The Entmoot Podcast

In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam announce ENTMOBY, a four-part miniseries with Professor Robert Tally on Moby-Dick. The first episode will cover chapters 1 through 35 and will release on August 15, and subsequent episodes will release every two weeks. We hope you'll read along with us!

In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam are joined by Earendil-enthusiast Jessica Archer to discuss chapter 24 of the Quenta Silmarillion, on Earendil's voyage and the War of Wrath.Primary sources: The Silmarillion | The Lord of the Rings | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam are joined by Clare Moore and Rory Queripel to discuss their recently released co-edited special issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research, Asexuality in Tolkien's Legendarium.Leave us a review! Email us at entmootpod@gmail.com!

In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss chapter 23 of the Quenta Silmarillion, the tale of Tuor and the fall of Gondolin.Primary sources: The Silmarillion | The Lord of the Rings | The Letters of J.R.R. TolkienFurther reading:The Fall of GondolinGarth - Tolkien and the Great WarLeave us a review! Send us an email at entmootpod@gmail.com!

In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to psychoanalyst and Tolkien scholar John Rosegrant about his book Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss.Leave us a review! Email us at entmootpod@gmail.com!

In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Tom Hillman about his book Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring, and specifically the motif of pity throughout Tolkien's work.Leave us a review! Email us at entmootpod@gmail.com!

In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam explore the state of online Tolkien fandoms, including the main three Tolkien subreddits and some (still kicking!) online forum sites.Leave us a review! Send us an email at entmootpod@gmail.com!

In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk about the US and Israel's war with Iran, and are later joined by Danny Bessner of the American Prestige podcast to discuss his (now quite relevant) 2022 piece The Rings of Power is a Saga for a War-Hungry Nation. Danny Bessner is an Associate Professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He co-hosts the American Prestige podcast, which you can find here or wherever you listen to podcasts.Leave us a review! Email us at entmootpod@gmail.com!

In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Stephen Yandell about CS Lewis and his complex relationship with JRR Tolkien.Steve Yandell is a medievalist and Tolkien/Lewis scholar who has been a Professor of English at Xavier University since 2003.More Steve:Queer Approaches To Tolkien: Essays on the Many Paths to Middle-earth [co-edited with Robin Anne Reid and Christopher Vaccaro)"A Pattern Which Our Nature Cries Out For": The Medieval Tradition of the Ordered Four in the Fiction of J.R.R. TolkienA Book-by-Book Guide to C.S. Lewis' Spiritual ThemesThe Trans-cosmic Journeys in The Chronicles of Narnia Also mentioned:Lewis - The Chronicles of NarniaLewis - The Gods Return To Earth [review of Lord of the Rings]Lewis - Till We Have FacesLewis - The Shoddy Lands [the story where a man is inside a woman's head]Lewis - It All Began With A Picture [essay]Lewis - Surprised By Joy [spiritual memoir]Lewis - That Hideous StrengthLewis - The Pilgrim's RegressTolkien - The Bovadium FragmentsWilliams - The Place of the LionLeave us a review! Email us at entmootpod@gmail.com!