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Tom Bombadil's Resistance Of The One Ring Totally Sells Me On One Popular Lord Of The Rings Theory
One theory about Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings books is that he parallels J.R.R. Tolkien’s devout Catholicism, ...
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Tolkien and Lewis’ Fraught Friendship Takes to the Stage
As a teen, authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien opened up worlds for me that were both fantastic and faith-filled. I wouldn’t come to understand the deeper Catholic motifs in The Lord of the ...
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Why JRR Tolkien Made March 25 the Day the Ring Was Destroyed
From the Shire to Mount Doom, Frodo’s path was mapped with the Church calendar in mind — a quiet testament to Tolkien’s Catholic imagination. Illustration of Mary and Gabriel from Agostino ...
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How do you know when you are 'Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes'?
James Keane's book Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes highlights "50 Writers, Thinkers, and Firebrands" whose ...
‘Hillbilly Hobbit’: How Lord of the Rings Shaped JD Vance’s Worldview
Luke Burgis, author of a book about René Girard (another of Vance's intellectual heroes) and Catholic University of America ...
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Who Created Middle-earth, Arda, and, Well, Everything in Lord of the Rings? The Gods of Tolkien's Fantasy World, Explained
Tolkien's devout Catholic faith drove The Lord of the Rings, as well as the larger body of work he crafted after it. "The Lord of the Rings is of course fundamentally a religious and Catholic work ...