Apr 19, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min · 20 segments
Saruon had never paid heed to the halflings, even if he had heard of them — and Matt still doesn’t pay heed to Alan, even if he works with him. Join The Man of the West and The Nerd of the Rings as we…
Frodo, of course, writing down the history sometime between the end of the War of the Ring in 3019 and the departure of Frodo, along with Ring-bearers Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf, and Bilbo, in September 3021, two years later.
Now, we do see this in at least one other Third Age story here in Unfinished Tales.
We covered it last year, but the Quest of Erebor was another of these stories written down by Frodo relating the story as told by Gandalf.
But much of that information was also included in Appendix A in The Lord of the Rings, while this story was not.
Why not, Matt? What do you think? Why, why did Tolkien go through the effort of, of conveying most of the information that's in the, the, the Quest of Erebor in the text-
... of the story? But this story doesn't get a lot of airplay, or the content of it doesn't, yeah.
I wonder if, un- and unless this is actually documented somewhere by Tolkien that I'm not familiar with, but I-
Frodo, of course, writing down the history sometime between the end of the War of the Ring in 3019 and the departure of Frodo, along with Ring-bearers Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf, and Bilbo, in September 3021, two years later.
Now, we do see this in at least one other Third Age story here in Unfinished Tales.
We covered it last year, but the Quest of Erebor was another of these stories written down by Frodo relating the story as told by Gandalf.
But much of that information was also included in Appendix A in The Lord of the Rings, while this story was not.
Why not, Matt? What do you think? Why, why did Tolkien go through the effort of, of conveying most of the information that's in the, the, the Quest of Erebor in the text-
... of the story? But this story doesn't get a lot of airplay, or the content of it doesn't, yeah.
I wonder if, un- and unless this is actually documented somewhere by Tolkien that I'm not familiar with, but I-
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