How Should We Read Tolkien?
A new book considers a postmodern Tolkien, but it circles back to the obvious and enduring: love and friendship.
A new book considers a postmodern Tolkien, but it circles back to the obvious and enduring: love and friendship.
Tolkien can teach the English a lot about how to make their country their home again.
The hero must absorb the monster’s magical power so that he can defeat other great monsters.
Tolkien’s work contains vast symbols of the cosmic conflict between good and evil.
Tolkien’s tale reminds us that we ourselves are part of the Great Story.
The Inklings expressed interest in ancient mythologies that described the creation of the world through music.
Aragorn, for so long the wandering heir, wins at last and begins the restoration of a world wrecked by evil.
Tolkien shows us the similarity between machinery and magic, which both point to the desire for power.
Marked by historical events of such magnitude as the two world wars, Tolkien and other Christian intellectuals of his day grappled with profound questions about the fate of the world.
The greatest Catholic writers of the 20th century drew on the deep riches of the liturgy to speak to the secular age.
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