Baptizing Middle-Earth.(The Gospel According To Tolkein: Visions Of The Kingdom In Middle-Earth)(Book Review) From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Institute on Religion and Public Life. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO TOLKIEN: VISIONS OF THE KINGDOM IN MIDDLE-EARTH. By RALPH C. WOOD. Westminster/John Knox. 169pp. $14.95 paper.

J. R. R. Tolkien once wrote ruefully, "Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant." His popularity still has its unpleasant side effects. The peculiar enthusiasms of many of his fans, the existence of fantasy as a lurid paperback genre, and the flavor of the recent movie adaptations have given The Lord of the Rings a frivolous or even Dungeons-and-Dragons image, in spite of Tolkien's own seriousness both as a ...

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