Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth (2016) by Lisa Coutras

Book review by John Wm. Houghton of Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth (2016) by Lisa Coutra

The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie (2017) by Jonathan S. McIntosh

Book review by John Wm. Houghton of The Flame Imperishable (2017) by Jonathan S. McIntos

Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (2016) edited by Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann

Book review of Laughter in Middle-earth (2016), edited by Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Man

“Legato con amore in un volume”: Can Tolkien’s Ainulindalë Accommodate Divine Knowledge?

Tolkien\u27s depiction of Eru Iluvatar in the Silmarillion as coming to know the Song of the Ainur only as he hears it conflicts with ideas about the nature of divine knowledge developed by such thinkers as Ibn Sina, Maimoindes, and Thomas Aquinas--as well as with more general ideas about omniscience and eternity. Texts recently published in The Nature of Middle-earth indicate that Tolkien was aware of some of these divergences. The fact that he classifies the Ainulindalë as a legend in which divine thought is merely represented as music offers some possibilities for reconciliation with the theological tradition, but Tolkien himself does not seem to have pursued these

The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie (2017) by Jonathan S. McIntosh

Book review by John Wm. Houghton of The Flame Imperishable (2017) by Jonathan S. McIntos

Creation and Beauty in Tolkien\u27s Catholic Vision: A Study of the Influence of Neoplatonsim in J.R.R. Tolkien\u27s Philosophy of Life as “Being and Gift” (2020) by Michael John Halsall

Book review by John Wm. Houghton of Creation and Beauty in Tolkien\u27s Catholic Vision: A Study of the Influence of Neoplatonsim in J.R.R. Tolkien\u27s Philosophy of Life as “Being and Gift” by Michael John Halsal

Tolkien and the Relation between Sub-Creation and Reality (2023), edited by Guiseppe Pezzini and Eden O\u27Brien

Book review, by John Wm. Houghton, of Tolkien and the Relation between Sub-Creation and Reality (2023), edited by Guiseppe Pezzini and Eden O\u27Brie

Tolkien\u27s Calques of Classicisms: Who Knew Elvish Latin, What Did the Rohirrim Read, and Why Was Bilbo Cheeky?

In his legendarium, Tolkien presents four variants of what would be considered classicism in the Primary World: but the presence of all-but-immortal elves creates situations in which a classicizing devotion to ancient exemplars might not arise