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E 496 TOLKIEN

Schedule

We meet Fridays 11:30 to 12:30 in South College W365.

WEEK 16The Last Day

 

Friday 10 MayNO CLASS

  • Professor is at a conference

 

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FINAL PAPER. 15 to 20 pages. Choose a theme or motif that appears in two or more works and is important in some way to The Hobbit, LOTR, or The Silmarillion. List its salient appearances in those works. Muse on its larger implications for character and plot.

Useful: Stith-Thompson, Motif-Index of Folk Literature. DuBois GR67 .T47

 

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Academic Schedule

LINKS.

UMass Library
Google Books
Search Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Old English Newsletter Bib
Anglo-Saxon Bibliography

Germanic Lexicon Project
Bosworth-Toller (partial)
The Labyrinth
Medieval Sourcebook
Norse Saga Net
Anglo-Saxon Charters
Siever's Heliand
Bible (Douay-Rheims)
Dumézil, Norse Gods
Klaeber, Beowulf

Manuscripts of St. Gall

ISAS
Old English at UVa
Viking Ship Museum

 

Warning! Jingoistic anti-Roman revisionism, but nevertheless informative:

VIDEO: The Ancient Celts
VIDEO: The Goths
VIDEO: The Barbarian Tribes