Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that examines Tolkien's awareness of medieval works such as "Beowulf", "The Battle of Maldon", "The Wanderer", "Old English Riddles", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", and the Finnish "Kalevala" in his scholarship and fiction, including "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and the "Silmarillion". Cross-list: MDEM 318.