Pagan Saints in Middle-earth
Pagan Saints in Middle-earth is an academic book by Claudio A. Testi on the Pagan and Christian sources of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. It was published as No. 37 in the Cormarë Series.
Contents
- Part I: Analysis of the Different Perspectives
- — Tolkien's Work is Christian
- — — It Contradicts "Tolkien's Razor"
- — — It Confuses Allegory and Application with Exemplification and Interpretation
- — — It Confuses a Source with a Representation
- — — It Derives a Total Correspondence from a Partial Similarity by Ignoring the Differences
- — — It Diminishes the Vastness of the Tolkienian Perspective
- — Tolkien's Work is Pagan
- — — It Diminshes the Importance of those Texts where the Connection between the Legendarium and Christianity is More Evident
- — — It Erroneously Considers Some Elements of the Legendarium to Be in Opposition to Christianity
- — — It Confuses Historical Paganism with "Tolkienian" Paganism
- — — It Applies a Symbolic Reading to Tolkien's Work to the Detriment of its Comprehension
- — — It Diminishes the Scope of Tolkien's Perspective
- — Tolkien's Work is Pagan and Christian
- — — Points of View and Contradictions
- — — Dialectics and the Legendarium
- Part II: The Synthetic Approach
- — Synthesis: Tolkien's Work is Pagan and in Harmony with Christianity
- — — Principles
- — — Definition and Use of the Term "Pagan"
- — — Enunciation of the Proposed Synthesis
- — Paganism in Tolkien's World and Its Harmony with Christianity
- — — Poetic and Hermeneutic Principles
- — — Paganism in Harmony with Christianity in Tolkien's Universe
- — Catholicism and the Works of Tolkien
- — — Clarification of the Term "Catholic"
- — — Why Tolkien's Work is "Fundamentally Catholic"
- Conclusion
Referencias
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