Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth by Sam McBride

Authors

Phillip Fitzsimmons, Southwestern Oklahoma State UniversityFollow

Abstract

Sam McBride writes the following in his Introduction to Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth “Exploring Tolkien’s legendarium will show the cosmological structure of Middle-earth, but also reveal moments in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings when the metaphysical impacts the physical.” (p. x) The book delivers on its promise to show the reader places within the stories of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings likely to be influenced by spiritual beings who are described in The Silmarillion and the other volumes of the Legendarium. McBride’s book gives the reader a convincing description of the divine interventions of both visible and invisible powers from the earlier Ages of Middle-earth as they appear during the Third Age.

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