About: Lynda Ochsner
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- I enjoy Christian imaginative fiction especially the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and write about Lord of the Rings and other works by Tolkien, at https://ourblessedhope.wordpress.com Also, at this blog I have just started, I'm writing about Eastern Orthodoxy as I continue to learn it and put the Orthodox faith into practice in my daily life: https://orthodoxchristianpath.wordpress.com/
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- J.R.R. Tolkien and Sub-Creation: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings: Time, Action and Choices
- Mount Doom: Responding to Despair with Truth (a Psalm 42:5 Moment)
- The ‘If Onlys’ and ‘What might have beens’ in Lord of the Rings
- Lord of the Rings: Frodo, Sam, and Modernist, "Scientism" Thinking
- Evil Counsellors (Wormtongue, and the Queen of Underland in Narnia) and Restoration
- Elrond the Priestly, Fatherly Figure: The Fellowship Sets Out
- Hobbits in the Shire: Iluvatar's Providence and Protection
- The Lord of the Rings Prologue: Table of Nations, Pipeweed, and Other Matters
- Lord of the Rings 2023: A Lenten Reading
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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” - Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien's letters are always good. Also, his remark on Faramir is probably the main reason I doubt he would like…
That looks interesting, an unusual approach, to systematize the theology of someone who had a much stronger focus on story…
Interview with the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXhFkMm6Ofc&t=304s
So I'm actually thinking about getting this: https://lexhampress.com/product/224282/tolkien-dogmatics-theology-through-mythology-in-middle-earth
Our Blessed Hope: Thoughts on Imaginative Christian Writing 
Yes, and agree that he would not like the Jackson films. I just read through the section where he critiques…