The Two Towers, Part 2: Helm's Deep and the Palantir (Mythic Mind, ep. 182)
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The Two Towers, Part 2: Helm’s Deep and the Palantir (Mythic Mind, ep. 182)
In this episode
Tolkien once wondered whether a film could cut Helm’s Deep. In the book it still teaches how hope arrives at dawn, and how a seeing-stone can undo the unwary.
In this Mythic Mind Lord of the Rings study, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks Book III, chapters 7-11: the Hornburg and the men of Rohan, Gandalf’s dawn, and the Palantir’s dangerous gift of sight after Orthanc.
Topics include battle as more than spectacle, hope against despair, and why true seeing is moral before it is magical.
Chapters
- Introduction
- Heroes who fight for a people
- The horn of Helm
- Dawn is ever the hope of men
- Eucatastrophe through catastrophe
- Saruman’s little copy of Mordor
- Evil as formlessness
- Gandalf breaks Saruman’s spell
- Gandalf’s unveiled power
- The real battle of the soul
Choose a chapter to jump the video to that moment.
Related
- The Two Towers, Part 1 (Mythic Mind, ep. 178)Watch on YouTube
- The Two Towers as Film and Adaptation (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 26)Watch on YouTube
- The Fellowship of the Ring as Film and Adaptation (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 25)Watch on YouTube
- J.R.R. Tolkien and the Long Defeat (Mythic Mind, ep. 181)Watch on YouTube
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