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He is the bestselling author of 13 books including biographies of GK Chesterton, HG Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. His most recent book, Why Catholics are Right, has been on the Canadian best-seller list for eleven weeks and has
He was formerly JRR Tolkien Professor of Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, where he continues as Research Fellow of St Anne's College. His new book is Conscience: A Very Short Introduction.
As for the contemporary writing world, I think @Akutamba is right in citing Tolkien and others (and I would add science fiction writers, as well): No matter what you think of their writing styles, they've reminded us that there are many ways to tell a
So, to use Anders's examples, the Klingons and the Green Men of Mars are savages of Romance, their warlike characters determined by ethnicity much as we find in Tolkien's orcs, in all those races of Fantasy whose “swarthy” skin is evermade a signifier
Il est également un collaborateur régulier de The Catholic Register, Women's Post, The Landowner et The Interim. Il est l'auteur de 13 ouvrages à succès, dont les biographies de GK Chesterton, HG Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, JRR Tolkien et CS Lewis.
Sacnoth's Scriptorium: As Catholic As The Day Is Long
So, just before heading out to Kalamazoo I ordered a copy of the new Joseph Pearce documentary about J. R. R. Tolkien as a Catholic writer. Originating as an hour-long show on Catholic TV (i.e., EWTN*), this had been discussed on the MythSoc list not long before, but I decided I'd like to see it for myself and also have a reference copy. And now I do, as it arrived here the day after I got back. Unfortunately, I found it somewhat lacking. In format it went back and forth between three modes. First, we have narration by Pearce, who's standing in some woods wearing a backpack and carrying a walking stick. Occasionally we break away to a scene in which an actor playing Tolkien (and, in one scene, a second as C. S. Lewis) looks up from his desk, recites some snippet from JRRT's letters, and puts his pipe back in his mouth. Finally, rather too often we see a still picture of a piece of Tolkien-inspired art that serves as a backdrop to a voiceover reading of some passage from THE LORD OF THE RINGS or AINULINDALE. It's not the facts but the interpretation where this piece falls down for me. The argument is not just that Tolkien is a Catholic writer -- a self-evident truth -- but that a Cathl0centric point of view is the only valid one through which to interpret his work. To try to build his case, Pearce resorts to heavy allegorization of the evidence. Thus he asserts that "Tolkien's Melkor is merely another name for Satan" and "merely different words for the same thing: Melkor IS Satan" . The Lord of the Ring himself is "Sauron, the greatest of Satan's servants". But thinking through the consequences of its claims is not this documentary's strong point. Instead, its blurring of Tolkien's story and orthodox Catholic doctrine produces some odd effects and distortions to both. For example, Pearce claims that March 25th (the date of the Ring's destruction) is the most important holy day in the entire Xian calendar -- which shd come as a surprise to those of us who celebrate Christmas, Good Friday, and Easter. Elsewhere, and rather bizarrely, Pearce claims The One Ring is Original Sin itself. One wd think this wd be good news -- if Original Sin got tossed into a volcano and destroyed for all time thousands of years ago at the end of the Third Age, then Satan has never been able to take physical form in historical time (Jesus must have been imagining his presence throughout the Temptation in the Wilderness of the Gospel account).
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I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: The Blessed Sacrament. There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all
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