Document Type
Book Review
Organization
Mythopoeic Society
Publication Date
Winter 2020
Abstract
Donald T. Williams begins his book An Encouraging Thought: The Christian Worldview in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien with the sentence, “I first read The Lord of the Rings in the summer of 1968, the summer between my junior and senior years of high school.” (p. 8 Kindle) This autobiographical fact launches the slim volume that shares Williams’s early discoveries that J.R.R. Tolkien was a Christian whose Christian worldview is expressed throughout The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and “On Fairy-Stories.”
Publication Title
Mythprint: Quarterly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society
Volume
57
Issue
4
First Page
10
Last Page
11
Recommended Citation
Fitzsimmons, Phillip, "Book Review: An Encouraging Thought: The Christian Worldview in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien by Donald T. Williams" (2020). Faculty Articles & Research. 45.
https://dc.swosu.edu/libraries_articles/45
Included in
Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons, Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America Commons, Literature in English, British Isles Commons
Comments
This is in: Mythprint: Quarterly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society. Vol. 57 No. 4, Winter 2020, Whole No. 395. p.10-11.