Ep. 049 - Forged in the Fire of War: The Life of J.R.R. Tolkien with Dr. Helen Freeh

from Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education · host Albertus Magnus Institute, Inc.

Times are tough? Good. Discover how a boy who lost both parents at a young age and fought the bloodiest war in history found a place in the canon of literary greatness. In this lecture for the Magnus Fellowship, Dr. Freeh tells the story of Tolkien that you have never heard. To support AMI, visit https://magnusinstitute.org/give/. Your donation is liberating the liberal arts and ransoming the captive of a broken college system.

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