Holy Moot

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So friends: HOLY MOOT is coming! If you have contributions worth hearing on the interplay of Tolkien and Theology, please be in touch!

The Triumph of the Angelicals

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  Charles Williams writing about a church of which I was the Pastor in the 1990s.             As he reached the other side he saw before him...
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A Seminal Book

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Peter Kreeft writes in the 'Foreword' : "The Proverbs of Middle-earth is worth reading, for fun as well as for (menta...

Tomorrow is Publication Day.

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Here is a link to the 'Proverbs of Middle-earth' page on the Oloris Website, including a long excerpt, "What Makes a Proverb...

2 days...

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"Arda, the world of which Middle-earth is but a part and The Lord Of The Rings only a chapter, is Tolkien’s Tr...

Just 3 days...

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Eala Earendel engla beorhtast      [Hail Earendel, brightest of angels] Ofer middangeard monnum sended      [Above Middle-ear...

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"The history of Arda repeatedly shows that it is the libido dominandi —the lust for power—that corrupts.  ...

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[Image: 'The Mountain Path' - J.R.R. Tolkien] "In the summer of 1911, Tolkien went on a walking holiday in the high Alps...

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A ragorn’s knowledge of oral tradition is not limited to proverbs: according to Butterbur ‘he can tell a rare tale when he has the mind’;  u...

7 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"

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"When Ingold bars Gandalf’s path at the Rammas, citing the proverb Wish for no strangers in the land as his justification, he is...

8 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"

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"Butterbur and Bree have a paradox at their heart: they are  open yet closed; hospitable yet suspicious; well-informed yet small- mi...

9 days to go to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle Earth"

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"On the long march from Emyn Muil to Mount Doom, Frodo knows that he cannot rely on Sam for more than companionable stol...

10 days before the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth

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" Saruman’s sayings act as a rhetorical technique to shut down debate and to silence others. In this way, he tells the future king o...

11 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"

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"Whilst not being particularly remarkable in other ways, the Bree-hobbits were famous for, and proud of, being the originators of an...

12 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"

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"Put Hobbits in counsels of war, discerning the devices of evil, and they will fall silent. But get them discussing ale (Proper four...

13 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"

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... and we have a cover image too. "Bilbo’s ‘as my father used to say’,   Sam’s ‘as my Gaffer used to say’   and Pippin’s ‘as we sa...

14 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"

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'[Hobbits] have a fund of wisdom and wise sayings that men have mostly never heard or have f orgotten long ago.'     (JRRT – The Ho...