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What Tolkien's Manuscripts Teach Us About Storytelling
From the Jesuits of Canada and the United States, this is AMDG – and I’m Eric Clayton. I was introduced to J.R.R. Tolkien in seventh grade. This was the project that the seventh grade class of St. Catherine of Sienna participated in each year—the whole school knew it. Students read “The Hobbit” and then were tasked with creating their own version of Smaug, the villainous dragon. You could make a diorama, a clay sculpture—whatever. But the goal was to allow the world of Tolkien’s Middle Earth to inspire in you a little bit of creativity. I hope that today’s conversation does much the same for…
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