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  • Mythic Capital (w/ Lee Konstantinou)

    Mythic Capital (w/ Lee Konstantinou)
    2025/07/21

    In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Lee Konstantinou about Tolkien's right-wing (or neo-reactionary) fans in Silicon Valley. Lee's essay Mythic Capital: How Tolkien is Whispering in the Ears of America's Most Powerful Men, is out now from Arc. Long-time listeners will know that this is our third time talking about this subject -- our first episode on the subject, from November 2022, can be found here, and our second, from July 2024 about then-VP nominee JD Vance, can be found here.


    Lee Konstantinou is a Professor of English at the University of Maryland whose writing has been featured in Slate, Arc, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.


    More Lee:

    Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Strangers in a Strange Land: Science-fictional Notes on the "Abundance" Agenda

    Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction

    Something is Broken In Our Science Fiction


    Further reading/listening:

    Tally (Spectre, 8/24) - Tolkien's Deplorable Cultus

    Canavan (Dissent, 1/25) - Tolkien Against The Grain

    Kakutani (NYT, 5/25) - Why Silicon Valley's Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits


    Douthat (NYT, 6/25) (audio) - Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

    Gellman (The Atlantic, 11/23) - Peter Thiel is Taking A Break From Democracy

    Alexander (Substack, 5/25) - Moldbug Sold Out

    Gabor (Phenomenal World, 2/25) - How To DOGE USAID


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    1 時間 6 分
  • Noldor Lebensraum

    Noldor Lebensraum
    2025/07/05

    In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss chapters 17 and 18 of the Quenta Silmarillion, including the coming of men into Beleriand, the death of Fingolfin, and Hurin and Huor's visit to Gondolin.


    Primary sources:

    The Silmarillion | The Lord of the Rings | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien


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    53 分
  • The Mismeasure of Orcs (w/ Robert Tally)

    The Mismeasure of Orcs (w/ Robert Tally)
    2025/06/19
    In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Robert Tally about his new book The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures, out now from McFarland Books.Robert Tally is a Professor of English at Texas State University. He's written extensively about Tolkien and Marxist literary criticism.More Rob:Representing Middle-earth: Tolkien, Form, and IdeologyJRR Tolkien's The Hobbit: A Critical CompanionLet Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Tolkien's Inhuman CreaturesDemonizing The Enemy, Literally: Tolkien, Orcs, and the Sense of the World WarsThe Southern Phoenix Triumphant: Richard Weaver, or, the Origins of Contemporary U.S. ConservatismAlso mentioned:Bould/Mieville (ed.) - Red Planets: Marxism and Science FictionCroft et. al (ed.) - Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom ShippeyFonstad - Atlas of Middle-EarthJameson - Archaeologies of the FutureJameson - Fables of AggressionJameson - The Political UnconsciousLukas - The Historical NovelMills - The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish ManifestoMohler (Existential Comics) - The Council of ElrondSofge - Orc HolocaustStuart - Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-EarthLeave us a review! Send us an email at entmootpod@gmail.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    2 時間 24 分
  • An Echo of an Echo (w/ Stephen Yandell)

    An Echo of an Echo (w/ Stephen Yandell)
    2025/06/02

    In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Stephen Yandell about Beowulf and the many ways it inspired Tolkien.


    Steve Yandell is a medievalist and Tolkien scholar who has been a Professor of English at Xavier University since 2003. He regularly teaches courses on both Tolkien and medieval literature, including Beowulf.


    More Steve:

    "A Pattern Which Our Nature Cries Out For": The Medieval Tradition of the Ordered Four in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien

    Cruising Faery: Queer Desire in Giles, Niggle, and Smith

    Selection from Math Son of Mathonwy, from the Mabinogi


    The translations:

    Tolkien - Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

    Heaney - Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

    Headley - Beowulf: A New Translation


    Primary sources:

    Tolkien - Beowulf: The Monsters and The Critics (PDF)

    The Lord of the Rings

    The Silmarillion


    Also mentioned:

    Howarth - 1066: The Year of the Conquest

    Leyerle - The Interlace Structure of Beowulf


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    1 時間 32 分
  • Eöl The Pale

    Eöl The Pale
    2025/05/18

    In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss chapters 15 and 16 of the Quenta Silmarillion, including the founding of Gondolin, Thingol's abolition of Quenya, and the tragic tale of Eöl, Beleriand's palest and weirdest elf.


    Primary sources:

    The Silmarillion | The Lord of the Rings | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien


    Also mentioned:

    The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin

    The Summer Book - Tove Jansson

    Butcher's Crossing - John Williams

    Alchemy is real


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  • Femme Fandoms (w/ Robin Anne Reid)

    Femme Fandoms (w/ Robin Anne Reid)
    2025/04/25
    In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Robin Reid about feminist and queer Tolkien scholarship and fandom.Robin Reid is a Tolkien scholar who was a professor of English at Texas A&M University until her retirement in 2020. She is currently working on a book that will be a feminist reception study of women and non-binary readers of Tolkien, with updates posted on her Substack here.More Robin:Women & Tolkien: Amazons, Valkyries, Feminists, and SlashersJ.R.R. Tolkien, Culture WarriorThrusts in the Dark: Slashers' Queer PracticesSources/mentions:Brown - “Éowyn it was, and Dernhelm also”Carpenter - J.R.R. Tolkien: A BiographyCraig - Queer Lodgings: Gender and Sexuality in The Lord of the RingsCrowe - Power in Arda: Sources, Uses, and MisusesDonovan - The Valkyrie Reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the RingsFimi - Tolkien, Folklore, and Foxes (YouTube)Kisor/Vaccaro (ed) - Tolkien and AlterityMerrick - The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction FeminismsQueripel - The Mariner (and his wife): Rethinking Aldarion's (A)sexualityRateliff - The Missing Women: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lifelong Support for Women's Higher EducationSmith - At Home and Abroad: Éowyn's Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the RingsTimmons - Hobbit Sex and SensualityVaccaro - “Dyrne Langað”: Secret Longing and Homo-amory in Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the RingsWalls-Thumma - The Inequality Prototype: Gender, Inequality, and the Valar in Tolkien’s SilmarillionEmail us at entmootpod@gmail.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 時間 20 分
  • Caranthir Always Takes His Cut

    Caranthir Always Takes His Cut
    2025/04/10

    In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss chapters 13 and 14 of the Quenta Silmarillion, including the death of Feanor, the reuniting of the Noldor, and a very long description of a map. To make "Of Beleriand and Its Realms" a bit easier to digest, here are a couple maps: this one by Tolkien himself, this "cleaner" one by Sirelle on DeviantArt, and this political map by u/tolkien_erklaert on Reddit.


    Primary sources:

    The Silmarillion | The Lord of the Rings | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien


    Also mentioned:

    Atlas of Middle-Earth - Karen Wynn Fonstad

    The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien - John Garth

    The Verge - Patrick Wyman


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    59 分
  • Sindar, Sun, Secondborn

    Sindar, Sun, Secondborn
    2025/03/21

    In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss chapters 10, 11, and 12 of the Quenta Silmarillion, including King Thingol of the Sindar, the creation of the sun and moon, and the coming of men (finally).


    Primary sources:

    The Silmarillion | The Lord of the Rings | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien


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    46 分