Issue 78 : J.R.R. Tolkien & Lord of the Rings
Originally published in 2003
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Table of Contents
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Windows on the life and work of J.R.R. Tolkien
Chris Armstrong and Steven Gertz
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An American professor spent a summer with Tolkien. He remembers the man, his faith, and his writings.
Clyde S. Kilby
At odds with his age, he created another.
Bradley J. Birzer
Without philology, Middle-earth would never have exisited. But what is philology?
Tom Shippey
Tolkien joined these authors in countering the decadence of a dark century.
Joseph Pearce
How did Tolkien's approach to writing for a secularizing world compare with those of his Christian contemporaries?
David Mills
Catholicism anchored Tolkien's life and suffused his writings.
Thomas Howard
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The characters are mythic, but the epic sweeps across a Christian moral landscape.
Ralph C. Wood
Tolkien relished his weekly meetings with this club of remarkable friends.
Jennifer Lynn Woodruff
Tolkien and Lewis made an odd couple, but the contributed profoundly to each other's work.
Colin Duriez
His were small people surmounting impossible odds.
Humphrey Carpenter
Scores of authors have paid Tolkien the highest homage - imitation.
Aaron Belz
Like Bilbo discovering one dwarf after another at his door, Tolkien found himself, in the 1960s, hosting a growing American fan club.
Michael Foster
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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