Tolkien, Lord of Middle Earth
"How extraordinary, I thought, though Tolkien does not a single reference to Jesus Christ in any of the three thick volumes of The Lord of the Rings, his face can be seen almost every page."
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"How extraordinary, I thought, though Tolkien does not a single reference to Jesus Christ in any of the three thick volumes The Lord of the Rings, his face can be seen almost every page. " It says the popular novelist Stephen Lawhead, one of 15 authors selected by Joseph Pearce to highlight the Catholicism of an author who has broken like no divorce between faith and culture.
This is not just a book for readers of Tolkien. It is a book that should have all high school literature teachers and that's a compelling book for all Catholics who love Tolkien. It is an essential book for anyone interested in understanding a formula, a style that has come with the famous divorce between faith and culture: the style of the Inklings, a group of Christian writers Oxford focused on CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and Owen Barfield.
When this Christmas the first of three films of The Lord of the Rings sweeps theaters around the world, with pale-such a myth-a contemporary as The Star Wars, JRR Tolkien will be a classic literature to become a mass phenomenon, and one that lasts. An educated youth without ideals will be seduced by Middle Earth and its values, transported to a place where life, death, heroism or sacrifice still make sense. For many, their first contact with Christian art, and probably never will notice. Is work scholars, teachers, people with responsibility for culture to take note of this phenomenon, to know and learn from it.
Joseph Pearce's book, American Catholic journalist and biographer of another great English Catholic writer GK Chesterton is, arrives just in time and is a bet by the Editorial Minotauro Tolkien get recognition as a literary and cultural importance . Among the writers are specialists Jesuits, the greatest exponent of the current Christian heroic fantasy (Stephen Lawhead), people who personally knew the British author and secretary of CS Lewis, himself a convert to Catholicism. This is a book for show that the Catholic culture can conquer the masses without fussiness, without complexes, but knowing that you create, first of all and inexcusably, Art.
Bibliographic:
PEARCE, Joseph. JRR Tolkien, Lord of Middle Earth, Ed Minotaur (www.edicionesminotauro.com), Issue 1 September 2001, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b234 pages.
From: Catholic.net
