Teaching Tolkien

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I wasn't sure where to put this... but for lack of a better place...

It's finally happened. I opened my mouth (manditorily) one to many times, and now I need help. To explain:

My school has a Trilogy Class. We read and examine the Lord of the Rings chapter by chapter, do individual projects and whatnot. The only thing the class seems to NOT do is read The Appendices, so I'm just about the only one who knows anything in them. My teachers (regular and student-teacher) have decided that, because of my "extensive knowledge", I apparently need to teach an Appendix Mini-lesson each class. So I decided to come straight to the experts for advice.

I'm only 16!!! I have very little knowledge in teaching... well, more than most of my peers, but this class, while consisting of Tolkienites, is NOT interested in the Appendices. I need lesson ideas, and ways to make some of this stuff interesting to them. For all that I don't think I'll have a problem teaching the story of Aragorn and Arwen, I don't think they'll like some of the language and timeline stuff. So my question for y'all is this: Will you help me plan lessons and give ideas to teach a group of 13 (plus two teachers) between the ages of 14 and 18 what's in the Appendices of RotK? I'd be very much in your debt...

Fea