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Names: J.R.R. Tolkien
âThe Hobbitâ Story Group 1: An Unexpected Party
One great way to explore âThe Hobbitâ is by reading it yourself. Yet if reading stories is worship, we should also read and discuss this classic together.
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E. Stephen Burnett
âHobbitâ Film Hopes: An Unexpected Journey
Much has changed since my last âThe Hobbitâ update after the teaser released in December. Now with the new trailerâs release, what are your thoughts, hopes, and predictions for âThe Hobbitâ film series?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Mayhem And Its Meaning
Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy might be the benchmark for grand battles, notably in the battle of Helm’s Deep in
The Two Towers
, the Battle of the Pelennor Fields and the Battle of Bywater in
The Return of the King
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Monsters And Their Meaning
Some writers take monsters and re-envision them. Thus, vampires become love interests instead of deadly beings from which to flee (the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyers). Dragons are good instead of evil, protected from dragon hunters by an act of God (Dragons In Our Midst series by Bryan Davis). Elves are noble and wise rather than mischievous or selfish (Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings).
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Lewis and Literature In The Library
Work continues to collect all published, Christian speculative stories in one place â the Speculative Faith Library. This effort also helps reveal a few things about the Christian-spec story field and classic authors that you may not know.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Beyond Inklings Imitations 2: Stories We May Have Missed
Most of us have read C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and newer Christian speculative novels. But what authors and classics might we have missed?
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A. T. Ross
Beyond Inklings Imitations 1: Exploring The Source
Readers have so âcultifiedâ the Inklings that authors and publishers assume the only novels we want to read are imitations of Lewis or Tolkien.
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A. T. Ross
Speculative Faith Reading Group 9: From Defeat, Final Victory
Even among the greatest stories, the finale of LWW is unique. Here are echoes of Resurrection, eternal joy, and the truth that Christâs people will reign physically over the New Heavens and New Earth.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Define âChristian Speculative Storyâ
What is this thing called Christian speculative fiction? Readers and writers are still debating that question. How do you define it? Care to defend your definition?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Which Ones Are Required Reading?
Besides Tolkien and Lewis, who else has had an impact on Christian speculative fiction? Specifically, what titles would you consider “required reading” for someone trying to understand the shape and history of present-day Christian speculative fiction?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Please Quit Calling It âWeirdâ
Iâm not picking on those who call Christian speculative stories âweird.â But Christianity doesnât succeed because itâs Weird, but because itâs true. Our speculative stories should have a similar mission.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Bringing The Personal To The Universal
Great fiction is made up of themes: Love and longing, coming of age, voyage and return, fathers, sons, daughters, mothers, overcoming the monster, death, birth, and more. These are universals, themes that can be, on one level or another, understood by any man or woman.
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Anne Elisabeth Stengl
Lord Of The Fantasies: Beholding Middle-earth
Because I first read âThe Fellowship of the Ringâ only days before seeing the film version, I did not have time to form interpretations of characters, or expectations. Thus, the film blew me away, no disappointments. But how might I have been disadvantaged?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Jack And John In Conversation
In lieu of our planned article, then, I offer you a fascinating dramatization of a dialogue between C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, with thanks to Fred Warren who found it and passed it along to me because of its relevance to the just concluded series on Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories.” Enjoy!
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
âHobbitâ Hopes and Other Happenings
âThe Hobbitâ teaser finally arrives, Gandalfâs and Dumbledoreâs first-century ancestors seek the newborn King, the dangers of appearance-based book discernment, Christmas un-specials, and: why should Christians hype âThe Hobbitâ?
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E. Stephen Burnett
The Making Of A Myth, Part 7 – Tolkien And The Gospel
Few people, even those not well-versed in fantasy, will argue against the idea that J. R. R. Tolkien is the master of the fantasy genre. In that he wrote his thoughts about this type of tale in his essay “On […]
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Making Of A Myth, Part 6 â Tolkien On Romance
Would J. R. R. Tolkien, if he were alive today, be a fan of prairie romance? The question is appropriate because of what he wrote in his essay “On Fairy-Stories” regarding escapism.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Making Of A Myth, Part 5 – The Use Of Primary Colors
I wonder what J. R. R. Tolkien would think about Harry Potter. Or Twilight. Or dystopian fantasies like Veronica Roth’s
Divergent
. Would the author of “On Fairy-Stories” be a fan of the darker forms fantasy has taken in the last decade or so?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Making Of A Myth, Part 4
Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Making Of A Myth, Part 3
In many ways Tolkien separated himself from Christian parents today because he stated bluntly that children arenât to be protected from reality though they can and should retain the guileless wonder of childhood: Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
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