Tag: Tolkien’s Modern Reading
Review: Tolkien’s Modern Reading
Long before the printing press, Solomon complained that “of the making of many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”[1] What would Solomon say in the day of blogs and self-publishing? Yet despite...
Contrary Winds: Tolkien’s Priority of Faith and Family as Presented in Tolkien’s Modern Reading
It is difficult to be immersed in a world of contrary winds and hold steady to one’s course. And...
Ordway’s Myth-Busting Research: Tolkien’s Modern Reading (A Review)
In her monumental study, Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages (TMR), Holly Ordway debunks the popular misconception that J.R.R. Tolkien was an anti-modern medievalist whose inspiration came from the...
