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LOTR class

: caitlin_chan; January 8th, 2009

spot on the path:: AC04B, Antigonish, NS

light, shadow, or in between:: excited

sounds on the path:: Fisherman's Son - The Rankin Family

This semester I'm in a class about Lord of the Rings. Yes, in university, and yes, it's already awesome.

Anyways, I'm recording the lectures for a few friends already so I figured I'd see if anyone on my LJ would be interested in them? If people are, I can post the links to download the sound files here.

Yes/no?

Also, on the subject of Christmas cards, well, I kinda failed. I had exams and I planned to do it afte rthey finished, but then Joy died and I just forgot with everything that was going on. I'm sorry.

Tags: christmas, fandom, lotr, lotr class, university

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atom0001

2009-01-08 05:05 pm (UTC)

Ooh. A Lit class, right? How is it so far?

caitlin_chan

2009-01-08 05:22 pm (UTC)

Yep, an English class. And so far, though I've only had one class of it (Tuesday, my next is in a little under an hour) it was good. I am sure it will be freaking AWESOME.

Edited at 2009-01-08 05:22 pm (UTC)

atom0001

2009-01-08 05:27 pm (UTC)

What have you discussed so far?

caitlin_chan

2009-01-08 05:30 pm (UTC)

The course outline, marking/attendance-type stuff, that sort of thing, and then how one goes about studying LOTR in a university setting and what some of the problems are. It was the intro class, being the first one and all, so we didn't get to talk about much.

atom0001

2009-01-08 05:33 pm (UTC)

How does one go about studying LOTR in a university setting?

caitlin_chan

2009-01-08 05:45 pm (UTC)

Well, you actually look at it like any other serious piece of literature - it's just that it's only recently that academia started considering it 'worthy' to be studied as serious literature. Because it's fantasy, for a long time academia didn't consider it serious or worthy of study.

atom0001

2009-01-08 05:50 pm (UTC)

Is there an entire semester's worth analysis? You've read the books?

caitlin_chan

2009-01-08 08:06 pm (UTC)

There is absolutely an entire semester's worth of analysis in those books. I think one could expand the class to be a full-year class without even having to add much, if any, additional material to read.

And I have read the books, yes; multiple times through, even.

catholic_chic

2009-01-08 10:03 pm (UTC)

Link to the audio? Definitely. I LOVE Lord of the Rings.

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