The Silmarillion and Judeo-Christian Themes Tolkien disliked topical and allegorical readings of his mythology. Although he did acknowledge that writing myth and fairytale required a certain amount of allegorical language, he said that many of his readers confuse "applicability" with "allegory." ...
Imagine being in a world before the industrial world and into a world where magic and mystery are the dominant force of life. Step back into a world where there are monsters, demons and evil wizards, but with this, there are friends all of kinds, fairies and good wizards. Here one has entered the ...
Tolkien's Archetypal Hero(s) When J.R.R Tolkien published the first book in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, in 1954 he broke ground and paved the way for fantasy all the way to the twenty-first century -- a century that still holds Tolkien's works on a glorious pedestal that stands far and above t...
