Jonathan Thorndike of Belmont University and his students in the Honors Program discuss the Peter Jackson adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Jonathan Thorndike is the Honors Program Director at Belmont University. He teaches interdisciplinary “Great Books” courses and taught an Inklings course at King’s College London for many summers. He was awarded the Presidential Faculty Achievement Award at Belmont in 2014. Thorndike has published two books and over 50 essays on Japanese and British literature.