This class runs for one week for about 45-90 minutes a day.
It first ran last week but can be completed anytime.
The textbook for this class, if printed, would apparently be 48 pages, 16 for the first two essay, 12 for the taylor essay, and then the title page and back cover.
Read the essay "On Faerie Stories."that's all you have to do.
(note:for the chill wizzy illustration try some other upload such as vdocuments.net)
Isn't that easy? Who wouldn't want to find out more about the angelic history-- their country, their culture, even their wars with ole beelzebubby? Never a dull moment, that's for sure!
Day two, August 23rd, read, Smith of Wooten Major.
If you want to think about baking a cake with a star in it, be our guest. Or, maybe we should be your guest. AJJAJAJAJJAJAJJ
Today is the feast of Bartholomew (NataneL)for Crhistians, and since Tolkien was a very pious Catholic it's good to be aware of his faith to understand his literature. Culture is key here.
a good example of the importance of angels to Christians i every way.
Chec, the readings for the city of God and for angels both descending from heaven.
READ THE PAPER FROM TAYLOR.EDU "INKLINGS FOREVER", which situates Tolkien in the intellectual debate about faerie, and quite frankly, about God, reality and everything.
Today is Thursday the day of The Engelbrott, which Tolkien knew well.
read the poem "errantry". Is the mariner Smith ie Tolkien? Is his "studying smithying" to trap the butterfly into staying with him, another way of smith trying to convince the fairy queen to allow him to live in Paradise before he has earned it? Or is it just about domestic bickering--or both? discuss.
ALBINO LUCIANI THE "WHITE LIGHT" IS ELECTED POPE.for some reason its hard not to grin when thinking of him.He was the one who wrote catechism in.crumbs" could there be a better title for theology of engelbrotts? plus, rumor had it he was wacked for firing the Mafia, (see Blackfriars bridge murders) which according to this same rumor, is why wojytla and Ratzinger were so quiet about it-- of course, this is merely a rumor but then again...
Today is Friday the day on which the Engelbrott was legally given the death penalty. Just saying we should always question mandatory minimums, or Jacobia could be a lifer for a snicker bar. (SMDH)
DISCUSSION: DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING--there is no "right" or wrong answerexcept, gelato is always right. kdding. Jeus is alwasy right, if you are Christian. But you can negotiate with him as far as billions. Kidding. Anyway, Jesus said "do you believe because I saw you under the fig tree? You will see the sky opened and the angels ascending and descending on the on of Man."
while primitive tribes may have associated that beatific vision with gelato skies since htey were perpetually hungry,
The angel's announcement to Zacariah was thus met with disbelief: Engelkuchen? Have you got a screw loose? (yells in Bermie, and is summarily shut up by the irritated angel who then goes to talk to the Virgin Mary somebody who actually takes angels seriously, as in "beato te chi hai creduto" and/or "beato te che non sei scandalizzato."
The angel of Christianity "gets" the incredulity.
The 20th century was perpetually Freudian and Marxian, believing dialectic materialism, sex, drugs or consumerism was the way out of exile back to Paradise. Thus it belittled faerie and dismissed it as "all in your mind." have you ever been to faerie, or spoken with angels? What is the best way to do this? Is there a "road to faerie" or just hallucinogenic drugs that make you think there is?
Take the quizzy by clicking on the quizzy button in the main heading. Practice here: TRUE OR FALSE. Billy Bragg was sued by tolkien who claimed the original lyrics were "i'm not trying to enchant the world, Im not looking for Eden in England, I just want the faerie queen to be my girl." Bragg thus further exploited the as yet woebegone and impoverished tolkien who was living in a garden shed on the campus of Oxford, while his wife, frustrated at the lack of running water and sick of eaing stale cake from "nokes' C lister bakeria,, ran off with the gardener.