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J.R.R. Tolkien: Did You Know?
Windows on the life and work of J.R.R. Tolkien
Chris Armstrong and Steven Gertz
J.R.R. Tolkien: From the Editor - He Gave Us Back Myth and with it, Truth
Chris Armstrong
Meeting Professor Tolkien
An American professor spent a summer with Tolkien. He remembers the man, his faith, and his writings.
Clyde S. Kilby
Tolkien: Man Behind the Myth
At odds with his age, he created another.
Bradley J. Birzer
A Feeling for Language
Without philology, Middle-earth would never have exisited. But what is philology?
Tom Shippey
The Christian Humanists
Tolkien joined these authors in countering the decadence of a dark century.
Joseph Pearce
One Truth, Many Tales
How did tolkien's approach to writing for a secularizing world compare with those of his Christian contemporaries?
David Mills
Sacramental Imagination
Catholicism anchored Tolkien's life and suffused his writings.
Thomas Howard
The Life and Times of J.R.R. Tolkien: Christian History Timeline
Good & Evil in Middle-earth
The characters are mythic, but the epic sweeps across a Christian moral landscape.
Ralph C. Wood
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Gallery - The Inklings
Tolkien relished his weekly meetings with this club of remarkable friends.
Jennifer Lynn Woodruff--Old Boys and Ivory Towers, Thomas Howard--The Key Inkling, Edwin Tait--The Medium is the Message
Tollers & Jack
Tolkien and Lewis made an odd couple, but the contributed profoundly to each other's work.
Colin Duriez
Hobbits & Englishmen
His were small people surmounting impossible odds.
Humphrey Carpenter
Father of Epic Fantasy
Scores of authors have paid Tolkien the highest homage - imitation.
Aaron Belz
An Unexpected Party
Like Bilbo discovering one dwarf after another at his door, Tolkien found himself, in the 1960s, hosting a growing American fan club.
Michael Foster
Understanding Tolkien: Recommended Resources
From light romps to profound reads, a bumper crop of books tells us more about the maker of Middle-earth.
Steven Gertz and Chris Armstrong
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