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Gilraen's mom and dad have differing opinions on whether she should marry Arathorn; Alan and Sara just have differing opinions. Join The Man of the West and The Shieldmaiden of Rohan as we begin a two-part series — which rapidly becomes three parts — on The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen as the PPP returns to Appendix A in The Lord Of the Rings. Aragorn strays into a dream and discovers she's the meaning in his life, she's the inspiration; Elrond seems to learn a lesson from Thingol's error; and Aragorn has some errantry to run. Alan and Sara wonder what song Aragorn was singing, speculate about Aragorn's teenage angst, and decide that Aragorn's journeys must have taken him at least 500 miles from Arwen's door. Also, Sara's retirement dreams: bon-bons in the Hall of Fire. This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/PONY and get on your way to being your best self! Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that's over 40% off) with promo code PONY at ShopMando.com! #mandopod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chapter 19 - The Mirror of Galadriel‘Alas!' said Aragorn. ‘Gandalf the Grey fell into shadow. He remained in Moria and did not escape.' At these words all the Elves in the hall cried aloud in grief and amazement. Q1 - What do you think of Lothlorian‘I am afraid that's only too true, Sam,' said Frodo. ‘Yet I hope very much that before we leave we shall see the Lady of the Elves again.' Even as he spoke, they saw, as if she came in answer to their words, the Lady Galadriel approaching. Tall and white and fair she walked beneath the trees. She spoke no word, but beckoned to them.Q2 - What do you think of the Mirror?Q3 - What do you think about Sam looking into the mirror?‘He suspects, but he does not know – not yet. Do you not see now wherefore your coming is to us as the footstep of Doom? For if you fail, then we are laid bare to the Enemy. Yet if you succeed, then our power is diminished, and Lothlo´rien will fade, and the tides of Time will sweep it away. We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten.'Q4 - What do you make of this?‘And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!' She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illumined her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad. ‘I pass the test,' she said. ‘I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'Q5 - What was her test?Chapter 20 - Farewell to LorienAnd Aragorn answered: ‘Lady, you know all my desire, and long held in keeping the only treasure that I seek. Yet it is not yours to give me, even if you would; and only through darkness shall I come to it.' ‘Yet maybe this will lighten your heart,' said Galadriel; ‘for it was left in my care to be given to you, should you pass through this land.' Then she lifted from her lap a great stone of a clear green, set in a silver brooch that was wrought in the likeness of an eagle with outspread wings; and as she held it up the gem flashed like the sun shining through the leaves of spring. ‘This stone I gave to Celebrı´an my daughter, and she to hers; and now it comes to you as a token of hope. In this hour take the name that was foretold for you, Elessar, the Elfstone of the House of Elendil!' Then Aragorn took the stone and pinned the brooch upon his breast, and those who saw him wondered; for they had not marked before how tall and kingly he stood, and it seemed to them that many years of toil had fallen from his shoulders. ‘For the gifts that you have given me I thank you,' he said, ‘O Lady of Lo´rien of whom were sprung Celebrı´an and Arwen Evenstar. What praise could I say more?'Q1 - What do you think of Aragorn?‘And what gift would a Dwarf ask of the Elves?' said Galadriel, turning to Gimli. ‘None, Lady,' answered Gimli. ‘It is enough for me to have seen the Lady of the Galadhrim, and to have heard her gentle words.' ‘Hear all ye Elves!' she cried to those about her. ‘Let none say again that Dwarves are grasping and ungracious! Yet surely, Gimli son of Glo´in, you desire something that I could give? Name it, I bid you! You shall not be the only guest without a gift.' ‘There is nothing, Lady Galadriel,' said Gimli, bowing low and stammering. ‘Nothing, unless it might be – unless it is permitted to ask, nay, to name a single strand of your hair, which surpasses the gold of the earth as the stars surpass the gems of the mine. I do not ask for such a gift. But you commanded me to name my desire.'Q2 - This is amazingQ3 - What do you think of their gifts?Chapter 21 - The Great River‘Elbereth Gilthoniel!' sighed Legolas as he looked up. Even as he did so, a dark shape, like a cloud and yet not a cloud, for it moved far more swiftly, came out of the blackness in the South, and sped towards the Company, blotting out all light as it approached. Soon it appeared as a great winged creature, blacker than the pits in the night. Fierce voices rose up to greet it from across the water. Frodo felt a sudden chill running through him and clutching at his heart; there was a deadly cold, like the memory of an old wound, in his shoulder. He crouched down, as if to hide. Suddenly the great bow of Lo´rien sang. Shrill went the arrow from the elven-string. Frodo looked up. Almost above him the winged shape swerved. There was a harsh croaking scream, as it fell out of the air, vanishing down into the gloom of the eastern shore. The sky was clean again. There was a tumult of many voices far away, cursing and wailing in the darkness, and then silence. Neither shaft nor cry came again from the east that night.Q1 - What was that?Boromir held out long against this choice; but when it became plain that Frodo would follow Aragorn, wherever he went, he gave in. ‘It is not the way of the Men of Minas Tirith to desert their friends at need,' he said, ‘and you will need my strength, if ever you are to reach the Tindrock. To the tall isle I will go, but no further. There I shall turn to my home, alone if my help has not earned the reward of any companionship.'Q2 - What do you think of Boromir?‘Fear not!' said a strange voice behind him. Frodo turned and saw Strider, and yet not Strider; for the weatherworn Ranger was no longer there. In the stern sat Aragorn son of Arathorn, proud and erect, guiding the boat with skilful strokes; his hood was cast back, and his dark hair was blowing in the wind, a light was in his eyes: a king returning from exile to his own land.Q3 - What do you think of their trip so far?Chapter 22 - The Breaking of the Fellowship‘I was afraid for you, Frodo,' he said, coming forward. ‘If Aragorn is right and Orcs are near, then none of us should wander alone, and you least of all: so much depends on you. And my heart too is heavy. May I stay now and talk for a while, since I have found you? It would comfort me. Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.'Q1 - What do you think of this conversation?‘Ah! The Ring!' said Boromir, his eyes lighting. ‘The Ring! Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And I have seen it only for an instant in the house of Elrond. Could I not have a sight of it again?'Q2 - Thoughts on Boromirs temptation?Q3 - How do you think this compares with Frodo offering the ring to Galadriel?The two powers strove in him. For a moment, perfectly balanced between their piercing points, he writhed, tormented. Suddenly he was aware of himself again, Frodo, neither the Voice nor the Eye: free to choose, and with one remaining instant in which to do so. He took the Ring off his finger. He was kneeling in clear sunlight before the high seat. A black shadow seemed to pass like an arm above him; it missed Amon Hen and groped out west, and faded. Then all the sky was clean and blue and birds sang in every tree.Q4 - What would have happened to Frodo if the Ring took control?​​Sam passed his hand over his eyes, brushing away the tears. ‘Steady, Gamgee!' he said. ‘Think, if you can! He can't fly across rivers, and he can't jump waterfalls. He's got no gear. So he's got to get back to the boats. Back to the boats! Back to the boats, Sam, like lightning!'Q5 - Sam is brilliant!‘Of course it is,' answered Sam. ‘But not alone. I'm coming too, or neither of us isn't going. I'll knock holes in all the boats first.' Frodo actually laughed. A sudden warmth and gladness touched his heart. ‘Leave one!' he said. ‘We'll need it. But you can't come like this without your gear or food or anything.'Q6 - What do you think?

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Tom Harper joins Manaia Stewart for another Sunday Scenario... Could you survive the battle of Helms Deep? The Daily Agenda is powered by Musashi - Fuelling athletes like Aragorn son of Arathorn, Gimli son of Gloin, Legolas of the Woodland Realm, Manaia Stewart & Tom Harper for more than 30 years.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Not all Middle-Earth movies are big-budget Hollywood productions. Thomas Salerno, Kaitlyn Facista, and Jeff Haecker review the fan-made LOTR film "Born of Hope" and discuss the bittersweet tale of Aragorn's parents Arathorn and Gilraen. The post Born of Hope appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Oriana's choice of topic: land. By default the Middle-earth legendarium is about a place that never was, however rooted in the actual planet we live on, and the range of details from sweeping mountains and vast continents to small roads and fields evident throughout the cycle of stories is a key part of what has made Tolkien's work so vivid and loved. Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are specifically about journeys as the key plotline, where characters move into spaces that they'd only heard about dimly or not at all as they seek to fulfill their aims. That said, there's certainly more than this to how Tolkien considers and situates the geography of his creation, including the in-universe explanations of that creation to start with and Melkor's marring of it. How has Tolkien's grounding of Middle-earth in the feeling of Northern Europe in general shaped perceptions of fantasy worlds since, and what authors and traditions have worked against it? What are the senses of how layers of history have both informed and shaped the land and the peoples who were and are there in the legendarium, and how does that emerge along the way as the stories progress? Have the expectations and experiences of quick and easy travel shaped our reaction to understanding how slow journeys are, especially on foot, as was the case for most of human history? And did the stones of Eregion indeed actually speak?SHOW NOTES.Jared's doodle. And who wouldn't enjoy that view, we ask?The WGA strike is of course still happening. And you should still support it! And the actors too!And indeed, Andy Serkis's The Silmarillion reading is out!So yes, not only did a fan purchase the Magic: The Gathering The One Ring card by lucky chance, following the episode recording he sold it to hardcore MTG fan Post Malone. Truly this is a world we are in.The promo performance of “Now And For Always” from the revival of the LOTR musical is pretty nice! Performances did start soon after the episode recording and an initial Guardian review was quite complimentary. More promo photos are available, and again there's always our episode on the original production…The Rings of Power Emmy nominations. Of course, when the Emmys themselves will happen is another matter.The Society of American Archivists' announcement of William Fliss's award for his continuing work with the Marquette University Tolkien archive.We meant to mention that fellow Megaphonic podcast The Spouter-Inn discussed The Fellowship of the Ring as part of a cluster of books about land, and then had Oriana on as a guest.Much of the Christopher Tolkien-edited History of Middle-earth series is essentially about Tolkien's decades-long process of setting down what Middle-earth actually was. Among the key books in the series in this regard are The Shaping of Middle-earth and Morgoth's Ring.I suspect most of us had our own Oregon Trail experiences.No, we are not going to relitigate the Eagles. Just listen to our episode.The article on Tolkien and Aldo Leopold is Lucas Niiler's 1999 piece “Green Reading: Tolkien, Leopold and the Land Ethic.”Who wouldn't love the Glittering Caves? (And indeed, check out our dwarves episode as well as our Ghân-Buri-Ghân episode.)Colonialism/imperialism and environmental destruction? Who could guess there'd be a connection. (Enjoy this book for some other light reading.)Very light, but this piece on Roman ruins in the present day helps underscore this sense of persistence into the present Tolkien captures well. (In contrast, the Duwamish have had to fight erasure.)If you want to go to Three Rivers, learn a little more about it.A 2015 Vox piece on the invention and criminalization of jaywalking.Peter Jackson's vision of Isengard as industrial hellhole. (The tree being flung down is at 1:20.)Earthsea is always a vibe but as Jared notes, check out Annals of the Western Shore.A Thousand Thousand Islands is indeed no longer going, sadly, but you can get a taste of it here.Guy Gavriel Kay's had quite the career!And indeed some younger authors to check out who aren't doing Europe all over again include R. F. Kuang and Tasha Suri.Fonda Lee has the Green Bone Saga to check out, aka the ‘Jade' series.And indeed the fan film Born of Hope about Arathorn is on YouTube!Support us and our network on Patreon and you can join us to talk Tolkien (and more!) in our friendly Discord.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Character analysis: Aragorn   Manu (@ManuclearBomb) and Emily (@JRRTweetien) inquire about the strange man in the corner, who's done nothing but stare at us since we arrived. It's the Stridersode! Today we go in-depth on Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and how his role in the text differs greatly from his characterization in the films - plus a lot of chatter about Viggo being a good dude! --- Become a Patron of My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast   My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast Reference Guide My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast on Twitter My Brother, My Captain, My Podcast on Instagram Manu's Twitter Emily's Twitter

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I det här avsnittet kastar sig Fantasyklubben över frågan: är Aragorn son av Arathorn en fuckboy? För hur är det egentligen med hans och Arwens förhållande? Tar han ansvar för hur han beter sig mot Éowyn? Frågorna och fnissen hopar sig. Det blir en djupdykning i en av fantasyvärldens mest älskade karaktärer och Emilia kräver svar på frågan: är Tolkien och Linnea två obotliga romantiker? Följ oss gärna på instagram, @fantasyklubben!

Hello and welcome to Front End Chatter, Britain's chattiest motorcycling podcast with him, Simon Hargreaves and him, Martin Fitz-Gibbons, and supported as ever by the wonderful folk at Bennetts, the bike insurance specialists, and BikeSocial.co.uk, the best biking website, er, on the internet. And on E166 we have for your aural delectation: the fallout and the fall-offs from Aragon, son of Arathorn, including Marc ‘Mayhem' Marquez a farewell to Dovi, the new Dani Pedrosa speculation around the new Honda Hornet 750 parallel twin and Transalp more speculation around Suzuki's forthcoming parallel twin adventure bike and roadster, including why it could be an 800, not a 700 a whole thing about the future of motorcycling if there's anyone left, a bit of FECsack including Suzuki power modes, Groms, and how crash recovery isn't the same thing as breakdown recovery. Thanks for listening, please send thoughts, questions, contributions and other scribbled notes to anything@frontendchatter.com @SimonHbikes @Mufga

One of the biggest questions of our age is what we are to make of ourselves in a post-pandemic reality. If we allow it, hardship can unlock a deeply satisfying way of living; however, it requires an ability to live in the tension of survival and progress. When we are no longer reacting, there comes a moment where we commit to transforming our life into something deeper. In this episode, I'll look at Aragorn, son of Arathorn, King of Gondor and Arnor, and share 7 lessons from his life story that can help us complete this transformative quest. 

We continue along down the road today where we pick back up with our favorite hobbits and tag along through the next sequence of events that unfold between Chapter 6-Chapter 10 of The Fellowship of the Ring!   Join us as we tag along on a trip through The Old Forest, meet a strange yet friendly character that helps them out of a bind who is more than meets the eye, tangle with a Barrow wight, enjoy a few brews at The Prancing Pony, and are introduced to a very important Ranger.   With Chase & Josh providing the highlights of each chapter, giving their respective takeaways, pondering thought provoking questions and closing out with some debates, this is one you don't want to miss!   "I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will."

This week on Slash and Burn, we revisit Lord of the Rings! Join us as Kera, the fanfiction veteran, and Steve, the lovable noob, revisit fanfiction about Lord of the Rings! We have stories featuring Boromir (Steward of Gondor), Legolas (Son of Thranduil), Aragorn (Son of Arathorn), Gimli (Son of Gloin) and more! As always, there is explicit content not meant for most adults, let alone children. You've been warned. slashandburnpod.tumblr.com twitter.com/slashandburnpod slashandburnpod@gmail.com / slashandburnpud@gmail.com

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In which we learn how many Minbari it takes to screw in a lightbulb. “Race through Dark Places” introduces a spicy new look for Delenn, Bester's spam filter, and our confusion about what precisely the value of a credit is in this universe. In “Coming of Shadows” we discuss design considerations for ships that are black on slightly darker black, a cameo from Aragorn son of Arathorn (wait, wrong podcast, Jeffrey Sinclair), and the fact that EarthGov… Dome… Force… Alliance… really needs a style guide.  Connect with the show at @babylonpodjectHelp us keep the lights on via our Patreon!Justen can be found at @justenwritesAna can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings."The Voice" of the Babylon Podject is provided by Alyson Grauer, who can be found at @dreamstobecomeClips from the original show remain copyrighted by Warner Bros, Inc. and are used under the Fair Use doctrine.Music attribution:The Descent by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descentLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Join Red Chill Cinema as Brian & Lindsey look at a video from Cinema Therapy which tries to make the case as to why Aragorn son of Arathorn is the very embodiment of anti-toxic masculinity, which of course is something that all men NEED to learn.

Join us on Red Chill Cinema as we look at a video from a channel called Cinema Therapy which tries to make the case as to why Aragorn son of Arathorn is the very embodiment of anti-toxic masculinity, which of course is something that all men NEED to learn

This week we discuss season 1, episodes 21 and 22 of the 2019 Fruits Basket anime.Fight club bracket“Not all men. You’re right. Aragorn, son of Arathorn, would never.” FB groupThe Church of Decemberism FB groupwitch/trap door gifNoodle PeopleFreytag StructureDenpa WavesDark PhoenixMichael Fassbender (very important!)Rolodex (a portmanteau!)Kenai Lake, AlaskaContact:EmailTwitterTumblr

Welcome to another episode of Lunch Break Nerd Brawl where we have a couple nerds debate and some other people judge them on their arguments. This week we change it up a bit we have returning guest James and our new guest Devin on the podcast to debate one another as Ryan and Ty judge them. As you can guess on the title we are talking Lord of The Rings Vs Game of Thrones. It's the most original idea that no one has ever thought of before. Tune in to hear our match ups and the surgically precision arguments that our amazing guest brawler come up with. If you love Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and Arya Stark or Frodo Baggins, Gandalf the Grey, and Aragorn II, son of Arathorn or hate them all give this episode a listen you're guaranteed to love it. As always feel free to join our conversation on all of our Social media things and stuff!

Surrendering our Dreams Just like we all have fears, we all have dreams. Just like God wants us to surrender our fears to Him, He also wants us to surrender our dreams. But surrendering doesn't always mean give up on. It can mean go hard after but be open to God changing the plan as you go. Show Notes: Surrender is one of those hot-button words in Christian circles. As a teenager, I heard it a lot, but I only knew what it meant in very vague terms. I think one of the big reasons for this was we lost our understanding of how the Holy Spirit is to be a constant companion and guide in the Christian life. But we’ll talk more about that in future episodes. Today I want to look at a specific facet of surrender. We’ve already been looking at it in part, though I didn’t really use that word. I said that it is right to conquer our fears with God’s help and power and to step out and do whatever He calls us to do, regardless of how frightening it is. But just like everyone has fears, we all have dreams, too. They range from a nice house, to a spouse, to mountains of chocolate, to leaving a legacy, to winning a million dollars, to adopting a hundred kids in Africa. We have crazy dreams and realistic dreams, selfish dreams and selfless dreams. Just like our fears, God wants our dreams. It’s all part of the process of our will aligning with God’s will, of surrender. Like I’m sure all of you do, I have my own ideas of how my life should go. I am twenty-seven years old and very single. If you had asked me ten or even five years ago if I would get this close to thirty and still have no romantic prospects, I’d have told you that I sure hope not. I want a husband and kids more than I can express. I watch my friends and younger siblings walk through these steps of life, and I keep wondering if I am destined to be single for the rest of my life. On the bad days, I’ve done nonsensical things like searched my married friends’ social media for proof of their happiness and joined an online dating site. It’s because I’m afraid of being alone, afraid that my dream will never come true. This is a different type of fear than we’ve talked about before. The fears we’ve discussed so far are those that keep you from doing something. On the other hand, these are fears that can cause you to do things you regret. A lot of the process for dealing with them is the same, though. There are still lies and truth you have to figure out. Along with those steps, you have to surrender the dream. That doesn’t mean trying to change what you want to the opposite thing, like if I can convince myself that being married and having kids is really a terrible existence, then I can be fine being single. That’s only a temporary fix. Those dreams and desires are ingrained and even God-given. They don’t go away so easily. But wait, if they’re God-given, why aren’t they coming true? Why do I have to surrender them, if they’re in line with what God wants? First of all, God-given doesn’t necessarily mean in line with what God wants. It just means he has a purpose for them. I really love kids. That’s integrally related to my desire to have some of my own. Because of that, I work well with them, I mentor them, I care for them. I serve my friends by babysitting. I work in camp ministry. It’s all related, and those parts are good, because they’re not fear-driven. It’s when I allow my fear of the dream never coming true to make me not trust God and do things I wouldn’t normally do that it’s a problem. We need to give our dreams to God because we are called to follow His will in all things. Just like we’re not allowed to have private sins He can’t say ‘no’ to, we’re not allowed to have private dreams he can’t deny. It might sound harsh, but remember, God knows what’s best for you. It’s like a parent telling their kid they can’t have chocolate before dinner or to not touch the hot stove. They’re protecting them from what they know to be bad, but the child doesn’t know better and can only see far enough to know that they want something that they’re not getting. I wonder if, when we get to Heaven, we’ll get to see all of the things we threw grownup tantrums about that would have ended so badly if God had allowed us to have them. There are two reasons that we should give over our dreams to God and be willing to go wherever He leads: the moral reason and the personal reason. The moral reason goes like this. God is Creator of everything. By that fact, He owns all. Everything and everyone owes Him their loyalty and is responsible to do as He asks. On top of that, God the Son gave His life on the cross for you as a ransom to sin and death, to which you had unwittingly pledged your life. Now He owns you doubly. It reminds me of a scene in The Fellowship of the Ring movie where Legolas stands in the Council of Elrond and corrects Boromir’s flippant treatment of Aragorn. “This is no mere ranger. He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. You owe him your allegiance.” In that moment, Boromir has a choice. Legally speaking, this guy is his king. But Boromir is a proud man, son of the Steward of Gondor, a nation which has existed without a king for almost a thousand years. His response is very telling. “Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king.” We are also very proud people. We think that because our lives have run for so long without surrendering to the rightful king, we don’t need to. This is why many people don’t really start to follow hard after Christ until after something goes terribly wrong in their life. Suddenly the ruling steward isn’t doing such a great job. Maybe following the king would be better. Secondly, we have the personal reason. God doesn’t command us to obey Him and then remain distant, waiting to punish us when we don’t. He’s personable. As we saw earlier, He cares very deeply about our lives and seeks our ultimate good in everything He does. His idea of obedience is not just “do as I say,” it’s “do as I do.” When Jesus left the Earth, He promised His disciples that He would send the Helper, the Holy Spirit, third person of the Godhead, to be with them and help them. We don’t have to obey on our own. It’s not a taskmaster we follow but a Helper, Comforter, Counselor, and Guide. Like Aragorn, God builds the relationship, gives us reasons to trust Him, and is always on our side. At the end of his life, Boromir changes his tune. He says to Aragorn, “I would have followed you my brother, my captain, my king.” Who Aragorn was never changed. The honor and allegiance he was owed never wavered. But now Boromir gives it gladly, because he sees more clearly who Aragorn is and that he deserves loyalty. Who God is never changes. The honor and glory he’s due never lessens. We are called to a high standard, but we are indwelt with One who makes it possible and is always advocating for us. Still, there are days, weeks, months, and maybe years when we don’t feel like it. How do we take the knowledge that we should turn our dreams and desires over to God and live the way He has called us into a desire to want to do just that? We all know the tension between should and want. It’s the reason we know we should be on a diet, but we eat the chocolate cake anyway. We have goals, ideal places we’d like to be—slimmer, richer, healthier, more spiritually active, a better friend, etc. However, our day-to-day actions are sending us in the other direction. We prioritize and desire the now reward more than the then reward. The same is true in our spiritual lives. Our mind is a constant battleground, whether we realize it or not. The two sides are our flesh—or sinful nature—and the new ‘us’ that the Holy Spirit transformed when we were saved. I heard a sermon a few years ago by John Lynch that helped cement my understanding of the new me. He said we have a new name that reflects who we are: Christin________. For example, my name would be Christinhannahrebekah. I am different, fused with the Spirit of Christ. However, there is still a war going on, because until Heaven and the final transformation of my body, I still have the flesh nagging at my mind. It shoots thoughts and desires into my heart that, on a good day, I would never consider. Not every day is a good day, though. The thoughts of the flesh sound like this: “You can’t wait. Take it now.” “You can’t trust that God will provide. Cut the corner. Cheat the system. Take what’s yours. Look out for yourself.” “Telling that lie about them will make you feel better about yourself than speaking truth will.” “You can look at him/her and not sin. You’re not actually committing adultery. Don’t worry, I’ll never push you that far.” “They meant to do that. Get them back.” We can all think back to times in our lives when thoughts like this have come up and when we’ve listened to them. Why is that? If we were being logical, we would know that those are all lies sent to destroy us. We would agree that the long-term effects aren’t worth the short-term rewards. Then why do we do it? Why do we listen? Because we’re not primarily logical. We’re primarily emotional. Psychologist and professor of Leadership Ethics, Jonathan Haidt explains it like this. Your emotions are an elephant. The rider is your logic. The elephant is big and can go and do what it wants. However, with careful and deliberate effort, the rider can learn to direct the elephant (The Happiness Hypothesis, 2006). For us as Christians, the presence of the Holy Spirit makes the rider’s job a little less difficult. God wants us to be in control of our wild desires so that we can turn them toward Him and serve Him better. One way we can do this is by increasing our desire for God. When our desire for God is the strongest of the desires we have, we will head the right way every time. How do we increase our desire for God? First, we have to realize just how wonderful God wants us to feel. My tutor in this subject has been John Piper, and he has written far more on this subject than I ever will be able to. His motto is that “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. (Desiring God, 2011)” The summary is this: God is crazy about you. He designed you with emotions and emotional needs and desires. He created you for joy. He wants you to be happy. The problem is that when sin entered the world, we forgot what our affections were designed for. God made us to know Him and serve Him and be so happy in the process. But we got lost. Now we think that money, power, sex, the best food, and friends telling us we’re the greatest will bring us joy. All of those things turn sour and will ultimately destroy us. The one pleasure that can never run dry is that of knowing God. We can never have enough of Him. He will never turn sour. When we know this and still don’t desire to know and follow God, it’s probably because of one of two reasons—distrust or apathy. When I have a dream that I don’t get, I am hurt, or something else goes wrong, I might blame God and shove it in His face. “Why? I thought you said you loved me and wanted me to be happy! This isn’t making me happy!” In this case, we have to go back to the truth. God does not change. He is not fickle. God does want us to be happy, but He also sees the bigger picture. He doesn’t want us to find our happiness in our circumstances and earthly possessions. He wants us to find it in Him. C.S. Lewis used the analogy of standing in a toolshed and seeing the sunbeams coming through holes in the walls. When he stood to the side, the beams were beautiful, the brightest thing around. These represent God’s gifts to us, the good things in life. When he stood inside of the beam, however, he could behold the sun, the brightest thing of all—God (God in the Dock, 1970). I’m going to take the illustration one step further. When bad things happen in our lives, it’s like someone has covered up the holes in the wall. There is no more sunbeam, and it looks like the sun has altogether abandoned us. We’re wrong. All we need to do is step outside the toolshed. The sun has been there all along. It was only our perspective that was messing with our beliefs and emotions. The second reason we don’t desire God is apathy. Apathy is so deadly. By its definition, it couldn’t care less. When you’re apathetic, there is nothing that will motivate you. You have no desire to be anywhere but where you are. You’re content and complacent, slowly dying and not caring at all. Because of the monotone of our first-world life, we all fall prey to this at some point. We lose sight of the purpose of our lives. We think what we do doesn’t really make a difference, whether good or bad. We fall back into our pet sins and neglect our quiet time. We allow fears to creep back in and keep us from being useful. We use busyness as an excuse. Like moss growing on a slow-moving sloth, we start to look just like the environment around us, and we don’t care at all. If this is you, wake up! God wants more for you and your life! He wants to make you happy, not complacent. He desires you be filled with the Spirit, overflowing with joy and love for others, not mildly content but deep down wishing there was something more to life. There is! It’s Him! How do we get out of apathy? How do we create desire where there is none? Step One: Pray. Your life depends on it. Ask for help. You don’t need to manufacture a desire for God on your own. God is ready and willing to help you, to drag you out of the muck of apathy, clean you up, and put you back on the path of serving Him. Get down on your knees and ask Him to rescue you from yourself. Step Two: Make a long-term commitment. Your life is God’s. You owe Him your allegiance. So make it real. Write it down on a piece of paper. Surrender control. Whether you’re apathetic, untrusting, or in a good place, write it down. Scribe the dreams you’re afraid He’ll never fulfill. Write down the ones He’s giving you that you’re afraid to go after. Tell Him you’re His to do with as He wants. Step Three: Find accountability. When it comes to beating apathy, this is an absolutely vital step. Find someone you don’t want to disappoint and tell them you need help staying on track. Set goals with them for each week and what you’re going to accomplish toward where God is calling you. Without strong accountability, often the small flame of our desire to do something greater and get out of an apathetic pattern splutters out after a short while. I think a major contributor to the culture of apathy is that our dreams are too small. I had a conversation with a friend the other day about what her next steps would be. She didn’t know if, after summer, she wanted to go to school or do an internship or something else. I asked her what her end goal was, where she wanted to be in ten years. She gave me a response that I felt wasn’t really her. I helped her understand a little more of what she was looking at if she went that route and voiced my concerns about it not fitting with her personality and what I had previously understood she wanted out of life. I pressed her for her biggest dream, what she really wanted to do but felt would never happen. She told me. I helped her see it wasn’t so unattainable as she thought, and together we made steps to get there. I’m willing to bet you can relate. What dreams do you have that you think are too big? What excites you and gets you thinking about how awesome it would be to ___________? These dreams are God-given. They’re not too big. When we tell ourselves that, we are willing to settle for little dreams, ones we feel are more attainable. When we do that, we have less drive to achieve. We tell ourselves we won’t end up making a difference, even if those little dreams come true. We fall into apathy. To avoid this pattern, we need big dreams; we need God dreams. I believe every one of us has a crazy dream inside us that God has placed there for us to chase after. When we do, we will find ourselves on the wildest ride of our life. In the end, it may not work out exactly as we pictured it, but that’s okay. Like I said earlier, just because a dream is God-given doesn’t always mean it will happen the way you originally wanted or expected, but it does mean that God is going to use it. So long as you’re moving forward in what He wants, He will continue to clarify and give life to that dream until you find yourself living the version of it that He planned all along. That is the best place you could ever be. Don’t settle. Don’t tell yourself, “That could never happen.” Dream big. Trust God, go after it with all your heart, and wait with eager expectation for what He will do through you.

We return to Middle-Earth and take a closer look at Aragorn! Aragorn is also one of the main character from J.R.R. Tolkien's book Lord of the Rings. He is a man with many names; Aragorn, son of Arathorn, The Dúnadan, "Man of the west" or Númenórean, Longshanks, Strider, Wingfoot, Envinyatar, Estel, Thorongil, and Elessar Telcontar or "Elfstone Strider". He can be seen in the film series The Lord of the Rings-trilogy, where he is played by Viggo Mortensen. We have already talked about Legolas, but what race and class is the King of the Reunited Kingdom? And what about his sword Andúril "Flame of the West"? Listen to find out how we stat Aragorn! Click here for Aragorns Character sheet!

"If by my life or death I can protect you, I will." Welcome to Episode #15 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Steph about her crush on Aragorn, son of Arathorn.Disappointments: How many different ways can you say Éowyn? Do you pronounce every author's name incorrectly? You were right the first time: Strider was almost called "Trotter". He was "Stomper" in Bored of the Rings. Jennifer Grek Martin: “Two Roads to Middle Earth:” Comparing the Visualization of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Cinematic TrilogyMariah Huehner: “I am No Man” Doesn’t Cut It: The Story of EowynVirtuella: Aragorn - a feminist’s nightmare?Thessaly La Force (NY Times): Viggo Mortensen, the Unlikely Leading ManJudy Ann Ford & Robin Anne Reid: Aragorn’s Journey Towards Kingship in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the RingsLynette R. Porter: Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the ScreenAlso, here's the picture of Stuart Townsend as Aragorn, an article about the unpublished letter, the Tumblr posts from Trekkie-Lover and Smokesprite, The Anthology of Aragorn Illness and Injury Fiction, an article about The Mellon Chronicles, and Anarchistica's comment on a reddit thread.And here's a video of Mysonne doing a much better job than me of expressing how men need to do better.

We wanted to take some time to talk about one of Tolkien's most bad ass characters, and one of our personal favorite characters, Aragorn Son of Arathorn! Tune in as we talk all about King Elessar, the Chieftain of the Dúnedain Rangers.

We wanted to take some time to talk about one of Tolkien's most bad ass characters, and one of our personal favorites, Aragorn Son of Arathorn! Tune in as we talk all about King Elessar, the Chieftain of the Dúnedain Rangers.

Concerning the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen, from Arador and Arathorn to Elessar and the Evenstar... Tolkien's Overture - Coming Soon! - 3:00 Background (Arathorn, Aragorn, & Arnor) - 7:00 Arwen, Gilraen, Elrond - 12:00 Aragorn in the wilderness - 24:00 Arwen & Aragorn pledge their troth - 29:00 Aragorn's death - 46:00 Arwen's death - 53:00 Correspondence - 59:00 For more on this episode and The Tolkien Road podcast, please visit TolkienRoad.com or Facebook.com/TolkienRoad. Also, follow us on Twitter via @TolkienRoad. Finally, please send correspondence to TolkienRoadPodcast@gmail.com.

Aragorn, Son of Arathorn, blah blah. Clearly the inspiration for the Ranger class in D&D, right? Well, maybe, but there are a couple of other influences you should know about and they rest squarely in the military and the the lands of kings. So let's dig into that a bit and along the way talk about why the ranger class is so messed up. Or not, depending on your point of view. You can support GM Word of the Week on Patreon.

Social media marketing is here, it's here to stay, and it's bigger than ever. But who can keep up with the trends, the new networks, and the shifting sands of strategy and tactics? How do you know what to spend your time on, and what's a waste? Who could possibly sort through this mass of possible opportunities or pitfalls? You- that's who! All you really need is the 2015 Social Media Marketing Industry Report. In today's episode, I'll tell you where to get it, why it's important, what to look for, and how you can use this valuable piece of marketing intelligence to catapult your social media marketing forward in the remaining half of the year! Other reasons to keep listening include: How to write a $10 Million sales page… Why you can have hope no matter how big your challenges… And your last chance to get a free training video on how to start, run, and grow a business that changes the world. Spiritual Foundations You Lose Nothing Because God Restores Everything No matter what situation you find yourself in, you can be assured that God sees you, cares for you, and will provide for you… and beyond that, he will restore what the enemy has stolen, and set you up better than you were before! In the Old Testament, God protected Hagar and her son Ishmael when she was cast out from Abraham's house. Hagar called Him “the God who sees me”. While Job was severely tested, God did restore everything he lost and more. When Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers, unknown to them he rose to rule over all of Egypt. He was not bitter, but said, “What you intended for evil, God intended for good, so that I could save your lives and many others.” And in Romans 8:28 the Apostle Paul tells us “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good…” So remember, no matter what may come your way, God is for you and not against you, he will restore you to better than you were before. His grace is bigger than any setback, problem, or circumstance, even the ones that seem impossible. He sees you. He restores and heals. What the enemy intends for your evil, God will repurpose for your good. And He makes ALL THINGS work together for your good! Tip Of the Week Would you like to know how to write a $10 Million sales page? I'm going to show you just that next Tuesday, June 2, 2015 in a special free Masterclass. This is a live training, so I'm sorry – if you're listening to this after June 2, 2015, this opportunity has already passed you by. That's why it's a good idea to listen to the podcast every week, and subscribe to my email newsletter! We only have 1,000 seats available for this Masterclass, so register now at https://rayedwards.com/masterclass. Feature Presentation: The State of Social Media Marketing The 2015 Social Media Marketing Industry Report is out. The purpose of the report is to show how marketers are using social media to grow their businesses. The report is authored by Michael Stelzner, the founder of Social Media Examiner. It's their 7th annual report, 52 pages, and over 80 charts. It's all easy to understand and digest, and Mike takes the time to point out the “not-so-obvious” findings. Over 3,700 marketers responded to the survey that produced this report, and I don't know of any other source from which you can get this kind of data. Why This Report Is Of Value To You I highly recommend you get the report for yourself and start digesting it. Most of your peers will probably ignore it… and of those who download it, most will not read it… and of those who do read it, only a small, single-digit percentage of them will actually take the time to understand it and reason through the implications. Place yourself in that small minority, and you give yourself an enormous success advantage you can start capitalizing on immediately. I'll give you a top line taste of what can be gained from this report in moment, but let me echo some advice form the report itself. This information is for you regardless of your experience level with social media marketing. If you're experienced with social media, compare yourself against other marketers, see which platforms they're looking at next and determine whether you're achieving the same benefits as your more experienced peers. If you're a beginner (or really any level), take a look at the time commitment, benefits and platforms that your peers are using. • The time commitment: The report examines the weekly hours marketers invest in their social media efforts. This analysis will be helpful for marketers just getting started or those seeking support staff. • The benefits of social media marketing: This section of the study reveals all of the major advantages marketers are achieving with their social media efforts. It also looks at how weekly time invested and years of experience affect the results. • Most-used social media platforms: Discover which platforms marketers are using and how their usage will change this year. The report also examines which platforms experienced marketers are using. Other interesting, and more advanced topics in the report include… • Social media networks people want to learn more about: In this section, you'll discover the social platforms that marketers are most interested in learning about. • The report also examines the role of content in social media marketing, paid social media and how marketers respond when new networks emerge. • Plus questions such as how business-to-business (B2B) companies differ from business-to-consumer (B2C) companies and whether the size of a business has any bearing on results. • Perhaps most interesting of all, the report also highlights significant changes since last year's study. I Know What You REALLY Want… Here Are The Top Nuggets From The Report Okay, I know how it is. You're busy and you want me to read the report FOR you and give you a summary. And that's what I'm going to do. But it would be a huge mistake for you to leave it there. You see, there is a very deep and valuable advantage and opportunity for you in the report, but to make it work you're going to have to get the report and mine this particular pot of gold for yourself. I'll explain all that shortly, but for now, let me satisfy your curiosity with some of the primary findings… • Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn hold the top spots for future plans: A significant 66% of marketers plan on increasing their use of these social networks. • Marketers want to learn most about Facebook: While 93% of marketers are using Facebook, 68% want to learn more about it and 62% plan on increasing Facebook activities. • Video becoming important: A significant 57% of marketers use video in their marketing; however, 72% want to learn more about video marketing and plan on increasing their use of video. • Podcasting on growth trajectory: Only 10% of marketers are involved with podcasting, yet 26% plan on increasing their podcasting activities and 43% of marketers want to learn more about podcasting. • Facebook and LinkedIn are the two most important social networks for marketers. When allowed to only select one platform, 52% of marketers selected Facebook, followed by LinkedIn at 21%. • Most marketers aren't sure their Facebook marketing is effective: Only 45% of marketers think that their Facebook efforts are effective. • Tactics and engagement are top areas marketers want to master: At least 91% of marketers want to know the most effective social tactics and the best ways to engage their audience with social media. The Hidden Opportunity I Spoke Of Earlier Perhaps the most opportunity-rich information in the report are the top 5 social media questions marketers want answered. The top social media questions marketers want answered can be summarized in the following keywords: tactics, engagement, measurement, audience and tools—in that order. But do not stop here. If you are a social media marketing provider or agency, if you are a consultant or coach, or i you train people in social media marketing, this is the vein of pure gold you're looking for. Here, in this section of the report, you will find the topics for your next consulting sessions, online courses, blog posts, and podcasts! My advice: go beyond the obvious top line conclusions, spend some time reading an digesting, and think. Think about the following: How can you take advantage of the trends for promoting your own business? How can you model the best behavior for you clients and students? What connections can you draw that take data from different areas of this report and tie them together into new strategic and tactical approaches to marketing incorporating social media. And then dig deeper: how can marry your specific knowledge of your target market with the trends and current needs of marketers revealed in this report, and use that mixture to create new rocket fuel for marketing programs? Thinking of this nature will give you an advantage your competitors will not even understand, let alone duplicate. For those of you intrepid enough to actually heed my advice, you'll find more than 80 charts that visually convey some fascinating findings. For example, the report looks at which social networks are used by those who invest the most time in social media marketing, the benefits achieved by those who've been at this for years and how marketers respond to new social networks. There's much more to be mined from this report. I've only scratched the surface. What most will fail to realize is what a generous gift Mike Stelzner gives us with this report. In fact, I am honestly going to try and convince him to charge for this. An independent study, commissioned to retrieve the same level of response, exactness of data, and rigorous construction of the questions to yield unbiased, statistically reliable results would surely be a minimum six-figure investment. You get all this for free. At least until I can talk Mike out of the crazy tree, and get him start charging something for this treasure chest… which is filled with treasure maps to other treasure chests! Someday. But in the words of Aragorn, son of Arathorn, not this day. For now, it's still free, so go download your report now at: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/report2015/ What is the most interesting and useful insight you got from the new report? May I Ask A Favor? Subscribe to the show in iTunes and give us a rating and review. Go ahead and subscribe now, and give us your star rating and review on iTunes. We will definitely mention you on this show. We are also BACK on Stitcher.com, so if you prefer Stitcher, please subscribe there. If you don't already get the email newsletter, sign up for that and get the new free video: “3 Keys to Change the World and Make Your Business Grow.” I'll be taking this video down soon, so if you want to get access to it, do it now! Connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or LinkedIn. Get The Transcript Click here to get the transcript. Transcripts provided by SuccessTranscripts – a great solution if you need your podcast, sermon, speech, or other audio transcribed.  

Jeremy's corrected list from the Arnor muster: Arathorn, 12 Rangers of the North (6 spears); 5 Dundain (3 Spears); Captain of Arnor (shield), 12 Warriors of Arnor (1 banner); Captain of Arnor (bow), 8 Rangers of Arnor (5 spear)

Genre: LOTRBy: http://www.bornofhope.com/Released: 2009Length: 71 minA scattered people, the descendants of storied sea kings of the ancient West, struggle to survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends its will toward their destruction. Yet amidst these valiant, desperate people, hope remains. A royal house endures unbroken from father to son.This hour long original drama is set in the time before the War of the Ring and tells the story of the Dúnedain, the Rangers of the North, before the return of the King. Inspired by only a couple of paragraphs written by Tolkien in the appendices of the Lord of the Rings we follow Arathorn and Gilraen, the parents of Aragorn, from their first meeting through a turbulent time in their people's history.BornOfHope.mp4

Olá Jogadores e DMs, Hoje vamos falar do herói, rei e ranger Aragon, filho de Arathorn. Venha viajar para a Terra-média com Daniel Anand & Davi Salles! E se você gosta de Dungeons & Dragons e RPG em geral, não deixe de seguir o Rolando 20 no Google+, no Facebook e no Twitter! Sempre tem novidades, […]

In which the team try valiantly to determine what makes for a great hero, how the nature of heroism has changed over time and what makes a Hero attractive to read about -in theory.  And I did say 'try.'It's a big subject (as usual) and we cover quite a bit of ground, but we still manage to wander off topic, insert a certain vegetable repeatedly and pin down the essential pork-pie-ness of Arathorn's boy.  Have a listen then let us know what you think on the Geek Syndicate Facebook Page e-mail us at scrolls@hotmail.co.uk or tweet @scrollscast.Forgot to mention this in the podcast, but the David Gemmell Legend Awards for Fantasy are currently running.  They're down to a short list and you could help swing things.  Be sure to go along and cast your vote.Mr. TheCruel's mosaic-novel-in-progress can be found here if you fancy read along or getting involved.Finally, if anyone interested in hearing how Clover and Dion did on their international debut you can hear the results on Geektress Episode 120 (and I can heartily recommend their website for its quirky humour.)