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The works of J.R.R. Tolkien are quite possibly the most widely read pieces of books written in the 20th hundred years. But as Teacher Michael Drout illuminates in this participating course of lectures, Tolkien's writings are built after a centuries-old literary tradition that developed in Europe and it is quite uniquely Western in its prospect and style. Drout explores how that tradition still resonates around even today, even if many Modernist critics would dispute otherwise. He commences the course with the allegory of your tower - a device which Tolkien himself made in another of the most well-known academic works ever - as a way to illuminate how Tolkien's works continue and build after a tradition that goes back so far as Beowulf itself. Drout's lectures take us on the literary trip that explores Tolkien's most famous writings: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Bands, and The Silmarillion. As he brings these works life, he talks about Tolkien's technique and designs, which he shows reverberate completely back although Western literary tradition. In the long run, Drout shows us how J.R.R. Tolkien made literary worlds that the reader cares desperately about and needs to save lots of. Those worlds, in turn, are allegories for a Western literary tradition - a tower - that is worth preservation.
