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Issue 78
J.R.R. Tolkien

Issue 78
2003

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Did You Know?
Windows on the life and work of J.R.R. Tolkien


From the Editor: He Gave Us Back Myth and with it, Truth


Meeting Professor Tolkien
An American professor spent a summer with Tolkien. He remembers the man, his faith, and his writings.


Tolkien: Man Behind the Myth
At odds with his age, he created another.


A Feeling for Language
Without philology, Middle-earth would never have exisited. But what is philology?


The Christian Humanists
Tolkien joined these authors in countering the decadence of a dark century.


One Truth, Many Tales
How did tolkien's approach to writing for a secularizing world compare with those of his Christian contemporaries?


Sacramental Imagination
Catholicism anchored Tolkien's life and suffused his writings.


A Christian History Timeline: The Life & Times of J.R.R. Tolkien

Good & Evil in Middle-earth
The characters are mythic, but the epic sweeps across a Christian moral landscape.


The Gallery: The Inklings
Tolkien relished his weekly meetings with this club of remarkable friends.


Tollers & Jack
Tolkien and Lewis made an odd couple, but the contributed profoundly to each other's work.


Hobbits & Englishmen
His were small people surmounting impossible odds.


Father of Epic Fantasy
Scores of authors have paid Tolkien the highest homage - imitation.


An Unexpected Party
Like Bilbo discovering one dwarf after another at his door, Tolkien found himself, in the 1960s, hosting a growing American fan club.


Recommended Resources: Understanding Tolkien
From light romps to profound reads, a bumper crop of books tells us more about the maker of Middle-earth.




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