Table of Contents

1 Preface 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction: Exploring Tolkien's Universe Chapter 4 Water, Ecology, and Spirituality in Tolkien's Middle-Earth Chapter 5 Divine Contagion-On the Nature in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings Chapter 6 Reflections of Christendom in the Mythopoeic Iconography of Middle-Earth Chapter 7 The Biblical Structure of The Lord of the Rings Chapter 8 Ymagynatyf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Roman Catholicism, Catholic Theology, Religion in The Lord of the Rings Chapter 9 I am the Song, Music, Poetry, and the Transcendental in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth Chapter 10 Tolkien: Lord of the Occult? Chapter 11 The Fantastic Secret of Tolkien's Fairy Tales: Literature and Jesuit Spiritual Exercises Chapter 12 Life-Giving Ladies: Women in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien Chapter 13 Where two or three are gathered: Tolkien and the Inklings Chapter 14 Peter Jackson, Evil, and the Temptation of Films at the Cracks of Doom Chapter 15 Songs of Innocence and Experience, or, What Remains of Tolkien's "Catholic" Tale in Jackson's The Lord of Rings 16 Bibliography 17 Biographical Entries

About the Author

Paul E. Kerry is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, research associate at Corpus Christi College and visiting fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge. Sandra Miesel holds mastersO degrees in biochemistry and medieval history from the University of Illinois. She is the co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code and has written numerous articles for the Catholic press.

Reviews

These essays. . . offer some insight into the interpretation of Tolkein's work.
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