Dr Dimitra Fimi teaches and researches Tolkien’s fiction at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. “Exploring Tolkien: There and Back Again”, it is taught exclusively online in 10 weekly units and can be taken by students and adult learners all over the world. It is a revised and expanded version of her earlier course “The
Foundations of Middle-earth: Myth, Language and Ideology in J. R .R. Tolkien’s Literature” (which ran in the academic year 2005-2006). The course has already run once this academic year, and will run on two more occasions, starting on 12 February 2007 and 23 April 2007 respectively. Enrolments are now open for both
courses.
More detailed information about the course can be found on this website here.
Some Frequently Asked Questions about the course are answered:
here.
The course covers a great range of topics on Tolkien’s sources in myth and
contemporary intellectual history. A detailed overview of the 10 Units of the
course can be found: here.
One response to “Online Tolkien course”
Oh, GRR. Why is it that I never have the money for these things??? *sobs* Will there ever be a FREE online Tolkien course I could take?
Ari