Episode 36: Flies and Spiders
Season 2
1h 21m | Jan 23, 2024Andie and Kali welcome designer and Tolkien collector, Myla (aka @MylaMalinalda) to the podcast to discuss the eighth chapter of the Hobbit, "Flies and Spiders," as well as the corresponding scenes from Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug." In this episode, we cover:
- How Mirkwood is described in the book vs what we see in the movie
- What we learn about wood-elves in this chapter — and how that differs from Peter Jackson's depiction
- Mirkwood's various creepy crawlies
- How Bilbo's role is reduced
- Our hopes for the future of adaptations
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