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Credits:

• Guest: Eden Kupermintz
• Title: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• anarchySF, heavy blog is heavy, Eden’s work at ARB, the Death // Sentence podcast
• Alex Pheby’s Waterblack
• Adrian Tchaikovsky’s House of Open Wounds
• Darkly Lem’s Transmentation Transience
• Death // Sentence episode on Unknown Language
• The Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (and others)
• Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose The Time War
• Jeff Noon & Steve Beard’s Gogmagog & Ludluda
• The Going Rogue podcast
• Tolkien’s The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings
• Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
• Ben Berman Ghan’s The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits & Eden's review
• The Kalevala, The Mabinogion, the Matter of Britain
• The Folio Society
• Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun
• Octavia Butler’s Kindred
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
• Siegfried & the Dragon
• Kate Wagner on Wagner’s (no relation) The Ring
• Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage
• The By-The-Bywater podcast
• E.R. Eddison’s Mistress of Mistresses, and our episode on that with Jared Pechaček
• The Tea With Tolkien podcast
• John Milton’s Paradise Lost
• Eden’s Death // Sentence episode on one page of the Akallabêth
• Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas
• M. John Harrison, worldbuilding as the “clomping foot of nerdism”
• Anthony Burgess’s (and probably Stanley Kubrick’s tbf) A Clockwork Orange
• Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle-Earth and “The Bard's Song”
• The Hobbit (1977) Dopesmoker Edition
• For 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 Work
• Eden’s Bluesky