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. Tolkien

A Book-by-Book Guide to C.S. Lewis' Spiritual Themes

The Trans-cosmic Journeys in The Chronicles of Narnia

Also mentioned:

Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia

Lewis - The Gods Return To Earth [review of Lord of the Rings]

Lewis - Till We Have Faces

Lewis - 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 Strength

Lewis - The Pilgrim's Regress

Tolkien - The Bovadium Fragments

Williams - The Place of the Lion

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In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss chapter 22 of the Quenta Silmarillion, which includes the release of Hurin from captivity, the fall of the kingdom of Doriath, and (most importantly), the death of Entmoot Podcast All-Star Mîm the Petty-dwarf.

Primary sources:

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

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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.

Further reading/listening:

Our episode with Rob Tally

Our episode with Lee Konstantinou

Our episode with Ali Mirzabayati

Konstantinou - Mythic Capital: How Tolkien is Whispering in the Ears of America's Most Powerful Men

Semley (Wired, 10/25) - Elon Musk Really Doesn't Get The Lord of the Rings

Pagliarini (Dissent, Fall 25) - Lula's Unfinished Democracy

Hartrich (Journal of Social History, Fall 24) - The Boundaries of Popular Control in Late Medieval English Towns

Hill - The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714

Livingston - Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War

Tooze - The Wages of Destruction

Kenny's Letterboxd | Sam's Letterboxd

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