“The Tolkien Professor” Presents Three Free Courses on The Lord of the Rings

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A quick update: Last year, we told you about Corey Olsen, an English Professor at Washington College, who started publishing online lectures on the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien. We initially featured his lecture series on The Hobbit. Now “The Tolkien Professor,” as Olsen is otherwise known, presents a series of online courses on The Lord of the Rings trilogy:

  • Lord of the Rings I: The Road Goes Ever OniTunesU
  • Lord of the Rings II: The Two TowersiTunesU – Web
  • Lord of the Rings III: Return of the King iTunes U – Web

As a bonus, you can access Olsen’s Undergraduate Survey Course on Tolkien (available on the web). The 14-week course was presented and recorded at Washington College in the Spring of 2010.

All of Olsen’s courses are catalogued in the Literature section of our collection of 825 Free Online Courses.

Related Content:

Listen to J.R.R. Tolkien Read a Lengthy Excerpt from The Hobbit (1952)

Listen to J.R.R. Tolkien Read Poems from The Fellowship of the Ring, in Elvish and English (1952)

Fantastic BBC Footage of J.R.R. Tolkien in 1968

Free Audio: Download the Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis


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