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An Epic Education: Tolkien in The Heights Curriculum


This week on HeightsCast, we listen to an excerpt from Tom Cox’s Heights Lecture on the virtues exhibited by Samwise Gamgee from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and how the study of this stouthearted hobbit is important in the formation of a middle school student.

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Tom Cox

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Tom Cox teaches Latin and Greek in the Upper School at The Heights, where he has taught since 2009. Having earned his B.A. in Classics at Hillsdale, he completed a Master’s Degree in 2019 in the Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD.

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