Mythgard Academy
Hosted by Mythgard Academy · Mythgard Institute
4.8from 144 ratings
- 508
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 144
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2012
- First episode
About Mythgard Academy
Mythgard Academy aims to make engaging discussions of fantasy and science fiction literature free and open to everyone. The Mythgard Academy program features live discussions with Dr. Corey Olsen, The Tolkien Professor, and other experts on speculative fiction. Books are nominated and voted on by our supporters, and recordings are available for free via podcast and the Signum University YouTube channel.
- Publisher
- Mythgard Institute
- Category
- arts · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Jul 2012
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 508 episodes have a transcript.
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MSA036: Phantastes, Session 8
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Splintered Light was a book that she wrote ages ago, which is still a really, really important book. Um, but she's, she's done a great deal of editing too. She, um, has edited Colervo and a scholarly edition of Smith of Wooten Major and on fairy stories and a whole, whole bunch of things. She is just, she's done, um, great work. Uh, curious chances. Uh, she's the greatest Tolkien scholar if, if you ask him. Yeah. I mean, it's, she is surely, um, surely, I mean, By anyone's calculation, she is like, you know, top two or three all time. Tom Shippey and Verlin Flieger are, for me, like at the sort of the head of the pantheon of Tolkien scholars. […]
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- 4.9 / 5
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