A Conclusion to the Lay of Leithian
Christopher Bartlett
Fiction Production Hall
The tale of Luthien and Beren is one of the Great Tales of the Elder Days in Middle Earth, and yet readers of J. R. R. Tolkien's published wor...
A Flash of Wings
L.F.S. Alden
Fiction Production Hall
A young woman fights to save a life.
A middle-aged woman recovers from a stroke.
An older woman is desperate for her son to find what is missi...
Arda Measured: The Geocosmology of Tolkien's Legendarium
Jackson Mitchell-Bolton
Presentations Hall
Just how big is Arda? Comparing Tolkien’s maps of Middle-earth and Arda, Jackson Mitchell-Bolton estimates the size of Tolkien’s world and qua...
A Waiter Made of Glass
Verlyn Flieger
Signum Press
Award-winning author Verlyn Flieger takes readers through a series of insightful short stories exploring tragic aspects of human nature. A few...
Classical Myths and Legends
Gabriel Schenk, Larry Swain
Lectures
This course places the principle Classical myths and legends in their cultural and historical context, with some attention to discussion of su...
Don’t the Great Tales Never End? Rímur, Late Medieval Iceland, and Tolkien
Galen Miller-Atkins
Academic Production Hall
In this essay the post-classical, legendary, and chivalric sagas (and their rímur counterparts) are explored for their mutual interdependence ...
Eowyn and Dernhelm
Dr. Sara Brown
Presentations Hall
A fascinating paper viewing Tolkien’s characterization of Éowyn through a queer lens. Dr. Sarah Brown proposes that when Éowyn rides as Dernhe...
Exploring Beowulf
Michael Drout
Signum Press
Lovers of Beowulf, Professor Mike Drout has a quest for you if you’re willing to accept it. Many of you may be following his lecture series, E...
Exploring the LotR, Volume 1
Corey Olsen
Signum Press
Exploring the Lord of the Rings is a chapter-by-chapter discussion of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Each of Tolkien's chapters will be cov...
Freyja's Garden
Mary Dockray-Miller
Signum Press
One third of the way through the Old English poem Beowulf (lines 1063-1159), the main characters listen to a bard tell a cryptic tale of a feu...
Introduction to Gothic
Nelson Goering, Paul Peterson
Lectures
The Gothic language, rich in vocabulary and archaic in structure, has survived in the earliest substantial corpus of texts written in any Germ...
Introduction to Old English
Michael Drout
Lectures
Old English (sometimes referred to as Anglo-Saxon) is the earliest recorded stage of English, spoken in Britain during the early Middle Ages. ...
Introduction to Old Norse
Carl Edlund Anderson
Lectures
Old Norse is a term used broadly to refer to languages and dialects of Viking Age and Medieval Scandinavia, and sometimes more specifically to...
Intro to Germanic Philology I
Nelson Goering, Paul Peterson
Lectures
This class offers a survey of the older Germanic languages including Gothic, Old Norse, and Old English, as well as the content and contexts o...
Intro to Germanic Philology II
Nelson Goering, Paul Peterson
Lectures
Building on the survey of the Germanic family in Germanic Philology I, this class will provide an introduction to Germanic comparative philolo...
Language in C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy
Maximilian Hart
Academic Production Hall
A fascinating discussion on C.S. Lewis' approach to language and language creation in Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous St...
Language Invention Through Tolkien
Andrew Higgins
Lectures
There are arguably two elements of Tolkien’s creative work that readers tend to skip over to “get to the good parts.” One of these is Tolkien’...
Lewis and Tolkien
Corey Olsen
Lectures
What similar ideas did Lewis and Tolkien explore? How are they similar in the exploration of these ideas? How are they different?
C.S. Lewis ...
Literary Copernicus: The Cosmic Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
Amy H. Sturgis, Gabriel Schenk, Maggie Parke
Lectures
What inspired Lovecraft’s imagination? How has Lovecraft’s work impacted popular culture today?
In tales such as “The Call of Cthulhu” and At ...
Master of Horror: H.P. Lovecraft
Robbie Park
Presentations Hall
Why is H.P. Lovecraft often called the master of horror? This presentation by Robbie Park surveys Lovecraft’s life and writing career. Explori...