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The Entmoot Podcast

The Entmoot Podcast

By: Kenny Talarico & Sam Lieberman
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 Co-hosts Kenny Talarico and Sam Lieberman discuss the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and what they tell us about politics, philosophy, religion, and life.

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  • The Mismeasure of Orcs (w/ Robert Tally)

    The Mismeasure of Orcs (w/ Robert Tally)
    Jun 19 2025
    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 hrs and 24 mins
  • An Echo of an Echo (w/ Stephen Yandell)

    An Echo of an Echo (w/ Stephen Yandell)
    Jun 2 2025

    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 hr and 32 mins
  • Eöl The Pale

    Eöl The Pale
    May 18 2025

    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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