The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and the Lord of the RingsLatta, Corey
摘要: In the Second Age of Middle-earth the Necromancer Sauron joined with elven smiths to forgemagic rings Sauron has no delight in tree or gold or gift or elvish healing or the skills of of darknesspierced by a yellow-rimmed lidless eye, in a burned and blackened form too terrible...
Evald Ilyenkov began his philosophical career in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin in the so-called time of the “Thaw,” when Stalinism was officially declared to be an anti-humanist and irrational “cult of personality.” At the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, the countr...
The Hidden Presence of Tolkien’s Catholicism in The Lord of the Ringsby Stratford CaldecottWith the release in December 2001 of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of a three-movie series based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, public interest in the Oxford don whose ...
CHRISTIANITYTODAY I N T E R N A T I O N A L © 2004 Vi si t . Chri st i anBi bl eSt udi es. com DISCUSSION GUIDE The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy) We must decide what to do with the time we are given. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, consisting of The Fellowship of the...
closely akin to Christianity at this point. Even many who call themselves Christian do not look for hope in the unlooked-for places. Like Faramir we cannot imagine what they might be so we do not look beyond the tried and tested or beyond a slightly better version of what we already ...
It’s hard to overstate the soaring achievement of Peter Jackson and company in The Return of the King, the third and final chapter of their historic adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. To call it the grandest spectacle ever filmed is no exaggeration; it may also be the most satisfying ...
Lewis, one of the most oft-quoted Christian writers by LDS leaders and authors, owed much of his own conversion to Christianity to his friend and Oxford colleague, J.R.R. Tolkien. CosmogonyIt’s important to first understand a little about Tolkien’s world, Middle-earth, if we are to ...
Return of the King offers a resolution of all of the major story arcs in LOTR. As with the classic Tolkien trilogy, however, you may be able to predict some of what will occur, but never all of it and you'll never guess how you will get there. The same fatalistic and paradoxically ...
The 80+ Best Movies With Lord in the Title, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of ...