228 – Where Sméagols Swear
The Prancing Pony Podcast
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Swearing by a Deity
Swearing on is defined by the o e d as to take an oath symbolically touching or placing the hand on a sacred object. Now, ok, it's formerly also to swear by a deity or ok, so they were the same, but they cound of evolved in. Even in middle earth, we see that a deity is something that one can swear by. And phroto is paying really close attention to that distinction. He doesn't want galum swearing on the ring. Oh no, not at not clasing his and on the precious. And i can't o, not a chance.
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