CartTolkien's Ordinary Virtues
Exploring the Spiritual Themes of The Lord of the Rings
(paperback)
Product Details
Line: IVP Books
Length: 142 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: December 2001
ISBN-10: 0-8308-2312-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2312-3
IVP Order Code: 2312
"Writing in graceful, easy prose, Smith invites us to admire Tolkien not only for the epic scope of his imagination but also for the depth of his spiritual insight."
—David C. Downing, professor of English at Elizabethtown College
"Mark Eddy Smith's gentle account of Tolkien's ordinary virtues gets to the very quick of the great storyteller's vision."
—Colin Duriez, author of Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings
"Smith's book, Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues, caught me by surprise. I could not tell you what I was expecting--perhaps something deeply theological and hard to understand. What I found was a thing entirely different. Its presentation is deceptively simple, with chapter headings like "Faith", "Sacrifice", "Humility" and "Courage". In each of these chapters Smith delves deeply into Middle-earth and the people who inhabit it, and uses these people and the events of their lives to illustrate the characteristics God most desires us to display. (Please visit the Eclectic Homeschool Online to read the complete review."
—Eclectic Homeschool Online (April 2002)