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View ArticleDimitra Fimi: Celtic Myth in Children's Fantasy
Here's a great place to post thoughts about Dr. Fimi's Faculty Chat on October 16th - Who is really familiar with the books? What else should we know about them? How does Dr. Fimi's insight deepen the...
View ArticleJonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Fan videos
I wanted to share some videos that people put together, based on the BBC version of the story. Some are just silly, and others are homemade music videos that kinda fit the story. I thought people might...
View ArticleElf Meter Common?
Just finished the Shaping of Middle Earth series on the podcast feed. A thought struck me in the "Horns of Ylmir" discussion. (Love that poem!) Corey said something about "Elf meter" (iambic...
View ArticleDracula Class 2 Octagonal Observation
There was some discussion of Harker's octagonal room in Dracula's castle. But no significance was found during the discussion. This could be helpful... Catholic baptismal fonts are traditionally...
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How to pronounce "Magyarország"
(This is actually for the current course on Sauron Defeated but we don't have a sub-forum for that…if someone could oblige I'd be much obliged ) You can find a recording of this word on Wikimedia...
View ArticleDracula and Kids' Culture
After power-binging through the Dracula class recently, I continued to be blown away by the analysis. The concept of Vampires being a "perversion" of Holy/Sacred things is just fascinating to me. Being...
View ArticleA Wizard of Earthsea
I am so pleased to hear that the next Mythgard book is "A Wizard of Earthsea". For those of you who haven't read it, you're in for a treat.
View ArticleWizard of Earthsea possible reference?
When Ged first sees Serret in the Court of the Terranon, he compares her to the Lady of O, who, "had been like a slight, bright candle-flame, but this woman was like the white new moon." This reminded...
View ArticleModern Readers
Professor, have you ever published your opinion about modern readers and the way they look for people who look like them in order to relate to the work they are reading? You've talked about it several...
View ArticleNew Dracula Kickstarter Project
I just signed up for the hardcover book, but thought i'd share: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beehivebooks/dracula-the-evidence-hardcover-edition?ref=user_menu
View ArticleWheel of Time (TV/book)
The images I've seen for the WoT series seem really good, so I started reading the first one. So far, it feels very much in the style of the early Fellowship of the Rings; a flight from a homely...
View ArticleAlice - cultural connections
Hey all, Excited to start Alice this evening and wondering if there's any chance we'll get past the preface poem. Anyway, I was thinking about the class and wondering if we'd discuss a movie...
View ArticleTolkien, Wonderland, and chronology
I was thinking today about J. R. R. Tolkien reading Alice in Wonderland as a child (which we know he did because he makes more than one reference to it in the essay "On Fairy Stories," e.g., "I had no...
View ArticleAlice - All in the Golden Afternoon
Hi all, I was reading a little about the opening poem (well, okay, I read the Wikipedia page) and I thought this was interesting. I know Corey's method is to focus on the words on the page and not...
View ArticleAlice - Jabberwocky
Hey all, I was looking on YouTube for musical adaptations of Jabberwocky (my favorite was this by Donovan), but also found a bunch of dramatic readings, including Benedict Cumberbach, Christopher Lee,...
View ArticleTill We Have Faces - Ugliness
I'm a little behind in listening, but the whole issue of whether Psyche's husband is ugly as a reason for hiding in darkness seems spectacularly silly. If anyone would love an ugly person, it would be...
View ArticleTill We Have Faces - echoes of other works
Hi all, As we've been reading through Faces together, I've seen a lot of echoes of other works, either earlier works that may or may not have influenced Lewis, later works that may or may not have been...
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