Tolkien at Oxford
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J. R. R. Tolkien was a students and a professor at the University of Oxford. He taught medieval literature from his arrival in 1925 at Pembroke College and Merton College until his retirement in 1959. These podcasts explore the relationship between Tolkien and Oxford, the influence of medieval literature on his fiction, and analyses of some of his most famous works - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and .
We have created two teaching packs to support this:
- 'The Hobbit' Years 6 and up (slideset and teaching guide)
- 'The Silmarillion' Years 10 and up (slideset and teaching guide)
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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth | A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn… | Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi |
| 2 | Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues | Tom Shippey's lecture will move from the detail to the (eventual) design of Tolkien's languages,… | Tom Shippey |
| 3 | Middle English: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval languages | This lecture is on Tolkien and middle english. Professor Carolyne Larrington, Tutorial Fellow in… | Carolyne Larrington |
| 4 | Medieval Welsh: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval Languages | Tolkien once termed Welsh 'the elder language of the men of Britain'; this talk explores how the… | Mark Williams |
| 5 | Gothic: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval Languages | Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he… | Elizabeth Solopova |
| 6 | Old English: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval Languages: | Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in… | Mark Atherton |
| 7 | Old Norse: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval Languages | Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth… | Eleanor Parker |
| 8 | What is the 'Silmarillion'? | This lecture is an introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien's third major work, 'The Silmarillion' (1977),… | Grace Khuri |
| 9 | The Stories of Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Stuart Lee and Margaret Kean explore the digital afterlives of these… | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Stuart Lee, Margaret Kean |