Michael Coren’s J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man Who Created The Lord of the Rings is a no-fuss, cursory overview of the life of the legendary author. Coren’s slim volume is to-the-point, undramatic, and plain… perhaps to a fault. The biography, though educational, reads only a little better than a lengthy encyclopedia entry. However, like an encyclopedia […]
Thoughts on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
I never saw the Lord of the Rings movies when I was growing up. I wasn’t allowed to watch them or read the books either. My parents (fundamental Christians) saw all fictional magic as evil. The Bible says that witches, magic, and sorcery are evil, therefore, my parents felt that magic should not be a […]