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...
Published in: | Religion and the arts |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Religion and the arts
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Further subjects: | B
primary world
verisimilitude
sub-creation
Eucatastrophe
aesthetics
theology
literature
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