{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62c5cfbd7e8f5c0013c1c8f9/68898e6169e88bb0852bc68b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Gift of Men (w/ Ali Mirzabayati)","description":"<p>In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Ali Mirzabayati about death and mourning in Tolkien's work. Ali published his thesis <a href=\"https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0447596\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Death as a Gift: A Heroic Celebration of Life in The Lord of the Rings</a> in December 2024.</p><p><br></p><p>Ali Mirzabayati is a scholar of medieval literature and modern fantasy, including Tolkien's legendarium.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>More Ali:</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol21/iss2/8/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mourning and Melancholia in The Lord of the Rings</a></p><p><a href=\"https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol21/iss1/5/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sounds of Battle and Battle of Sounds: Belliphonic in Tolkien</a></p><p><a href=\"https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol22/iss1/7/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Beowulf and Théoden: Differing Teaching Methods of Hrothgar and Gandalf</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Further reading/listening:</strong></p><p>Amendt-Raduege - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-sweet-and-the-bitter-death-and-dying-in-j-r-r-tolkien-s-the-lord-of-the-rings-amy-amendt-raduege/8782511\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Sweet and the Bitter: Death and Dying in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings</a></p><p>Vaninskaya - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/fantasies-of-time-and-death-dunsany-eddison-tolkien-anna-vaninskaya/14364896\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fantasies of Time and Death</a></p><p>Freud - <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Classics-Mourning-Melancholia-Penguin/dp/0141183799\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia</a></p><p><br></p><p>Leave us a review! Send us an email at entmootpod@gmail.com!</p>","author_name":"Kenny Talarico & Sam Lieberman"}