This volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.Following a much-contested Call for Papers, ‘Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens’ explores Tolkien’s complex use of religious ideology, the readers’ approach to their beloved fictional world via unusual spiritual and philosophical channels, and how Middle-earth almost became a faith unto itself.
Pages
70
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Luna Press Publishing
Release
March 25, 2019
Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens: Peter Roe Series XIX
This volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.Following a much-contested Call for Papers, ‘Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens’ explores Tolkien’s complex use of religious ideology, the readers’ approach to their beloved fictional world via unusual spiritual and philosophical channels, and how Middle-earth almost became a faith unto itself.