Video from Jonathan Pageau
Tolkien and Universal History - with Richard Rohlin
"In this episode Richard Rohlin goes solo to give us an introduction to JRR Tolkien's vision for Universal History. Later this month he will be teaching a course on this topic.
=====Timestamps==== 01:07 - Introduction 03:36 - What makes Tolkien unique? 07:53 - Tolkien & universal history 12:28 - The Arthurian legends 22:13 - Redeeming the elves 26:45 - Redeeming the gods 27:40 - Medieval genres: Chronicles 29:35 - Poetry 31:17 - The Silmarillion 34:10 - Retelling culture-founding narratives 36:09 - The Lord of the Rings 38:44 - The novel 42:16 - Writing assignment" from the video introduction
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