Christian History Magazine—Issue 78: J.R.R. Tolkien & Lord of the Rings
Overview
Explore the world of J.R.R. Tolkien—a Christian author in a modern time and place shadowed by war. Learn how his work is a response to the condition of his times, and how the great novelist developed creatively through his interaction with his children—at times his only audience.
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Top Highlights
“Nietzsche’s Superman is cold and friendless,’ Chesterton wrote in Heretics. ‘And when Nietzsche says, ‘A New commandment I give to you, be hard,’ he is really saying, ‘A new commandment I give to you, be dead.’ Sensibility is the definition of life.’” (source)
“Wraiths’ are creatures, then, who have been ‘writhen,’ or ‘bent,’ out of their natural and original shape—for as Elrond says, ‘nothing is evil in the beginning.’” (source)
“his good friend C. S. Lewis had long before agreed to do narratives dealing with” (source)
“Frodo and his companions constitute a radical community of the Good” (source)
“He was moved by the degradation of the birth of Christ in a stable with its filth and manure and saw it as a symbol of the real nature of holy things in a fallen world.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 78: J.R.R. Tolkien & Lord of the Rings
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: England › 19th-20th centuries--Literature; Tolkien, J. R. R. › Biography
- Resource ID: LLS:CH78
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:40:51Z