The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by J.R.R. Tolkien, which was later fitted as a trilogy. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier fantasy book The Hobbit, and soon developed into a much larger story. At publication, it
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Numerous details in his stories appear to reflect Christian themes or serve as religious allegorical figures. Leaf by Niggle, The Music of the Ainur, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy all contain elements that could be construed as deeply Christian. Tolkien, however, despised the use of ...
The zeal with which many tourists visit these sites has similarities to the religious pilgrimage, not only in terms of the degree of enthusiasm invoked, but also in rituals of knowledge, ardour and "spiritual" envisioning. The global fantasy industry thus fosters alternative and dualistic ...
Free Essay: J.R.R. Tolkien writes to a friend on the The Lord of the Rings as a religious work regardless of the absence of God or modern conceptions of...
Tolkien was meticulous in mapping out the geography of Middle Earth. From the peaceful Shire to the perilous Mordor, the settings in “The Lord of the Rings” are so vividly described that they become characters in their own right. As a writer, never underestimate the power of setting. The...
Concerning The Lord of the Rings he wrote that it was “a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision…the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.”3 It is not, for instance, generally well known that C.S. ...
Lewis’s dislike for Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers. It would be easy to assume that, as a devout Catholic, Tolkien was put off to Dune’s antireligious themes, particularly its deconstruction of messianic hope. Certainly this wouldn’t have endeared Dune to him. Yet Tolkien could...
Hera, voiced by Gaia Wise, in a scene from "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim."Warner Bros. Pictures via AP It’s a discombobulating experience, after a “Lord of the Rings” trilogy that was built, down to every frame and hobbit hair, for the big screen, to see...
As more information was learned about Anne and her religious vernacular, Albedo was quick to point a link to her being from the Slane Theocracy. After the completion of the mission which saw Anne being safely dropped off at E-Rantel and retrieved by her handlers, Shalltear was disappointed in...