The reunited members of the Fellowship of the Ring (minus Gandalf, who’s off hobnobbing with kings and trees) get some valuable bro time amid the flotsam and jetsam of Isengard. Merry and Pippin have a lot to account for — and an angry Dwarf to appease — so they ply their friends with salted pork and pipe-weed while catching them up on the story since Parth Galen… glossing over the dirty deeds done to them by the Uruk-hai. Before this episode goes up in smoke, though, we get into the etymology of Huorn: a word as mysterious as the creatures themselves.
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Recommended Reading:
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings (Mariner Books, paperback) “Flotsam and Jetsam”, pp. 546-54
Tolkien, J. R. R. (Christopher Tolkien, ed.) The Silmarillion (Mariner Books, paperback)
You referenced a resource when discussing “etymology of Huorn”, but it isn’t clear what that resource is – it’s not in the show notes or on your library page and a google search of parma el di??? yields nothing. I chalk it up to my poor hearing, but I can’t make out the title when you say it in the podcast. Can you point me in the right direction?
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Parma_Eldalamberon