16. The Twenty-Second Night of September (W/ Cody Lunsford and Mark Watlington)

Frodo and Bilbo share a birthday! Which means they are both Virgos. Mark and Cody (Best Pictures) help Chad get to the bottom of this as well as what kind of spiders might have been around J.R.R. when he was but a lad and which Lord of the Rings characters would be good at basketball.

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10. Here Comes Trouble! (W/ Mark Watlington)

Mark Watlington (Best Pictures) joins Chad to discuss the tenth sentence of The Fellowship of The Ring which implies that trouble is coming! Mark also tries to impress Chad with his knowledge of The Hobbit's publishing history but Chad has his doubts that Mark's "fun facts" are true.

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7. The Well Preserved Man (W/ Timothy Collier)

Unchanged? Well-Preserved? What's the difference between these two descriptors? Will diagramming the sentence they both come from help? And what are we to make of this semi-colon? All these questions are answered when Timothy Collier (Dogwood Lung) joins Chad in reading the seventh sentence of The Lord of the Rings.

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5. Time Wore On (W/ Eli Smith)

How exactly does time wear something? And what is "on"? Is the concept of time a person in this? Either way, it has no effect on Bilbo! We delve into all these things and more this week.. Joined by Eli Smith (Purely Nostalgia), Chad reads another sentence of The Fellowship of the Ring.

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2. Bilbo is Rich and Mysterious (w/ Jason Hammons)

Now the story is really starting to come together. In the second sentence, we are introduced to the idea of mystery surrounding the character of Bilbo. Jason talks about his favorite Lord of the Rings poster and then Chad reads from a very reliable source of Fantasy news!

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1. A Guy Named Bilbo Is Having A Birthday Party (W/ Jason Hammons)

On the first episode of The Lord of the Rings Sentence, Chad is joined by his guest and podcast boss, Jason Hammons in reading the first sentence of The Fellowship of the Ring in which it is revealed that a man named Bilbo is having a birthday party! They also discuss the upcoming fantasy series, Shadow and Bone.

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0. TEASER - LOTR Sentence

The Lord of the Rings is a timeless classic that Chad Oliver never got around to reading. This podcast tracks his sentence by sentence journey through the epic adventures of Middle Earth. Joined by guests each week to help him break down the text, Chad reads through this book one sentence at a time weekly. And he’s contractually obligated by TMBC Productions to finish this project. This is The Lord of the Rings Sentence.

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