15 research outputs found
Time Travel
Relates various examples of time travel and time distortion in literature. Asks why no travel stories (excepting fantasies) were written before the 19th century if the desire for such stories is as “primordial” as Tolkien says
Charles Williams and the Stone
Relates Islamic and Jewish creation stories to the Stone of King Solomon (the Shekinah) in Many Dimensions
Charles Williams and The Angelicals
Notes similarities between the angelicals that appear in The Place of the Lion and the Gnostic archons, which are also represented in animal form
Tolkien\u27s Calendar & Ithildin
Identifies the years Tolkien used as a basis for moon phases and other celestial events in The Lord of the Rings as 1944–1945