The Geek Menace to The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien’s work has long been the subject of fandom, but this has been a net negative for his literature’s reception and interpretation.
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Books
The Hobbit: An Answer to Turin
In The Hobbit, Tolkien famously depicts a children’s story about an adventuring English bachelor, but beneath this is a meditation on providence.
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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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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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