recorded on May 12, 2025.For more information about Signum Studios and Signum Collaboratory, visit

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and SignumU Twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/signumu

Check the schedule here. https://www.twitch.tv/signumu/schedule

For more information https://mythgard.org/miscellany/

You can watch or listen to the recordings here.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLasMbZ4s5vIV0nHc_Ji8CLs1C-a6iuXMY

https://tolkienprof.fireside.fm/subscribeHosts:

Dr. Corey Olsen the Tolkien Professor

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Dr. Maggie Parke

https://signumuniversity.org/directory/maggie-parke/Join us on the Signum University Discord server: https://discord.gg/szXMFAvFollow our Twitter accounts for updates:

Corey Olsen, Tolkien Professor https://twitter.com/tolkienprof

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Corey and Maggie's weekly analysis of Prime Video's epic adaptation of Tolkien’s mythos. Presented by Signum University and Studio Lab.

audio-only version recordings (podcast) https://ringsandrealms.fireside.fm/Want to dive deeper into Tolkien's world?

Corey is offering several free and open weekly and biweekly programs on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and other topics at Mythgard Institute. https://mythgard.org/

You can check the live schedule here. https://www.twitch.tv/signumu/schedule

More about the individual programs

Exploring the Lord of the Rings: a sentence-by-sentence journey through the text of Tolkien's epic fairy story (and Stephen Colbert's favorite https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/03/magazine/stephen-colbert-politics-religion.html ) https://mythgard.org/lotro/exlotr/

Mythgard Academy: in-depth seminars on fantasy, science fiction, and other speculative works https://mythgard.org/academy/

The Silmarillion Film Project/SilmFilm: a completely hypothetical discussion about what J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion would look like as a TV series https://mythgard.org/silmfilm/

Those recordings can be found on this Signum University Youtube channel as well as on our podcasts.

https://mythgard.org/listen/

Other Minds and Hands and SilmFilm recordings are on the Tolkien Professor podcast.For those who feel reading the Silmarillion for the first time is a bit daunting.

https://tolkienprofessor.com/lectures/courses/silmarillion-seminar/Corey walks you through The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and even the volumes of History of Middle-earth series on his Mythgard Academy series.

https://mythgard.org/academy/And here are more links if you dare.

https://tolkienprofessor.com/lectures/courses/the-undergraduate-tolkien-survey/

https://tolkienprofessor.com/lectures/courses/faerie-and-fantasy/

https://tolkienprofessor.com/lectures/courses/Want more fan/fun gatherings? Check our news and events page for moots (in-person and virtual) and online events. https://signumuniversity.org/news-and-events/We also provide affordable higher education and fun, engaging learning (Tolkien Studies, Imaginative Literature, Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature, and Germanic Philology) at Signum University. https://signumuniversity.org/

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