A critical book club from the Ancillary Review of Books. Host Jake Casella Brookins invites writers, scholars, and critics to discuss thorny works of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres.
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A critical book club from the Ancillary Review of Books. Host Jake Casella Brookins invites writers, scholars, and critics to discuss thorny works of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres.
A Meal of Thorns 18 – THE SILMARILLION with Eden Kupermintz
A Meal of Thorns
1 hour 19 minutes
8 months ago
A Meal of Thorns 18 – THE SILMARILLION with Eden Kupermintz
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Eden KupermintzTitle: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:anarchySF, heavy blog is heavy, Eden’s work at ARB, the Death // Sentence podcastAlex Pheby’s WaterblackAdrian Tchaikovsky’s House of Open WoundsDarkly Lem’s Transmentation TransienceDeath // Sentence episode on Unknown LanguageThe Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (and others)Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose The Time WarJeff Noon & Steve Beard’s Gogmagog & LudludaThe Going Rogue podcastTolkien’s The Hobbit & The Lord of the RingsRobert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure IslandBen Berman Ghan’s The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits & Eden's reviewThe Kalevala, The Mabinogion, the Matter of BritainThe Folio SocietyGene Wolfe’s The Book of the New SunOctavia Butler’s KindredUrsula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of DarknessSiegfried & the DragonKate Wagner on Wagner’s (no relation) The RingJared Pechaček’s The West PassageThe By-The-Bywater podcastE.R. Eddison’s Mistress of Mistresses, and our episode on that with Jared PechačekThe Tea With Tolkien podcastJohn Milton’s Paradise LostEden’s Death // Sentence episode on one page of the AkallabêthFallout 3 and Fallout: New VegasM. John Harrison, worldbuilding as the “clomping foot of nerdism”Anthony Burgess’s (and probably Stanley Kubrick’s tbf) A Clockwork OrangeBlind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle-Earth and “The Bard's Song”The Hobbit (1977) Dopesmoker EditionFor a concise overview of some of the conservative/fascist love affair with Tolkien, see Robert T. Tally Jr.’s “Tolkien’s Deplorable Cultus”.Jason Guriel’s Forgotten WorkEden’s Bluesky
A Meal of Thorns
A critical book club from the Ancillary Review of Books. Host Jake Casella Brookins invites writers, scholars, and critics to discuss thorny works of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres.