The Book of Lost Tales, Part I
by Signum University
This course material is only available in the iTunes U app on iPhone or iPad.
Course Description
Have you ever wondered how J.R.R. Tolkien’s compelling and detailed fictional world developed? Would you like to study how stories and mythologies grow? Are you interested to read Tolkien’s early works published in The History of Middle-earth series, but you’ve been a little intimidated about beginning? Do you find that The Silmarillion just doesn’t contain enough names to suit you?
Join Corey Olsen, the Tolkien Professor and the president of the Mythgard Institute, for an in-depth nine-week study ofThe Book of Lost Tales, Part I, the first volume in Christopher Tolkien’s priceless History of Middle-earth series. As part of the Mythgard Academy series, the class is tuition-free and open to the public. The first 100 participants for each session are able to participate in the discussion live, and both video and audio recordings of the classes will be available on through this course, the Mythgard podcast feed and on our website.
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| 1 | The Book of Lost Tales, Part One | The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-17 when he was twenty-five years old and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for these tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or AElfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where elves dwelt; from him they learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In these Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmology of Middle-earth. Volume One contains the tales of The Music of the Ainur, The Building of valinor, The Chaining of Melko, The coming of the Elves and The Flight of the Noldoli, among others. Each tale is followed by a short essay by Christopher Tolkien, the author's son and literary executor. | -- | $9.99 | View in iTunes |
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BoLT1 Class 9 - Subcreation and Language | -- | 1:32:21 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | BoLT1 Class 9 - Subcreation and Language | -- | 1:32:22 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | bolt1_class_8.pptx | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
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Class 08 - The Spell of Bottomless Dread | -- | 2:03:36 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | Class 08 - The Spell of Bottomless Dread | -- | 2:03:37 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | Class 6 - The Misadventures of the Gods | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | Class 7 - In Contact with the Earth | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | Class 7 - In Contact with the Earth | -- | 1:55:42 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Class 7 - In Contact with the Earth | -- | 1:55:42 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | Class 6 – The Misadventures of the Gods | -- | 1:54:40 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Class 6 – The Misadventures of the Gods | -- | 1:54:40 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Class 4 – Q&A Session I | -- | 1:51:20 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | Class 5 – The Darkening of Hearts in Valinor | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
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Class 5 – The Darkening of Hearts in Valinor | -- | 1:42:11 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | Class 5 – The Darkening of Hearts in Valinor | -- | 1:42:12 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | Class 4 – Q&A Session 1 | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | Class 4 – Q&A Session I | -- | 1:51:21 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | Class 3 – The Choices of the Valar | -- | 1:46:25 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Class 3 – The Choices of the Valar | -- | 1:46:25 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | Class 3 – The Choices of the Valar | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | Class 2 – The Dawning of the Gods | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | Class 2 – The Dawning of the Gods | -- | 1:57:41 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Class 2 – The Dawning of the Gods | -- | 1:57:41 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | Class 1 – The Cottage of Lost Play | -- | -- | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | Class 1 – The Cottage of Lost Play | -- | 1:47:44 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Class 1 – The Cottage of Lost Play | -- | 1:47:44 | Free | View in iTunes |
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