Approaches to teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and other works

Part One: Materials / Leslie A. Donovan

Tolkien in context

Editions

The instructor's library

Multimedia aids for teaching

Part Two: Approaches. Introduction: Seed of courage not so hidden / Leslie A. Donovan

Teaching the Controversies. The perils of the Tolkien course: reading the readings / Craig Franson

Teaching the critical debate over The Lord of the Rings / James McNelis

Tolkien's Other Works as Background. Eucatastrophe and the battle with the dark / Verlyn Flieger

Why teach The Silmarillion? Tolkien's mythology of the abject hero / Jane Chance

Child of the kindly west: innocence and experience in The Hobbit / Brian Walter

Using The History of Middle-earth with Tolkien's fiction / Yvette Kisor

Connections to the Past. Presenting Tolkien's pasts / Robin Chapman Stacey

Teaching the oral tradition in The Lord of the Rings / Leslie Stratyner

Becoming Tolkien: reading his Anglo-Saxon and Boethian sources / Liam Felsen

Tolkien as nation builder: teaching The Lord of The Rings in an epic literature class / Melissa Ridley Elmes

Conceptions of the pastoral in The Fellowship of the Ring / Philip Irving Mitchell

Modern and Contemporary Perspectives. Teaching Tolkien in the context of the fantasy tradition / Christopher Cobb

Tolkien and the modern: reading the canon through The Lord of the Rings / Sharin Schroeder

The tower, the sausage maker, and the soup: teaching Tolkien in a postmodern classroom / Thomas L. Martin

Teaching Tolkien and race: an inconvenient combination? / Dimitra Fimi

Women students and The Lord of the Rings: showing them where they fit in / Shelley Rees

Language, culture, environment, and diversity in The Lord of the Rings / Deidre Dawson

Interdisciplinary Contexts. Starting with the film: Jackson as a way back to Tolkien on heroism and evil / Christopher Crane

Tolkien and faith: an interdisciplinary approach / Nancy Enright

Melkor, moon letters, and Menelmacar: Middle-earth in the science classroom / Kristine Larsen

Tolkien and environmental sustainability in the science curriculum / Justin Edward Everett

Classroom Contexts and Strategies for Teaching. Tolkien in the first-year literature survey course / Anna Smol

Team-teaching Tolkien in a large lecture class: challenges and opportunities / Julia Simms Holderness

England's mythmaker? A Tolkien learning community / James R. Vitullo and Keith W. Jensen

"(T)hings that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be": teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings online / Judy Ann Ford and Robin Anne Reid

Morals and malice in Middle-earth / James Gould and Ted Hazelgrove

Tolkien immersion: why a three-week intensive course works / Cami D. Agan

The Council of Elrond, all those poems, and the famous f-ing elves: teaching the hard parts of Tolkien / Michael D.C. Drout

Fellowship and the rings: intellectual sociability and collaborative learning among Tolkien and the Inklings / Michael Tomko.