Description
This course will focus on writings by J.R.R. Tolkien, exploring a number of themes: truth and fiction, the middle ages and modernity, mythology and theology. Tolkien himself was a multifaceted person: a soldier, a friend, a linguist, a translator, a professor, a husband, a father, and, of course, a writer. In all these roles, he nurtured a profound Christian faith. His writings possess an inner consistency and depth rooted in philology, ancient cosmology, and spiritual wisdom unmatched in the traditions of fantasy literature. This course will explore Tolkien’s dynamic perspectives on faith, fantasy, death, myth, language, culture, art, Nature, and, of course, dragons.