Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
C.S. Lewis is one of the single most influential Christian writers in English and World Literature alike. Spanning from flights of whimsy to heady apologetics, his countless works include The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape…
It shall come as a surprise to no one that I am a great fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. Having discovered The Lord of the Rings in Junior High (thanks in no small part to…
The Ainur The Ainur of Tolkien’s Legendarium were beings of spiritual nature who, actually, played the most important role in the forming of the World after Ilúvatar. But their understanding is rather ambiguous. The Ainulindalë…
When the great Italian director of screen and stage, Franco Zeffirelli, passed away on June 15, 2019, obituaries and tributes to the man primarily focused on his 1968 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo &…
The climb used to seem dangerous to reach the correct tier of the waterfall, the best one for reading, especially reading Tolkien. Safe there from the rest of the world, ready to be absorbed into…
The concept of evil is in The Silmarillion represented by Melkor, whose similarity to Satan is even greater than that between Eru and God. Melkor was the greatest of the Ainur with a share in…
What is the Druidic tradition of spirituality conveyed through storytelling, and what were some of Tolkien’s inspirations taken from Pagan Myth? OK, big subject this, and it’s not possible to provide more than a quick…
It’s fair to say that Tolkien was a royalist. Although he rarely discussed his political views in detail in his correspondence, in a letter to his son Christopher in 1943 he wrote, “My political opinions…
Speaking about the Christian motives, there is one of lesser importance, even though worth mentioning. It is the allusion to Paradise which is in The Silmarillion represented by Valinor, a holy land where the Valar…
The legends of Robin Hood and his Merry Men exert a near universal appeal, and have done so for generations. From ballads to books to films, the daring rebel spirit of the Prince of Thieves…
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