The Good News of the Return of the King. Michael T. Jahosky
from MORGOTH’S RING: The Later Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, Copyright ©1993 by Frank Richard Williamson and Christopher Reuel Tolkien as Executors of the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from “Mythopoeia” from TREE AND LEAF by J.R.R. Tolkien. Copyright© 1964 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Renewed 1992 by John F.R. Tolkien, Christopher R. Tolkien, and Priscilla M.A.R. Tolkien, Copyright ©1988 by The Tolkien Trust. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” from THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS by J.R.R. Tolkien. Copyright © 1983 by Frank Richard Williamson and Christopher Reuel Tolkien as Executors of the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from “On Fairy Stories” from THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS by J.R.R. Tolkien. Copyright © 1983 by Frank Richard Williamson and Christopher Reuel Tolkien as Executors of the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Endnotes
1 Sandra Richter, “Response to Chapter 1,” in Ryken, Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth, 35–36.
2 Piper, “C. S. Lewis, Romantic Rationalist,” 32.
3 McGrath, C. S. Lewis: A Life, 277.
4 Lewis, “Letter to Arthur Greeves from the Kilns, 18 October 1931,” in Lewis and Hooper, Letters, 366–68.
5 Tolkien, Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 131.
6 Tolkien, “Beowulf,” 113.
7 Tolkien, “Beowulf,” 113.
8 Starr, Faun’s Bookshelf, ch. 10, sect. “Myth, Reality, and Truth,” loc. 1936.
9 In his essay “On the Reading of Old Books” (which is in the God in the Dock essay collection), Lewis says that “Mere Christianity turns out to be no insipid inter-denominational transparency, but something positive, self-consistent, and inexhaustible” (p. 203).
10 Lewis, “Christianity and Culture,” in Hooper, Christian Reflections, 28.
11 Lewis, “Christianity and Culture,” in Hooper, Christian Reflections.
12 Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien, ch. 1, loc. 575.
13 Wright, Simply Jesus. Wright uses the phrase “how God became king” in this and many of his other books.
14 Tolkien, “On Fairy Stories,” sect. “Recovery, Escape, Consolation,” para. 1.
15 Myers and Noebel, Understanding the Times, 5.
16 Sayers, The Letters, “Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1943.”
17 McGrath, Lunch with C. S. Lewis, 63.
18 Snodgrass, Stories with Intent, 7.
19 Tolkien, Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Letters 142 and 211.
20 Kreglinger, Storied Revelations, 15.
21 Dickinson, Poems of Emily Dickinson, poem 1129, p. 41.
22 Murray, “J. R. R. Tolkien and the Art of the Parable,” in Pearce, Tolkien: A Celebration, 40–52.
23 Funk, “Parables: A Fragmentary Agenda,” in Funk, Funk on Parables, 300.
24 Kreglinger, Storied Revelations, 22.
25 Kreglinger, Storied Revelations, 22.
26 Kreglinger, Storied Revelations, 368.
27 Kreglinger, Storied Revelations, ch. 2.
28 Tolkien, Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 186.
29 Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Foreword.
30 Tolkien, Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 181.
31 Kreglinger, Storied Revelations, ch. 2.
32 McFague, Speaking in Parables, ch. 4.