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Fetor	Enlightening Lecture on Tolkien	#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 23 11/09/05 15:34:55 Novice	Tim Keller a few years back gave a lecture on Tolkien for the International Arts Movement. Before listening to his lecture I was not wild about The Lord of the Rings. After listening to the lecture I was intrigued by Tolkien and what he was trying to accomplish. Keller painted The Lord of the Rings in a whole new light, I've never read the books or watched the movies with the same eyes and ears. You can find the lecture here: www.iamny.org/iam_store/cd_tolkien.html If you like LOTR or Tolkien it is well worth your time to listen to this lecture. I found it fascinating.
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Posts: 10 04/15/06 19:17:03	I'm just finishing John Eldredge's "Waking the Dead" and he makes large use of the Lord of the Rings, pointing out its epic mythology and how these themes of mythic reality, of a cosmic conflict and of the crucial role of the various characters echoes in the Christian meta-narrative. I first read the Lord of the Rings in 1971 -- it was final exam week of my first semester in college. It did little to help my GPA, but it is one of the few books that I've read again and again. As to the charge that it is "20th century writing," I take that as a strength and not a weakness. The idea of an author writing in the language of his readers seems... well, incarnational.
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What I don't like about the Lord of the Rings	12/17/03 16:06:02	ramclaughlin
memo: the bounds of orthodoxy	12/17/03 17:33:32	Matthew Gross
Joining Ra on the pyre	12/17/03 17:42:10	kyriosity
Re: Joining Ra on the pyre (of Denethor?)	12/17/03 19:08:46	Matthaeus Flexibilis
I guess I should have said "at the stake"	12/17/03 19:37:56	kyriosity
LOTR was the first book I ever read	12/30/03 15:55:22	Constance01
The Silmarillion	12/17/03 19:24:04	Matthaeus Flexibilis
Re: Hey, Ra, read me, read me!	12/23/03 12:10:28	Matthaeus Flexibilis
Re: Hey, Ra, read me, read me!	12/23/03 13:38:35	ramclaughlin
Re: The Silmarillion	12/23/03 21:02:47	Matthaeus Flexibilis
ummm... i actually liked the books...	12/18/03 11:58:31	Daron Lawing
paradigms and such	12/18/03 13:06:09	ramclaughlin
Re: paradigms and such	12/22/03 11:59:04	Mathetais
I don't do as much free reading as I used to, but	12/22/03 12:48:38	ramclaughlin
Running off to read ...	12/22/03 13:47:37	Mathetais
The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins	12/30/03 20:27:10	Matthaeus Flexibilis
I don't have sound at work, but I'll try when I get home!	12/31/03 13:20:19	ramclaughlin
The Lord of the Rings-a catholic tale	01/27/04 20:20:12	Canuk
Re: The Lord of the Rings-a catholic tale	01/28/04 15:13:41	Matthaeus Flexibilis
Re: What I don't like about the Lord of the Rings	10/26/05 00:54:38	MoniqueAJohnson
Enlightening Lecture on Tolkien	11/09/05 15:34:55	Fetor
Re: Enlightening Lecture on Tolkien	04/15/06 19:17:03	JohnStevenson1
Re: What I don't like about the Lord of the Rings	06/06/08 08:03:17	JohnStevenson1

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