![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology Through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-Earth painstakingly assembles, collates, and cross-references Tolkien’s legendarium, academic essays, and letters to construct a systematic theology. In this spirit, Austin Freeman has given a gift to Tolkien scholars and aficionados alike in a work I didn’t think could be written. Tolkien Companion and Guide to Karen Fonstad’s magisterial Atlas of Middle-Earth, from Peter Kreeft’s comprehensive Philosophy of Tolkien to Holly Ordway’s meticulously documented Tolkien’s Modern Reading, Tolkien scholars imitate his thoroughness, his love of detail, and his passion for subcreating a secondary world that’s almost as rich and multilayered as the primary world. Tolkien, from Scull and Hammond’s encyclopedic, three-volume J. He wanted ‘a place for everything and everything in the right place.’ Distinction, definition, tabulation were his delight.”įrom Christopher Tolkien’s massive 12-volume History of Middle-Earth to Humphrey Carpenter’s lovingly, if frustratingly, expurgated Letters of J. He was an organiser, a codifier, a builder of systems. Lewis defines that trait with characteristic precision: “Medieval man was not a dreamer nor a wanderer. In the first chapter of The Discarded Image, C. Tolkien attracts readers who share a personality trait with him-one he also shared with the medievals he so loved. ![]()
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