Summer School

Summer is approaching, and it's time to improve your mind outside the grind of the academic year. Let these fine scholars guide you through your extracurricular reading:

Literacy-chic has been meditating on Notable Moments in Tolkien.

• "No oath or bond is laid...": A Notable Moment from Fellowship of the Ring (which contains her explanation of her Notable Moments focus)
• Language and Race, Nostalgia and Place - Stopping in Hollin/Eregion: A Notable Moment
• Tolkien and Nuance: Dwarf as 'Other' in Rohan

Brandon is going to be reading through the Platonic dialogues over the summer, and starts things off with some thoughts on various methods of grouping them.

Sarah Emsley is hosting a half-year series on Manfield Park in honor of the 200th anniversary of its publication. The first two posts are already up.

• Clarity and Complexity: Mansfield Park Begins
• Adopting Affection