Celebrating Middle-earth: The Lord of the Rings as a Defense of Western Civilization
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1587420120 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 108 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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R. Each discusses the deeper message beneath the story.. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings occupies in the literary, political and religious traditions of Western society. In Celebrating Middle-earth six writers explore the important place that J. R. Those writers are: John West, Peter Kreeft, Janet Blumberg, Joseph Pearce, Kerry Dearborn and Phillip Goggans
"Informative, though Heavy on Christian Message themes" according to James J. Bloom. Like some other reviewers, I was a little taken back by the strong Christian theology message in a few of the essays. I might have been prepared for this if the book was published by an evangelist publishing house, but was surprised that it was sponsored by an academic non-denominational enterprise. I can appreciate that Tolkien was a devout, practicing Catholic, but really wasn't up for an analysis cross-referencing LotR to the Gospels.. A Customer said kindred spirits. Some may "grit their teeth" (as one disgruntled reviewer said below) through these essays, but readers more in tune with Tolkien's own philosophy will be pleased to find these kindred spirits. Virtually every political and cultural movement of the past forty years, from free-spirited hippies in the '60s, to strident environmentalists in the '70s, to Christian fundamentalists in the new millennium. has tried to co-opt Tolkien's books as e. Tolkien -- A Defender of Western Civilization +++ Before reading "Celebrating Middle-Earth" -- and before reading other commentary works on LOTR [Lord of the Rings] -- I saw Tolkien as a defender of Western Civilization -- as well as warning of excess -- such as power, greed, warfare and over-mining. LOTR [and "The Silmarillion"] is Creatively composed of some main cultural components of "The West" -- such as various Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, Celto-Nordic, Finnish, and even Amerindi
JOHN G. . WEST, JR., is assistant professor of political science at Seattle Pacific University and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle
About the Author JOHN G. . WEST, JR., is assistant professor of political science at Seattle Pacific University and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle