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.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 116 minutes
- Episodes
- 476
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 4
The Beginnings, For Real
Week 4: Good news, upcoming events, and a winner! Then we check The Professor's math and redefine an elven year. The march of time catches the Valar looking in the wrong dire…
MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 3
Growth and Change
Week 3: We start with a dice roll for the fundraiser appreciation drawing, and then jump right in to the math. How long was elven gestation? And how long did it take for an elven fa…
MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 2
Love and Time among the Eldar
Week 2: Fall Fundraising update: weekly appreciation drawings at every class until the webinar!
Tonight we wonder if invisible elves are still out there. And how old is…
MSA030: The Nature of Middle-Earth, Class 1
Week 1: Lofty Goals, and worthy news, and an auspicious date (mark it well, Saturday, October 16, 2021, Signum Webathon!) precede our inaugural dive into this new book.
In the late 1950s, JRRT rework…
MSA029: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Class 1
Welcome to Luna, here is your narrator, Mannie, a free born, old cobber with one arm who’s not on Authority’s payroll. Look him up and down. He comes from complicated Loonie heritage, belongs to a li…
MSA028: Inferno, Class 24
Week 24: And so we finish our tour of Hell and arrive at the crux of the world where we find Dante has been affected deeply by his travels at all three levels of his allegorical structure, and where …
MSA028: Inferno, Class 23
Week 23: Where Dante succumbs to the lure of base arguments and wishes he was merely in a dream. And where a bugle blast messes with Dante’s vision, and towers become giants, and not nice ones either…
MSA028: Inferno, Class 22
In which we complete our tour of the Malebolge with a rather crowded tenth pouch
MSA028: Inferno, Class 21
In which we meet people with various kinds of bodily integrity issues.