In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam discuss formal democratic institutions (or lack thereof) across Tolkien's legendarium.

Primary sources:

The Hobbit | The Lord of the Rings | The Silmarillion | Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth | The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien |

Secondary sources:

Nardi - Political Institutions in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth | Carpenter - J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography | Hren - Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good | Fonstad - The Atlas of Middle-Earth | Wills - Lincoln At Gettysburg

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