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Christian History Magazine—Issue 78: J.R.R. Tolkien & Lord of the Rings is unavailable, but you can change that!

Explore the world of J.R.R. Tolkien—a Christian author in a modern time and place shadowed by war. Learn how his work is a response to the condition of his times, and how the great novelist developed creatively through his interaction with his children—at times his only audience.

Wraiths” are creatures, then, who have been “writhen,” or “bent,” out of their natural and original shape—for as Elrond says, “nothing is evil in the beginning.” For Tolkien, philology provided not only the Shire and the ents and orcs and woses of ancient stories, but also a moral and philosophical framework of conviction.
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