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Overview"At the heart of Tolkienian fantasy is ""recovery,"" a ""cleaning of the windows"" of our perception that we may learn to see the world again in all its strange and bewildering beauty. And, for Tolkien, to recover the world anew is to recover a sense of the world as a meaningful act of creation by a living and loving Creator. How does Tolkien accomplish this? Through ""sub-creation"" or mythopoeia, the ""fashioning of myth."" For it is in creating an imaginary world ourselves through poetry, fairy-story and myth that we come to ""see"" our ""primary world"" as itself an act of creation. In short, mythopoetic creation, far from being ""lies breathed through silver,"" uncovers for us the truth of our world as a story of creation. This book is the first sustained attempt to show not only the centrality of recovery to Tolkien's fantasy but the way in which his fantasy affects that primal recovery in every reader. In doing so, this book not only reveals the marvelous philosophical and theological riches that underlie Tolkien's fantasy but shows how his mythopoetic fiction allows the recovery and enactment of these riches in our own lives. In these pages we learn how Tolkien's fantasy addresses fundamental problems such as the relation of language to reality, the nature of evil, the distinction between time and eternity and its relation to death and immortality, the paradox of necessity and free will in human action and the grounds for providential hope in a ""happy ending."" Indeed, The Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien shows how for Tolkien fantasy has within itself a healing power through which intellectual, moral and existential paradoxes are resolved and our intellectual and perceptual faculties are made whole again so that they may participate with renewed vigour in the life-giving work of creation of every sort." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert J. Dobie , Bradley J. BirzerPublisher: The Catholic University of America Press Imprint: The Catholic University of America Press ISBN: 9780813238159ISBN 10: 0813238153 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 31 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRobert Dobie is Professor and Chair, School of Arts and Sciences at LaSalle University, and author of Thinking Through Revelation: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages and Logos and Revelation: Ibn 'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and Mystical Hermeneutics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |