Tolkien Fans – a great new experience
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Our household is chock full of Tolkien fans. We’ve enjoyed the basics, ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Some have read ‘The Silmarillion’. And my oldest dove deep and has read ‘The History of Middle Earth’ volumes 1-12, and every other work of Tolkien he can get his hands on.
So a couple years ago when The Tolkien Professor started his podcasts (free on iTunes) we subscribed. I was actually the latest to climb aboard the Tolkien train, having not enjoyed it as a boy. But through listening to the Tolkien Professor, I have come to really appreciate and enjoy Tolkien immensely.
All that is a pre-cursor to the Tolkien Professor’s recent announcement about the launch of the Mythgard Institute. It is an online institute that will offer courses with two paths: people who wish to pursue an MA, and people who just want to audit the course.
The first course this fall is The Great Tales: Tolkien and the Epic and we’ve signed up as a family to take the course.
If you are a Tolkien fan, check out the Mythgard Institute.