The Gift of Men (w/ Ali Mirzabayati)
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The Gift of Men (w/ Ali Mirzabayati)
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In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Ali Mirzabayati about death and mourning in Tolkien's work. Ali published his thesis Death as a Gift: A Heroic Celebration of Life in The Lord of the Rings in December 2024.
Ali Mirzabayati is a scholar of medieval literature and modern fantasy, including Tolkien's legendarium.
More Ali:
Mourning and Melancholia in The Lord of the Rings
Sounds of Battle and Battle of Sounds: Belliphonic in Tolkien
Beowulf and Théoden: Differing Teaching Methods of Hrothgar and Gandalf
Further reading/listening:
Amendt-Raduege - The Sweet and the Bitter: Death and Dying in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Vaninskaya - Fantasies of Time and Death
Freud - On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
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