{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62c5cfbd7e8f5c0013c1c8f9/6950b7f209314afbec9c7af8?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"2025 Wrap-Up and Listener Questions","description":"<p>In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam look back at the year that was, look ahead to the year that's to come, and answer (excellent!) listener questions. Topics include the status of democracy in absolute monarchies like Gondor, connections between Tolkien and Lovecraft, the history of Galadriel, our favorite movies of 2025, Reddit comments about the podcast, and our predictions for 2026 elections in the US and abroad.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Further reading/listening:</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/entmootpod/episodes/the-mismeasure-of-orcs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Our episode with Rob Tally</a></p><p><a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/entmootpod/episodes/mythic-capital\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Our episode with Lee Konstantinou</a></p><p><a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/entmootpod/episodes/the-gift-of-men\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Our episode with Ali Mirzabayati</a></p><p><br></p><p>Konstantinou - <a href=\"https://arcmag.org/mythic-capital/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mythic Capital: How Tolkien is Whispering in the Ears of America's Most Powerful Men</a></p><p>Semley (Wired, 10/25) - <a href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-and-the-trump-administration-really-dont-get-tolkien/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk Really Doesn't Get <em>The Lord of the Rings</em></a></p><p>Pagliarini (Dissent, Fall 25) - <a href=\"https://dissentmagazine.org/article/lulas-unfinished-democracy/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lula's Unfinished Democracy</a></p><p>Hartrich (Journal of Social History, Fall 24) - <a href=\"https://academic.oup.com/jsh/article/58/1/27/7731678\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Boundaries of Popular Control in Late Medieval English Towns</a></p><p><br></p><p>Hill - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-century-of-revolution-1603-1714-christopher-hill/ce0bc0d5d19e0d98\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714</a></p><p>Livingston - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/bloody-crowns-a-new-history-of-the-hundred-years-war-michael-livingston/b88ab521da3d344d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War</a></p><p>Tooze - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-wages-of-destruction-the-making-and-breaking-of-the-nazi-economy-adam-tooze/af1c436304267fd9\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Wages of Destruction</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://boxd.it/5Fiar\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kenny's Letterboxd</a> | <a href=\"https://boxd.it/2TCvZ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sam's Letterboxd</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"}