Professor Rachel Fulton Brown takes you on a journey through the creation of JRR Tolkien’s legendarium, from its origins in Tolkien’s conversations with C.S. Lewis about the power of myth to its realization in the stories of the Silmarillion. Extended version of the course that she teaches at the University of Chicago.
Episode guide: https://fencingbearatprayer.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-forge-of-tolkien.html
Syllabus and course blog: http://tolkienmedievalandmodern.blogspot.com/
Dr. Rachel Fulton Brown is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where she teaches courses on the history of Christianity, medieval European religious, cultural, and intellectual history, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. She blogs as Fencing Bear at Prayer, and she lectures on Logos, Tolkien, and medieval history at UATV. The Dragon Common Room is her online classroom for training poets in the arts of the Christian imagination. She and co-creators KJ Crilly, Kilts Khalfan, and Mel Wiggin host the Mosaic Ark on her UATV Logos and History channel.
Website: https://www.dragoncommonroom.com
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“Lor bless me, sir, but I do love tales of that sort. And I do believe them, too, whatever Ted may say. Dogs, sir! I would dearly love to see them.” Oh, wait, I misquoted, Sam never said that—but does it not disappoint that there are not more dogs in The Lord of the Rings?! There are Farmer Maggot’s three guard dogs—Grip, Fang, and Wolf—but otherwise the hobbits’ adventure is a great desert of dogs. No canines to be seen, unless you count Wargs. And yet, it could be argued that without dogs there would have been no Hobbit and no Lord of the Rings. In this episode, recorded in honor of her new dog Drake, Professor Rachel Fulton Brown digs deep into Tolkien’s backstory to discover where he hid the dogs and what they have to do with Sauron—and dragons.