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Tolkien’s Modernism, History, and Eucatastrophe: How J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Became ‘More than a Campus Craze’ at American Colleges in the 1960s
An excerpt of my undergraduate thesis While Tolkien’s Catholicism strongly informed his belief in many themes that build the novel, such as good versus evil, hope despite despair, and essential goodness, there is no Christian– or any other religion, for that matter– doctrine that founds Middle-Earth. There is a vague sense of Providence or other… Read more