Light beyond all shadow : religious experience in Tolkien's work / edited by Paul E. Kerry and Sandra Miesel.

Other author Kerry, Paul E.
Other author Miesel, Sandra, 1941-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011.
Descriptionxiii, 220 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Religion.
Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.
Religion in literature.

Contents Water, ecology, and spirituality in Tolkien's Middle-earth / Matthew Dickerson -- Divine contagion: on the nature of power in The silmarillion and The lord of the rings / Roger A. Ladd -- Reflections of Christendom in the mythopoeic iconography of middle-earth / Anne C. Petty -- Biblical archetypes in The lord of the rings / Glen Robert Gill -- Ymagynatyf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Roman Catholicism, Catholic theology, and religion in The lord of the rings / Jared Lobdell -- I am the song: music, poetry, and the transcendent in J.R.R. Tolkien's middle-earth / Julian Tim Morton Eilmann -- Tolkien: lord of the occult? / John Warwick Montgomery -- The fantastic secret of Tolkien's fairy tales: literature and Jesuit spiritual exercises / Robert Lazu -- Life-giving ladies: women in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien / Sandra Miesel -- Where two or three are gathered: Tolkien and the inklings / Colin Duriez -- Peter Jackson, evil, and the temptations of film at the crack of doom / Russell W. Dalton -- Songs of innocence and experience, or, what remains of Tolkien's "Catholic" tale in Peter Jackson's The lord of rings / Christopher Garbowski.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011016167
ISBN9781611470109 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1611470102 (cloth : alk. paper)

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