TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerry,Paul E.
TI  - The ring and the cross: Christianity and the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien 
SN  - 9781611470642 (alk. paper)
AV  - PR 6039 .O32  Z8136 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Madison [N.J.], Lanham, Md.
PB  - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Tolkien, J. R. R.
KW  - Fantasy fiction, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Christianity and literature
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Christianity in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : a historiography of Christian approaches to Tolkien's The lord of the rings; Paul E. Kerry --; The pagan Tolkien; Ronald Hutton --; The Christian Tolkien : a response to Ronald Hutton; Nils Ivar Ag�y --; Can we still have a pagan Tolkien? : a reply to Nils Ivar Ag�y; Ronald Hutton --; The Entwives : investigating the spiritual core of The lord of the rings; Stephen Morillo --; "Like heathen kings" : a religion as palimpsest in Tolkien's fiction; John R. Holmes --; Confronting the world's weirdness : J. R. R. Tolkien's The children of H�urin; Ralph C. Wood --; Eru erased : the minimalist cosmology of The lord of the rings; Catherine Madsen --; The ring and the cross : how J. R. R. Tolkien became a Christian writer; Chris Mooney --; Redeeming sub-creation; Carson L. Holloway --; Catholic scholar, Catholic sub-creator; Jason Boffetti --; "An age comes on" : J. R. R. Tolkien and the English Catholic sense of history; Michael Tomko --; The lord of the rings and the Catholic understanding of community; Joseph Pearce --; Tracking Catholic influence in The lord of the rings; Paul E. Kerry --; Saintly and distant mothers; Marjorie Burns --; The "last battle" as a Johannine Ragnar�ok : Tolkien and the universal; Bradley J. Birzer
ER  -