"The Lord of the Rings is, of course, a fundamentally religious and Catholic work," Tolkien replied to him in a letter. "Unconsciously at first, then consciously when I revised it." Following the ...

INTERNATIONAL author Joseph Pearce – an acclaimed literary biographer and author of more than 30 books – will visit Brisbane ...

I mean to say: Nymphs and their Ways, The Love-Life of a Faun’.” Tolkien, who, despite his Catholicism, was a man of more taste, erudition and imagination, also disliked Lewis’s heavy-handed Christian ...

Tolkien was a deeply traditional academic—a philologist, mythographer, and devout Catholic. He had a strong moral compass rooted in ancient myth and Christian and Catholic theology. Herbert ...

The eyes of the world are focused on Rome right now because of the death of the pope, but they should also be directed at ...

And what it means to confront an organization with enormous economic and political power, in spheres as diverse as earthly justice or the twists and turns of the Peruvian Catholic Church and the ...

Three ideological currents – ultraconservative Christians, national-populists and techno-libertarians – though often at odds, ...

Appearing on Raymond Arroyo’s YouTube channel, Caviezel – a devout Roman Catholic – addressed his ... Lewis’ satirical book dedicated to JRR Tolkien about a senior devil called Screwtape ...

and a traditionalism that at times borders on religious fundamentalism (Tolkien himself was a pre–Vatican II Catholic). The Lord of the Rings is a series obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, the divine ...