEAKER_00]: You're probably going to hear cars. [SPEAKER_00]: We're at a very busy beach town. [SPEAKER_00]: So there's kind of stuff going on. [SPEAKER_00]: It's in America. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but lots of lots of foot traffic and it's a lively place. [SPEAKER_00]: It's really nice and balmy and warm here. [SPEAKER_00]: And [SPEAKER_00]: But I thought to myself, I really don't want to miss a session.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to stay on top of things. [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be ready for the SATs as fall. [SPEAKER_00]: And so thank you for meeting with me on my vacation. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, that's where I am. [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm glad to be here. [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's a different type of session because again, I'm trying to keep up. [SPEAKER_00]: But you're doing such a great job of making sure that I comprehend before we move on. [SPEAKER_00]: So thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, no problem, buddy. [SPEAKER_01]: I love this. [SPEAKER_01]: It's actually kind of a little in between session anyways. [SPEAKER_01]: So this is what I do. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, a professor wouldn't do this sort of thing, right? [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is something that is why you have that tutor relationship because tutors are willing to meet outside of those office hours and it all odd times. [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm more than happy.
[SPEAKER_00]: You also, you also prioritize your kids first, which a lot of professors don't do. [SPEAKER_00]: It's always about, you know, your son and working around his schedule. [SPEAKER_00]: And then also, I know that you were really busy, you were painting, painting ceilings like Leonardo DiCaprio. [SPEAKER_00]: And our Michelangelo DiCaprio, one of those famous artists. [SPEAKER_00]: And so, at the Christine Chappel.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, even that, even though you're probably would rather be a bed or, you know, up on the couch, watch something, you're teaching me. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see a professor doing that, you know, so. [SPEAKER_00]: No man. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: So I then appreciate you acknowledging that and saying that. [SPEAKER_01]: And being right, I was actually painting the ceiling earlier. [SPEAKER_01]: And I have a nice little depiction of what I did.
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually decided to take the ceiling and I turned, um, it, put it in dissections. [SPEAKER_01]: And I have millions, I start with millions girdle. [SPEAKER_01]: And I just put it right around. [SPEAKER_01]: The center of the garage. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually I know what it is. [SPEAKER_01]: Now that you say that I'm clicking. [SPEAKER_01]: Why did I not paint like the land of Belery and in the first age? [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my ceiling. [SPEAKER_00]: Why did you live in for God?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is the room for for Meliam's girdle and also underneath her shirtle? [SPEAKER_00]: Is there room both those? [SPEAKER_01]: Think in like when I do my gym workouts and I'm in the I'm out there, but my garage is my gym I'm thinking like when I get into those real intense sessions You know when I do those hip thruster movements I might have to move that session. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you don't say and it's I don't know [SPEAKER_01]: Yes sir. [SPEAKER_01]: I know.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I just, it's, yeah, okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Probably went too far there. [SPEAKER_01]: My, my, my fall. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just, I, I'm just like a high schooler. [SPEAKER_00]: So you know where my, my, my goes Mr. Kirk. [SPEAKER_00]: I can't. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I, I know sometimes I say, I can't, I got to be careful. [SPEAKER_01]: I say it for high schoolers because they, uh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A little bit of a filler episode as well too on King Thingol. [SPEAKER_01]: So I wanted to go over King Thingol today and talk about him because we've basically focused on tour and touring. [SPEAKER_01]: And touring we know is strongly associated with King Thingol. [SPEAKER_01]: And tour actually in an odd way.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a distant sort of connection to King Thingol too, which we can kind of [SPEAKER_01]: But really what I figured out, and this is when I first got into the first stage stuff, is that King Dingle is literally in the girdle of my friend. [SPEAKER_01]: He's in the center of it all. [SPEAKER_01]: He is, he is integral to everything. [SPEAKER_00]: So... The Lord of the girdle. [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord of the girdle. [SPEAKER_01]: That's literally what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: And from his and her loins, like we will get some of the, it's the rest of. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, think about it. [SPEAKER_01]: It's from there just from there to send. [SPEAKER_01]: And we actually get connections all the way down to to Elrond and Ergorn and Numenor all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think there should be a tie-in to health class and kind of just the [SPEAKER_00]: Y'know, the birds in the bees, I think there's a little offshoot we could do for some maybe some like health class extra credit over the summer. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, like summer. [SPEAKER_00]: Probably. [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly. [SPEAKER_00]: Jim class.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we wanted to get into some of the actual details here, there is some real interesting stuff with with Melion being a Maya having to take a carnal body and having to, y'know, to bear a child all of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of that, actually, breaking form a little bit here, [SPEAKER_01]: She's a Maya and she and think only the only time this has ever happened I mean we came close with with Gandalf kind of in Galadriel right when it's Galadriel something everybody's shipping it but like something going on there it was that besides that you've got you've got Melian and think all the ones to ever kind of do this and it's [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it's crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somewhere, I think it's in like one of the history's Tolkien's histories, where they, I think it's Morgoth's ring or something. [SPEAKER_01]: One of those, one of those books, where it is stated that she is almost like a member of the starry, that million is sort of like one of those original advisors that was there early on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's living the first stage [SPEAKER_01]: but she is like her power has to be diminished right to take that sort of human or whatever carnival form. [SPEAKER_01]: And so it's crazy. [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of like Gand off everyone else. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, she really, the more she pours her power into the manifestation of like children and her love for single, she binds herself [SPEAKER_01]: To that creation to Doria to the girdle to all of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it's in a way kind of found herself to this to this realm and to this cause and it's really diminished her if you will a little bit. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, sir. [SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted to ask because you're talking about Melian kind of being bound to that realm taking coronal form. [SPEAKER_00]: Is that another Maybe like piece of evidence that might [SPEAKER_00]: Shoe that same type of link with Tom Bombadol in the old forest.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that type of being because he's also kind of tied to it, not tied to a realm, but chooses to stay in a realm. [SPEAKER_01]: That's, I've never, well, I've never thought about Tom Bombadilla relationship to Melion. [SPEAKER_01]: And they're kind of similar. [SPEAKER_01]: They aren't they? [SPEAKER_01]: They kind of have this forest realm. [SPEAKER_01]: They have their, their lover, their significant other. [SPEAKER_01]: And they have all power in their realm.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one can literally do anything instead of Tom Bombadilla's realm. [SPEAKER_01]: No one can do anything in Melion's realm either. [SPEAKER_01]: The only person who could ever cross that barrier was Baron. [SPEAKER_01]: Baron is the only one who could ever cross the girdle without her. [SPEAKER_01]: That's the truth. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I didn't want to ask Mr. Kirk. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have another question. [SPEAKER_00]: Is Doriaf, where is that working thingel saw her dancing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was in Doriaf? [SPEAKER_01]: Actually, just east of that. [SPEAKER_01]: And the small little gleed, what is it called? [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's small little ways. [SPEAKER_00]: Is that my hearing that right? [SPEAKER_00]: Little gleed? [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's also, it's actually called the forest of non-elmoth. [SPEAKER_01]: Non-LM off. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, yeah, but it's it's it's it's just right right east of there. [SPEAKER_00]: And actually so as we get into this actual December that we're going to play today. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure how detailed it was in the beginning nor am I so detailed or sure how detailed it is with Baron and Luthian story. [SPEAKER_01]: So I'll kind of fill in some of the blanks and you know a lot of that story as well. [SPEAKER_01]: It's just been there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you have been your big fan of that story. [SPEAKER_01]: And so I know you've got some background knowledge on that, but we'll kind of fill in the blanks there as we get to it. [SPEAKER_01]: But yep. [SPEAKER_01]: So, um, any other questions? [SPEAKER_01]: So before we, we dive in here, anything you want to like, this, this, let me just, I'll say this, okay? [SPEAKER_01]: Just let me jump into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thingel is one of those characters that, every story I looked at, there's a connection to, like, the great stories, Barron and Luthian, um, the children of Huring, and even the fall of Gondolin, those three great stories. [SPEAKER_01]: Have a connection. [SPEAKER_01]: Have a connection. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think the fall of gondola might be what the one that people are like, oh, not really, not really.
[SPEAKER_01]: But sort of through through his servant, ale, right, actually one of one of his servants, there's this distant sort of like connection or whatever. [SPEAKER_01]: So it's just, it's not exact, but definitely the first two. [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought, wow, he's kind of integral to everything. [SPEAKER_01]: He's there right in the beginning. [SPEAKER_01]: He's he's the king when the son's a fan or show up. [SPEAKER_01]: He's he's the main dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I said in a few episodes ago I'll say it again. [SPEAKER_01]: He's seen the trees. [SPEAKER_01]: I said he before he started at the right of our version of the show, which I want which we might make it in the end credits here. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe, right? [SPEAKER_01]: This guy. [SPEAKER_01]: He goes and sees the trees of Valenor. [SPEAKER_01]: Comes back over as a K guys. [SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty awesome. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, let's go. [SPEAKER_01]: You guys should go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on. [SPEAKER_01]: The other tellerie. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go all way his brother. [SPEAKER_01]: You got the second group. [SPEAKER_01]: Come on, bro. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go. [SPEAKER_01]: They're headed that way. [SPEAKER_01]: They're chilling. [SPEAKER_01]: He's waiting to talk to Fenway, one of the other big leaders that's going to carry their people, one of the three ambassadors to carry him back over.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he gets distracted in non-elmoth where he runs into [SPEAKER_01]: Melion, and Melion somehow, something about her was so enticing, so, you know, beautiful. [SPEAKER_00]: Probably the Melion. [SPEAKER_00]: Probably the Melion. [SPEAKER_01]: Probably the Melion, as we said before the show, probably the Melions are what, are what enticed him. [SPEAKER_01]: It is what it is. [SPEAKER_01]: But she was considered the fairest of all of all the Maya.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so wow, I'm guessing the millions people, you know, they're there to support whatever. [SPEAKER_01]: So there is a board. [SPEAKER_01]: She is deaf. [SPEAKER_01]: She definitely, I think it's like two hundred and nine years or something like. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I think it's something else. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, sorry, oh my god, no, sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm two hundred. [SPEAKER_00]: Wow. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, who knows?
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: We have, there's not really a good description of her other than she is beautiful magnificent. [SPEAKER_01]: She's the fairest affair. [SPEAKER_01]: So you let your little imaginations run wild. [SPEAKER_01]: On a million, I know I have. [SPEAKER_01]: I know we all have at one point. [SPEAKER_01]: Fingolete is run run wild for sure. [SPEAKER_00]: Fingolete is is thing will do some dingo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I don't think it was it was dingolete the finger for nothing, buddy. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my God. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's just where that's where they chill dude. [SPEAKER_01]: And and then that's why I think when the sun's a fan or come back over and they're like, oh dude, you know, we've been in Valinore like we're do Ben there done that. [SPEAKER_01]: Bingo's been there done that. [SPEAKER_01]: He's like whatever dude. [SPEAKER_01]: Like I got something way better. [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, all right, without further ado, let's play this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's listen to it and okay now. [SPEAKER_01]: That will where you can't. [SPEAKER_01]: We could pause wherever you want to. [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see what I can remember what's I remember what's all on here. [SPEAKER_01]: So let's just die. [SPEAKER_00]: It's okay. [SPEAKER_01]: That's okay. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure. [SPEAKER_01]: Here it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the twilight of Arda before the first moon rose or the sun climbed to the sky, the land's a bilarian lay in shadow beneath the stars. [SPEAKER_01]: In the past few years, I've been playing with you. [SPEAKER_01]: You can't hear it. [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no. [SPEAKER_01]: I just play it in my ears, buddy. [SPEAKER_00]: Second I was thought I was thinking of my thing, but I'm not. [SPEAKER_00]: I just did that. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're in a dag on thing. [SPEAKER_00]: Dang. [SPEAKER_01]: As you were in here before last time, and this play just fine. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's try and let's try and turn it up. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I want for this because I'm in vacation mode. [SPEAKER_00]: It can be your vacation. [SPEAKER_01]: Now I have to play something different here just to kind of reset. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_01]: Can you hear that? [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to play some rock music for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not right, but you look at the music. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm a group. [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing. [SPEAKER_01]: Not no. [SPEAKER_01]: Dang, I wonder why that's doing this. [SPEAKER_01]: So, okay, let's see if this works here. [SPEAKER_01]: So we had a little glitch here, but you know, as a tutor, I'm always prepared backup plans. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so let's see what we want here. [SPEAKER_01]: See if this works.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Sindar Elves in Elu-Thingel, lords of Starlight and Stone. [SPEAKER_01]: In the twilight of Arda, before the first moon rose or the sun climbed to the sky, the land of Belarian lay in shadow beneath the stars. [SPEAKER_01]: Here long before the return of the Nodor or the Wars of Morgoth, the Sindar, the Gray Elves, dwelled in peace. [SPEAKER_01]: They were untouched by the splendor of Valnor but rich in their own quiet majesty.
[SPEAKER_01]: As it is said in the Silmarillion, in Belarian, in those days, dwelt many elves of every kind. [SPEAKER_01]: Both those who had come from the west, and those who had never set out upon the journey, and the gray elves were the most numerous. [SPEAKER_01]: The Cindar were born of delay. [SPEAKER_01]: They were of the tellery. [SPEAKER_01]: The last and largest of the three original clans of the Eldar who began the Great Journey, westward.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when their Lord L.A. [SPEAKER_01]: disappeared in the forest of non-elmouth, enchanted by a Maya named Melian. [SPEAKER_01]: Many of his people refused to leave without him, and so they stayed in Belarian, waiting and waiting. [SPEAKER_01]: For over two centuries, L.A. [SPEAKER_01]: stood in a trance of wonder and love, hand in hand with Melian beneath the wheeling stars. [SPEAKER_01]: When it last he emerged, changed in radiant.
[SPEAKER_01]: He bore a new name, Elu Thingol, [SPEAKER_01]: King Gray mantle, he was taller than all other elves. [SPEAKER_01]: He had an awe-inspiring presence, and he bore the light of Oman in his gaze. [SPEAKER_01]: Melian, a Maya of extraordinary power and beauty, had once served the Valar in Valinor. [SPEAKER_01]: She taught the nightengeals to sing and walked in the gardens of Lorian.
[SPEAKER_01]: Her union with thingel was a singular event in the history of Arda, a divine being joining with one of the children of Eluvitar. [SPEAKER_01]: From this bond would descend to line of half-elven, including Luthian, [SPEAKER_01]: Elirond, and eventually Erdogan. [SPEAKER_01]: Their marriage was both symbolic and literal. [SPEAKER_01]: A union that was both immortal spirit and mortal flesh of heaven and of earth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Together they ruled the forest realm of Dorioath, the hidden kingdom, protected by the divine girdle of Melion, a barrier of mist in a chamber that no creature of darkness could cross without leave. [SPEAKER_01]: This supernatural defense turned Dorioath into a realm [SPEAKER_01]: It is very rare. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a great chastity belt of middle earth. [SPEAKER_00]: It's ridiculous. [SPEAKER_00]: But a question Mr. Kirk, real quick. [SPEAKER_00]: Is there a question?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are there any theories amongst Tolkien scholars that had John L.A. [SPEAKER_00]: not stayed and been in transport, all of the elves would have left? [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, um, I think some very few would have stayed because there's still were some that just, um, yeah, a great question. [SPEAKER_01]: Great question. [SPEAKER_01]: I think because a lot of big host of them would have left. [SPEAKER_01]: So he really does sort of secure this major host. [SPEAKER_00]: That is what happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, what would have happened with, like, more got that everything in the course of history with, if all those elves would have left. [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of the green Elves, they literally fight them off. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, actually Kyrton is even there fighting them off. [SPEAKER_01]: These Elves are the big deal that they're there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because otherwise, you just walk over the land and just set up fortresses and just [SPEAKER_01]: Have camps and just be, you know, just control the land and have no one to oppose him. [SPEAKER_01]: So the first war of the first age was fought between Morgoth and Bingo, essentially. [SPEAKER_01]: So it's pretty, pretty wild. [SPEAKER_01]: And then you start thinking about it and I'm like, yeah, what's so why is this such a, [SPEAKER_01]: Y'know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: There are other great things and I do appreciate other beauties in this world. [SPEAKER_01]: And what about the simple mundane earthy beauty? [SPEAKER_01]: But yes, essentially, you have all of those other middle-earth beauties. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that are just like the forest, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Is beautiful. [SPEAKER_01]: All right, friends. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, there we go. [SPEAKER_01]: That's just a little sneak peek at the king thing goal episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got over on Patreon. [SPEAKER_01]: Sort of a wrap up to the first stage. [SPEAKER_01]: Next week, we're diving into the second age stuff from the unfinished tales. [SPEAKER_01]: And then after that, we'll be into the third age. [SPEAKER_01]: We continue right along there with our summer sessions. [SPEAKER_01]: We will be bringing out some main episodes of very soon Lane District Update on. [SPEAKER_01]: I've been busy.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got a batch of party that was fun and wild. [SPEAKER_01]: Lane and I ironically were in a wedding together. [SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy. [SPEAKER_01]: We didn't attend each other's weddings, but we are in wedding together. [SPEAKER_01]: So this podcast is bringing us together in ways we never thought possible. [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, so we will have some cool stuff moments in the middle of the night brief stuff coming to you guys soon.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Lane is also, if you've seen any of his post on social media, you'll know that he is out. [SPEAKER_01]: He's the Joker. [SPEAKER_01]: He's the Joker right now. [SPEAKER_01]: He's dealing with the bats. [SPEAKER_01]: A major stuff going on in his house and stuff. [SPEAKER_01]: We've got some, I mean he's, well, maybe we'll give you guys an update. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know up to him, but good news.
[SPEAKER_01]: He sort of got some things wrapped up there, and so we should be back soon, hopefully next week with a full main episode for you guys. [SPEAKER_01]: But for now, it's just over on Patreon. [SPEAKER_01]: If you guys want to check it out, it's five bucks. [SPEAKER_01]: Support us join the fellowship. [SPEAKER_01]: I goes to LEP-III, and we've already had, like, I think a [SPEAKER_01]: So that's been huge. [SPEAKER_01]: Appreciate that. [SPEAKER_01]: Love the comments over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, it's been great. [SPEAKER_01]: So all right. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, hey, thanks so much. [SPEAKER_01]: As always, this episode, by the way, I get to say the thing walking thing will episode. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like it's summer school. [SPEAKER_01]: So there is a high school or a teacher of the high school. [SPEAKER_01]: The high school mentality is there. [SPEAKER_01]: The inventory is there.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's some good laughs, but it's kind of like when you get in the, that's what she said mentality and you can't get out of it for the rest of the day. [SPEAKER_01]: It's, it's great. [SPEAKER_01]: I just think we've had to embrace it, you know, so. [SPEAKER_01]: All right. [SPEAKER_01]: That's all I'll say about that. [SPEAKER_01]: All right. [SPEAKER_01]: Have a good one. [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much, guys. [SPEAKER_01]: And don't forget the sniffing.
[SPEAKER_01]: in elvish avalan wrapped in shadow in music. [SPEAKER_01]: In the thousand caves of minigroth, carved by the dwarves of Belegost, and adorned by the hands of elves, tingle and melean made their home. [SPEAKER_01]: Minigroth became the marvel of Belarian. [SPEAKER_01]: Its halls sparkle with silver fountains, floors of living stone and tapestries that depicted the vallar and events yet to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as the Silmarillion tells us, it's the fairest dwelling of any king that is