If you go to UH, consider this: RELS 3396: Christianity in - TopicsExpress



          

If you go to UH, consider this: RELS 3396: Christianity in High Fantasy: JRR Tolkien and the Catholic Imagination taught by Chris Larimore. M-F 10:00am-12:00pm In this course, we will look at the ways in which JRR Tolkien – creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings – fuses his academic passion for stories and languages with his own devout Catholic ideology. While it may seem strange to call his Middle-earth a ‘Catholic’ realm, but Tolkien himself confessed that The Lord of the Rings is a fundamentally Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision (Letters 153). We will look at why it is a Catholic text, as well as how. In addition, we will explore Tolkiens wider body of work, including the Creation story, the casting out of paradise and the fallen angels in The Silmarillion). The questions we will ask include: · Can Middle-earth be both Catholic and secular? · Where is God in Tolkien’s world? · What Biblical stories does Tolkien adapt – and why? · Who is Galadriel, Tom Bombadil, Lúthien? · How was Tolkien’s world created – literally and literarily? · Does the battle between good and evil mirror that of the Bible?
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 17:55:42 +0000

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