Tragedy, Providence, and Sin in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Children of Hurin
Known as probably Tolkien’s darkest work, The Children of Hurin illustrates well the relationship between sin, providence, and tragedy.
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Books
REVIEW: The Virgin Shall Give Birth – Fr. John Lawrence M. Polis, FI (Academy of the Immaculate, 2022)
Fr. Polis offers a detailed overview of the Scotistic doctrines associated with the Virgin Birth in this eminently readable but thorough volume.
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REVIEW: The Last Closet – Moira Greyland (Castalia House, 2018)
The daughter of established fantasy writer Marion Zimmer Bradley details her experiences as an abuse victim and the twisted ideology of her free love-addicted abusers.
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REVIEW: One Man in His Time – Serge Obolensky (1958; Mystery Grove, 2021)
Fighting across two World Wars and the Russian Civil War, Serge Obolensky chronicles the arc of his adventuresome life in these memoirs.
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REVIEW: An Outlaw’s Diary: The Commune – Cécile Tormay (1923; Antelope Hill Press, 2020)
In 1919, communism came to Hungary under Soviet Bolshevist Bela Kun. Its reign of terror is chronicled here by controversial thinker Cecile Tormay.
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REVIEW: Rethinking the Enlightenment – Joseph Stuart (Sophia Institute Press, 2020)
Author Joseph Stuart’s analysis of the Enlightenment offers new details but no new praxis in its approach to liberalism and Catholicism.
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REVIEW: Blessed Charles of Austria – Charles Coulombe (TAN books, 2020)
Coulombe monographs Blessed Charles of Austria, offering apologia for monarchy and a brief history of the empire’s dismantling in the process.
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REVIEW: Always With Honor – Pyotr Wrangel (Mystery Grove, 2020)
Pyotr Wrangel, leader of one of the White Russian factions during the Russian Civil War, gives his own account of the struggle for Russia’s people–and her soul.
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REVIEW: Copse 125 – Ernst Jünger (1925; Rogue Scholar Press, 2020)
Ernst Junger provides a detailed account of WWI trench warfare, greatly expanding upon The Storm of Steel. Here he includes meditations on nationalism, technology, and daily life on the front: insights contemporary reactionaries could learn from.
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REVIEW: Live Not By Lies – Rod Dreher (Penguin Random House, 2020)
With Live Not by Lies, Rod Dreher continues in much the same vein that his 2016 effort The Benedict Option left off: a practical stab at dealing with the severe cultural rot that lurches ominously toward outright persecution. Where his previous book used the Benedictine Order and its impact on medieval Europe as its framework, Dreher here focuses on the Soviet empire’s totalitarianism and the efforts Christian dissidents used to survive its reign of terror.
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