The Art of The Lord of the Rings: A Defense of the Aesthetic
This article provides something of a corrective to the ongoing trend in Tolkien studies to read his fiction theologically and attach aspects of it to specific Christian doctrine and practice. Tolkien made his resistance to such “symbolic or allegorical” interpretation very clear in his letters. I ar...
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2014
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2014, Volume: 18, Issue: 5, Pages: 636-652 |
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primary world
verisimilitude
sub-creation
Eucatastrophe
aesthetics
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