The World of JRR Tolkein is a series of 8 lectures on Tolkein. Rather than just the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit and the Silmarillion were also covered, with various references to Tolkien's life and the history of his creation of the languages. One interesting titbit that I learned from the lecture series that I didn't learn elsewhere was that Tolkien intentionally tried to create a mythology of England, since unlike the other countries comprising the United Kingdom, he didn't feel that England had its own mythology.
The lecture series goes deeply into languages, gender, and race, but skimps quite a bit on Tolkien's work on Beowulf, and doesn't get into his relationship with his children at all. I bought it on sale, and it was quite short. I don't feel that it's nearly as good as Tolkein and the West, which I think is a much deeper lecture series.
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