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J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth

By Bradley J. Birzer

Book information

Publisher
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Year
2002
ISBN
1882926846, 9781882926848
LCC
PR6039.O32 L63245 2002
Open Library ID
OL23247042M
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
692 kB (708482 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
255\0
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Peter Jackson’s film version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the accompanying proliferation of Rings-related paraphernalia, has once again brought the work of J. R. R. Tolkien to a popular audience. There are, however, few full and accessible treatments of the religious vision permeating Tolkien’s influential works. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with his fresh study, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth. In it, Birzer explicates the religious symbolism and significance of Tolkien’s Middle-earth stories. More broadly, Birzer situates Tolkien within the Christian humanist tradition represented by Thomas More and T. S. Eliot, Dante and C. S. Lewis. He argues that through the genre of myth Tolkien is able to provide a sophisticated—and appealing—social and ethical worldview.

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