Tolkien Prof makes the Washington Post
While it mentions LOTRO once, this piece in the Washington Post isn’t MMO-centric, but rather honors an internet celebrity who’s doing a lot of good for the works of Tolkien these days. Many LOTRO players are fans of the so-called Tolkien Professor, a teacher and podcaster named Corey Olsen. I’m a fan myself, and have enjoyed his straight-forward and illuminating podcasts that have really opened up Middle-earth for me. Olsen is part of the intellectual geek movement that’s making people take notice of the fact that we can spawn some pretty smart cookies who also like scifi, fantasy, comic books and other geek activities.
Olsen the professor finds himself in much the same spot as Tolkien the author: beloved by the public, yet not entirely accepted by the intelligencia.
“I get the fact that some people don’t believe that what I’m doing counts as scholarship,” he said.
- Posted in: Lord of the Rings Online
