In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Cami Agan about the 2018 volume Beren and Luthien and about the textual history of the tale. This episode is a companion piece to our previous episode on chapter 19 of The Silmarillion, which you can find here.

Cami Agan is the Distinguished Professor of Language and Literature at Oklahoma Christian University and a prominent scholar of Tolkien's First Age.

More Cami:

Lúthien Tinúviel and Bodily Desire in the Lay of Leithian

Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth

Hearkening to the Other: A Certeauvian Reading of the Ainulindale

Also mentioned:

Moore - A Song of Greater Power: Tolkien's Construction of Lúthien Tinúviel

Whitaker - Corrupting Beauty: Rape Narrative in The Silmarillion

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