Course Description
J.R.R. Tolkien, hailed as “the author of the twentieth century,” retains profound influence in the twenty-first. His iconic works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, consistently rank among the bestselling books. This course invites students to analyze Tolkien’s essays, poems, and stories, tracing the origins of his imagined worlds and uncovering the great themes he wove throughout them. Students will study how Tolkien’s work is interpreted, engage in their own interpretations, and create an original imagined world invention to the creation of their own imagined world.