Browsing by Subject "J.R.R. Tolkien"
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Refracted Light: Moral Imagination, Ordered Desire, and Apprehending the Beautiful, Good, and True within Literary Myths
(2022-05-18)In a conversation with C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien once said that “just as speech is an invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth” (On Stories, xiv). Both believed that because humanity has been ... -
Where the Shadows Lie: Tolkien’s Medieval View of Free Will, Temptation, and Evil
(2021-05-19)J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings in such a way that the story “absorbed” specific parts of Tolkien’s own beliefs. Such an absorption allows for distinctly Medieval Christian beliefs to appear throughout the ...