Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
Loyalty, or in other words, faithfulness is one of the main themes of both Tolkien’s Middle-earth novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Undoubtedly, one of the main constituents of loyalty is solidarity…
The scholars who researched the virtue of wisdom in Tolkien’s work most extensively are Smith, Dickerson, Markos, and Walsh. They all agree in the understanding of wisdom as an ability to discern between various choices…
Pity and mercy are virtues that, plot-wise, play a crucial role in The Lord of the Rings, and in the conception of which Christian morality is the most evident. The terms are occasionally used interchangeably.…
Preparations Part Two Day 4 - Oxford to Birmingham Since our bus to Birmingham was leaving at 11:30, I decided to go and see the bust of Tolkien at English Faculty Library right after breakfast,…
Preparations: Part One When I learnt that the Bodleian Libraries were going to organize an all Tolkien exhibition, providing an opportunity to see his manuscripts and other personal items, as comes only once in a…
Courage is the virtue of which Tolkien most markedly juxtaposed the ancient (pagan) world understanding with the Christian. By courage, most people understand the habit of not being afraid to face danger and do heroic…
This place is dead. My spirit strains to find some whisper of life, but my questions echo loudly in the silence. And yet something teases at the edges, stretching my senses to their limits, only…
~ by Vanessa Parry-Elwen Pippin selected another walnut from the dish at his side and whacked it. The shell shattered with a loud crack, and he set too, picking out the creamy flesh. "How long have…
Pippin tossed the stone as far as he could, the plunk of its landing lost in the sound of breakers on the shore beyond the harbour. He looked at the tall white ship and wondered…
~ by Vanessa Parry-Elwen [I don’t own anything, other than a rather strange imagination. All but one of the characters in this tale belong to JRR Tolkien and the events are a wild merging of…
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