Students in this course read and discussed The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion and investigated a selection of Tolkien’s sources as well as Tolkien’s own theories of the “Fairy-Story” (as he called Fantasy). The course also examined the author’s legacy as reflected in the first volume of George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire.

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Past Sessions

• Session 8: "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun Part One"
• Session 7: "Morris’s Saga of the Volsungs Part Four"
• Session 6: "Morris’s Saga of the Volsungs Part Three"
• Session 4: "Morris’s Saga of the Volsungs Part One"
• Session 3: "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son"
• Session 2: "Giles of Ham"
• Session 1: "On Fairy Stories"

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