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Tolkien Beast 3 Letters – I first read The Lord of the Rings when I was eleven. My mom gave me the box set (see above) for Christmas and I read all four books in one trip to my grandparents’ house at New Year’s. Imagine my 11-year-old self wrestling the hobbits across Middle-earth as my mother drove us across the middle of America from Kentucky to Texas (and back again), and you’ll get some sense of the effect it had on me.

Of all the things that drew me to become a medieval historian, reading (and re-reading, and re-reading, and re-reading) Tolkien tops the list, though it took me decades to admit it. Tolkien lived in my imagination somewhere between the stories I remembered reading as a child and my first (magical) visit to England on a field trip in high school—not real, certainly not the stuff of serious scholarship.

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And then Peter Jackson came out with his films and a friend suggested doing a course on Tolkien for undergraduates at the University of Chicago. Just, you know, as a way to get them interested in medieval history. My friend went on to write a historical novel based on exercises we did with our students in Subcreation with Tolkien. I have taught the course every three years since.*

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To prepare for the course, I spent a year reading Christopher Tolkien’s 12-volume edition of his father’s draft—the scribbles and changes that never made it to print. I immersed myself in Tolkien scholarship, fangirling Verlyn Flieger and Tom Shippey at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, and kicking myself for not taking Jane Chance’s Tolkien course when I was an undergraduate at Rice.**

Over the years, like Jane’s, my course became wildly popular, sometimes attracting over 100 students a quarter (a lot for a Chicago course). Each year, students were invited to “make still with songs” that Tolkien had made in—stories and poems and music and drama inspired by his own desire to “make a body of more or less connected legends” that he could dedicate “to England .”*** In 2011, I set up a blog for students to post their thoughts on the discussions we had in class. The blog (Tolkien: Medieval and Modern) now contains essays from four years of conversations, listed by theme as well as by year. Last spring the class met on Zoom – which meant we could record our discussions as videos – but unfortunately I can’t link them here.

Want to know more about Tolkien, his love of languages ​​and history, and how he came to write The Lord of the Rings? I am very pleased to announce a new series of videos that I have been invited to do for Unauthorized.tv, called The Forge of Tolkien. My plan is to record one episode a week. The list of episodes will be updated as new episodes are recorded and aired.

Come, journey with me across Middle-earth! I promise to take you there—and back again! Each episode should stand alone as an exploration of a particular theme, but the series as a whole will follow the general cycle of the course I’ve been teaching at the University of Chicago, taking seriously Tolkien’s invitation to prepare and exploring the roots of this invitation. in his understanding of our own creation as sub-creators in the image and likeness of God.

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You need the passcode to access the videos, not just the password you create when you subscribe. NB, for long time subscribers: UATV now has a better subscription portal, but you need to login through the new portal to access the videos. Look at the top right of the opening screen for instructions. Details of the update on the Vox Day blog.

Episodes filmed so far (updated November 6, 2021): 1. “I wonder what kind of story we’ve fallen into?”

How many of you read Tolkien’s stories and wished you could find yourself in the story? Professor Rachel Fulton Brown introduces her new series, The Forge of Tolkien, with a reflection on Tolkien’s wordsmithing as an invitation to participate in the greatest fairy tale ever told. — Premiered July 29, 2020

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power’ Review: Swaggering New Epic Assures That Tolkien Is In Safe Hands

What did Tolkien mean when he told Milton Waldman that he wanted to write “a series of more or less related legends” that he could dedicate to “England,” sketching it in part, while leaving “room for other minds and hands, with paint” and music and drama”? In this episode, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown talks about Tolkien’s understanding of mythology and its connection to the land, as well as what it means to accept his invitation to participate in this epic, and why fan writing is a fundamentally Christian practice. fiction within Tolkien’s Legendarium. — Premiered August 6, 2020

Are myths true? In this episode, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown reads Tolkien’s poem “Mythopoeia” which riddles the relationship between poetry, sub-creation and the reality of myth. We examine the poem’s structure and language for clues to how Tolkien persuaded his friend Jack Lewis to read myths not as “lies,” but as invitations to prepare the image and likeness in which human beings are made. — Premiered August 11, 2020

Enigma or allegory? Unimportant or indispensable? Tom Bombadil is a master—but what does that mean for the hobbits and their adventures? Professor Rachel Fulton Brown traces Tom Bombadil to his origins in story and song. — Premiered August 18, 2020

Critics from Edmund Wilson (The Nation, 1956) to Andrew Rissik (The Guardian, 2000) and Richard Eyre (The Guardian, 2004) have described The Lord of the Rings as “essentially a children’s book”, a monument to Tolkien’s kitsch and impotence. to face the real problems of today’s adults. In this episode, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown highlights critics’ insistence that Tolkien was writing for children – or childish readers – and Tolkien’s own insistence that he was writing for adults, not children at all. What was at stake for Tolkien when he wrote fairy tales “for children” – and did it have any influence on his “deep loathing” of Disney? — Premiered August 26, 2020

Showing Us Our Humanity: Juhea Kim’s Beasts Of A Little Land

When is a dragon “enough” and when is it an example of “draconitas”? In this episode, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown explores the “wilderness of dragons” that Tolkien invented for his children’s stories, including The Hobbit, and contrasts them with his arguments for taking dragons seriously in his essay “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics. ” How is Smaug like and different from Beowulf’s bane? And how many dragons are there in a “desert”? — Premiered September 2, 2020

Tolkien and his friend C.S. The Lewises were frustrated that no one was writing the kind of stories they liked to read: Lewis agreed to write a space travel story, and Tolkien agreed to write a time travel story. Lewis went on to write – and publish – his space trilogy, but Tolkien got lost wandering The Lost Road with a Bliss friend and an Elf friend. In this episode, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown reads the first chapter of what was supposed to be Tolkien’s time travel story for what it tells us about Tolkien’s autobiography as an author. — Premiered September 9, 2020

What kind of framework would be needed to write a compelling time travel story? What if you were a scholar and wanted to travel back in time? What if your friend had written a space story and you found the frame unconvincing? In this episode, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown presents The Notion Club Papers, Tolkien’s second attempt at writing a time travel story, and reads them for what we can learn about Tolkien’s own desire to travel back in time. Continuation! — Premiered September 15, 2020

Are you the kind of Tolkien fan who reads the Lord of the Rings appendices and is still hungry for more? What if you had an appendix for Tolkien’s life? In this episode, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown takes a tour of the 3-volume J.R.R. Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Tolkien Companion and Guide (2017), deep dive into chronology, genealogy, bibliography and guide. What is the difference between knowledge and knowledge? How does knowing what Tolkien did on September 7, 1955 help us understand his creative work? And what does “Ae Adar Nín” mean in Sindarin? — Premiere September 23, 2020 10. Falling Wide Sleeping

Tolkien, Race, And The Critics: Debating Racism In Middle Earth

What did Frodo mean when he said that returning to the realm at the end of the hobbits’ journey through Middle-earth was “like falling asleep again”? What journey had the hobbits been on? In this episode, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown reads Night 61 of The Notion Club Papers, by Ramer as he describes his experiments with time travel – and dreams. Ramer’s exercises have been shown to bear an uncanny resemblance to T.S. Eliot’s plea for time in