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A Conclusion to the Lay of Leithian

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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

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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

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Amy H. Sturgis

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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

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Jackson Mitchell-Bolton

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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

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Verlyn Flieger

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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

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Gabriel Schenk, Larry Swain

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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

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Julian Barr

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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

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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

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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

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Michael Drout

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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

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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

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Mary Dockray-Miller

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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

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Shawn Gaffney

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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

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Nelson Goering, Paul Peterson

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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

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Michael Drout

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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

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Carl Edlund Anderson

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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

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Pilar Barrera

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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

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Nelson Goering, Paul Peterson

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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...