A Hobbit Journey. Discovering the Enchantment of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. By Matthew Dickerson
The all-too-familiar topos of a still undiminishing stream of Tolkien-criticism is actually faced by Matthew Dickerson in his introduction, and he offers us five justifications for adding to it, these including his own enjoyment, Tolkien’s own productivity, the appearance of new primary (such as Sig...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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Literature and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 353-354 |
| Review of: | A Hobbit journey (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, 2012) (Murdoch, Brian)
Hobbit Journey, A (Grand Rapids : Baker Publishing Group, 2012) (Murdoch, Brian) |
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Book review
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| Summary: | The all-too-familiar topos of a still undiminishing stream of Tolkien-criticism is actually faced by Matthew Dickerson in his introduction, and he offers us five justifications for adding to it, these including his own enjoyment, Tolkien’s own productivity, the appearance of new primary (such as Sigurd and Gudrun, 2009) and especially secondary material, and that there is always something new to find in the works. In fact only the fifth reason has any real substance, namely that Tolkien's works have a continued relevance and may illuminate modern moral problems, and this indeed is the approach taken here. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fru009 |