Resource Instruction

List of resources for undergraduate classes.

Eng 226 KING ARTHUR: FROM MYTH TO FICTION (3)
Exploration of the early historical and fictional sources for King Arthur with the goal of making sense of the modern
manifestations of Arthuriana. Students will read representative texts from Geoffrey of Monmouth (the first historian of Arthur)
to Tolkiens Lord of the Rings. This course will also focus on the new genre of Arthurian movies

Eng 234 Bible, Mythology, and Literature

In addition to selected books of the Bible and classical myths, students will explore the relation of the Bible and myth to works
of literature.

MagillOnLiteraturePlus
Database
This index provides articles and essays relating to individual works of literature and individual writers.
The critical analysis essays can prove incredibly useful in describing basic plots and other elements, as
well as giving further reading suggestions as far as more comprehensive treatments of the books they
analyze.
Literature Resource Center
Database
This index is a comprehensive database of articles and essays that relate not only to individual literary
works, but to literary movements and genres as well. The articles cover a wide range of viewpoints and
aspects of different literary works.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Database
This index contains articles, reviews and essays which provide an expansive array of information on
religion. Numerous articles can be found relating Christianity and other myths, whether ancient Greek
or Roman, medieval Arthurian, or modern Tolkien stories.
Fisher, M. (2012). The Encyclopedia of ARDA. Retrieved from http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/
Website/encyclopedia
This website is a thorough compilation of information about the world Tolkien created including maps,
words, names, places, and histories. The individual entries tend towards brevity, but the information
contained in each entry is pertinent including family trees (for characters) life span (or existence span),
and links to related entries.
University of Rochester. (2012). The Camelot Project. Retrieved from
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/
Website
This website provides not only preliminary information about nearly all the important figures from
Arthurian stories, but numerous books and other sources for the information found on the site as well as
places to find further information. A number of the original texts are provided on the site and each
character page has a link to the texts in which they are found. This website is updated regularly and
kept current by the students and staff at the University of Rochester.

Bible: King James Version. (1997). Retrieved from http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kjv/

Website
This website provides a number of different methods of searching one of the most popular versions of
the bible. A student can search for words or phrases, or words or phrases which occur in proximity to
one another, or traditional Boolean searches. They can also look for particular citations (by book,
chapter, and verse). The website was published and is maintained by the University of Michigan, and
due to its consistency, requires little updating to be very useful.
Found at www.IPL2.org
Roman, L., & Roman, M. (2010). Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology. Facts On File.
Encyclopedia
This source treats Greek and Roman mythology less as fundamental concepts distilled from numerous
translations and more as ancient literature, which provides a much more accessible form for relating it
to biblical stories and more modern literature. The entries for individual characters provide major
sources for each character as well as how some versions are different from others.
BookList, 08/01/2010

Rogers, S. D. (2011). A dictionary of made-up languages : from Adnaic to Elvish, Zaum to Klingon :
the anwa (real) origins of invented lexicons. Adams Media.
Dictionary
This resource provides translation for elvish phrases found in Tolkien's works as well as a way
to add flavor to papers and an example of the depth to which Tolkien developed his world. It provides
not only the dictionary, but also a brief discussion of grammar and the history of the language.
Sibley, B., & Howe, J. (2003). The maps of Tolkien's Middle-Earth. Houghton Mifflin.
Geographical source
This resource provides not only a geographical context for the journey in the fantastic trilogy,
but a more detailed examination of the names of major locations and the role of their names. The
concentration on place names gives this work an interesting focus not provided by a simple map.
Reference & Research Book News, 02/01/2004