Tolkien: A Celebration A Celebration

by Pearce, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780898708660
• ISBN10: 0898708664
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Ignatius Press

Author Biography

Joseph Pearce, director of the Aquinas Center for Faith and Culture at Aquinas College in Nashville, is the author of three books on Shakespeare, all published by Ignatius Press, and is the editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions of Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. He is editor of the St. Austin Review (or StAR), a magazine of Christian culture and tradition published by St. Augustine’s Press.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Dedication	xi
Recollections of J. R. R. Tolkien	1	(16)
George Sayer
Over the Chasm of Fire: Christian Heroism in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings	17	(17)
Stratford Caldecott
Modernity in Middle-earth	34	(6)
Patrick Curry
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Art of the Parable	40	(13)
Robert Murray SJ
The Lord of the Rings - A Catholic View	53	(14)
Charles A. Coulombe
On the Reality of Fantasy	67	(6)
James V. Schall SJ
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Mythology for England	73	(13)
Elwin Fairburn
The Sense of Time in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings	86	(16)
Kevin Aldrich
Tolkien and the Catholic Literary Revival	102	(22)
Joseph Pearce
A Far-Off Gleam of the Gospel: Salvation in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings	124	(17)
Colin Gunton
Root and Tree: The Growth of Tolkien's Writings	141	(15)
Richard Jeffery
J. R. R. Tolkien: Master of Middle-earth	156	(16)
Stephen R. Lawhead
The Passion According to Tolkien	172	(11)
Sean McGrath
The Other Oxford Movement: Tolkien and the Inklings	183	(7)
Walter Hooper
Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: An Interview with Walter Hooper	190	(9)
Index	199