UK college gives course decolonizing 'Lord of the Rings' writer Tolkien

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A college within the United Kingdom confronted backlash over resurfaced reviews a few course described as "decolonizing" the works of "Lord of the Rings" writer J.R.R. Tolkien.

The course, reportedly offered in 2024 by assistant professor Onyeka Nubia on the College of Nottingham, was titled "Imagining 'Britain': Decolonising Tolkien et al" and sought to look at "the myths and legends of the ‘British’ isles as written about by twentieth-century authors equivalent to J.R.R. Tolkien in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Hobbit,’ and ‘The Silmarillion,’ and by C.S. Lewis in ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ Collection."

One of many goals of the course was "to discover British mythology and, the place vital, decolonise and repopulate the narrative of British mythmaking."

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The College of Nottingham supplied a course titled "Imagining ‘Britain’: Decolonising Tolkien et al." (Mike Egerton/PA Photos by way of Getty Photos)

"College students can be inspired to decolonise these myths, re-interpreting some as fantasies and others as an exoticisation of indigenous and international ethnic teams, gendered politics, cultural and non secular otherness and historical, medieval and early fashionable notions of chromatics," the course description learn.

A similar course taught by Nubia was additionally listed for the 2025–26 educational 12 months, titled "Imagining Britain: Decolonising and Repopulating the Mythology of the British Isles." The newer model eliminated Tolkien’s title from the title however saved an analogous description, together with continued evaluation of the writer’s works.

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"Lord of the Rings" writer J.R.R. Tolkien was additionally flagged as probably problematic up to now. (Haywood Magee by way of Getty Photos)

In keeping with The Telegraph , the course consists of texts that accuse Tolkien’s work of "ethnic chauvinism" in opposition to orcs and different dark-skinned characters.

"It provides that Tolkien’s therapy of the fictional races shares in a convention of ‘anti-African antipathy,’ through which folks from Africa are painted as ‘the pure enemy of the white man,’" The Telegraph reported.

Nubia has reportedly argued "that japanese races within the fictional realm of Center Earth are depicted as evil whereas fairer-skinned peoples of the West are proven as virtuous."

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Texts associated to the College of Nottingham course reportedly accused Tolkien's work of "ethnic chauvinism." (New Line/WireImage/Getty Photos)

Fox News Digital reached out to the College of Nottingham and Nubia for remark however didn't instantly obtain responses.

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Tolkien’s work has come below hearth in recent times for allegedly being a favourite of "far-right" extremists. In 2023, a U.Okay. authorities anti-terrorism unit referred to as Stop’s Analysis Data and Communications Unit added Tolkien’s books to the record of potential triggers for right-wing extremism .

Lindsay Kornick is an affiliate editor for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas will be despatched to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.