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...
A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
Amy H. Sturgis
Lectures
For the very first time, Shirley Jackson’s estate has authorized a book inspired by Shirley Jackson’s work. The 2023 novel A Haunting on the H...
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...
Creative Writing: Aristotle's Poetics for Story-Tellers
Julian Barr
Lectures
What makes a good story? How can we make our characters feel like real people?
Using a combination of recorded lectures, in-class discussion ...
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 Ancient Magic: Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern World
Shawn Gaffney
Lectures
This module examines the use of magic in the early Christian world, its relationship with contemporary magic, and related texts. We will explo...
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...
Introduction to Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Pilar Barrera
Lectures
Poignant, hilarious, ironic, sad, beautiful, Oscar Wilde’s literary fairy tales evoke vivid and intense imagery and discuss topics such as soc...
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...
Inventing King Arthur: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain
Liam Daley
Lectures
This course offers an in-depth look at the first complete “historical” narrative of the reign of King Arthur, Geoffrey’s Historia Regum Britan...