Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work by Jared Lobdell, Julian Tim Morton Eilmann, Colin Duriez, Paul E. Kerry, Glen Robert Gill, Anne C. Petty, Robert Lazu, Sandra Miesel, John Warwick Montgomery, Matthew Dickerson, Christopher Garbowski, Roger Ladd, Russell W. Dalton

Browse Similar Books

View Question Bank

Read With Others

Start a Readalong

Start a Buddy Read

Book Information

Add Missing Information

Report Missing/Incorrect Information

Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work

Jared Lobdell, Julian Tim Morton Eilmann, Colin Duriez, Paul E. Kerry, Glen Robert Gill, Anne C. Petty, Robert Lazu, Sandra Miesel, John Warwick Montgomery, Matthew Dickerson, Christopher Garbowski, Roger Ladd, Russell W. Dalton

220 pages • first pub 2011 • 3 editions

nonfiction essays religion informative medium-paced

Description

What forms can religious experience take in a world without cult or creed? Organized religion is notably absent from J. R. R. Tolkien's Secondary Universe of elves, dwarves, men and hobbits despite the author's own deep Catholic faith. Tolkien sta...