Paul E. Kerry is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, research associate at Corpus Christi College and visiting fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge. Sandra Miesel holds mastersO degrees in biochemistry and medieval history from the University of Illinois. She is the co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code and has written numerous articles for the Catholic press.

• 1 Preface2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 Introduction: Exploring Tolkien's UniverseChapter 4 Water, Ecology, and Spirituality in Tolkien's Middle-EarthChapter 5 Divine Contagion-On the Nature in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the RingsChapter 6 Reflections of Christendom in the Mythopoeic Iconography of Middle-EarthChapter 7 The Biblical Structure of The Lord of the RingsChapter 8 Ymagynatyf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Roman Catholicism, Catholic Theology, Religion in The Lord of the RingsChapter 9 I am the Song, Music, Poetry, and the Transcendental in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-EarthChapter 10 Tolkien: Lord of the Occult?Chapter 11 The Fantastic Secret of Tolkien's Fairy Tales: Literature and Jesuit Spiritual ExercisesChapter 12 Life-Giving Ladies: Women in the Writings of J.R.R. TolkienChapter 13 Where two or three are gathered: Tolkien and the InklingsChapter 14 Peter Jackson, Evil, and the Temptation of Films at the Cracks of DoomChapter 15 Songs of Innocence and Experience, or, What Remains of Tolkien's "Catholic" Tale in Jackson's The Lord of Rings16 Bibliography17 Biographical Entries

These essays. . . offer some insight into the interpretation of Tolkein's work.

Paul E. Kerry is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, research associate at Corpus Christi College and visiting fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge. Sandra Miesel holds mastersO degrees in biochemistry and medieval history from the University of Illinois. She is the co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code and has written numerous articles for the Catholic press.

• 1 Preface2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 Introduction: Exploring Tolkien's UniverseChapter 4 Water, Ecology, and Spirituality in Tolkien's Middle-EarthChapter 5 Divine Contagion-On the Nature in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the RingsChapter 6 Reflections of Christendom in the Mythopoeic Iconography of Middle-EarthChapter 7 The Biblical Structure of The Lord of the RingsChapter 8 Ymagynatyf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Roman Catholicism, Catholic Theology, Religion in The Lord of the RingsChapter 9 I am the Song, Music, Poetry, and the Transcendental in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-EarthChapter 10 Tolkien: Lord of the Occult?Chapter 11 The Fantastic Secret of Tolkien's Fairy Tales: Literature and Jesuit Spiritual ExercisesChapter 12 Life-Giving Ladies: Women in the Writings of J.R.R. TolkienChapter 13 Where two or three are gathered: Tolkien and the InklingsChapter 14 Peter Jackson, Evil, and the Temptation of Films at the Cracks of DoomChapter 15 Songs of Innocence and Experience, or, What Remains of Tolkien's "Catholic" Tale in Jackson's The Lord of Rings16 Bibliography17 Biographical Entries

These essays. . . offer some insight into the interpretation of Tolkein's work.

Paul E. Kerry is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, research associate at Corpus Christi College and visiting fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge. Sandra Miesel holds mastersO degrees in biochemistry and medieval history from the University of Illinois. She is the co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code and has written numerous articles for the Catholic press.

• 1 Preface2 AcknowledgementsChapter 3 Introduction: Exploring Tolkien's UniverseChapter 4 Water, Ecology, and Spirituality in Tolkien's Middle-EarthChapter 5 Divine Contagion-On the Nature in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the RingsChapter 6 Reflections of Christendom in the Mythopoeic Iconography of Middle-EarthChapter 7 The Biblical Structure of The Lord of the RingsChapter 8 Ymagynatyf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Roman Catholicism, Catholic Theology, Religion in The Lord of the RingsChapter 9 I am the Song, Music, Poetry, and the Transcendental in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-EarthChapter 10 Tolkien: Lord of the Occult?Chapter 11 The Fantastic Secret of Tolkien's Fairy Tales: Literature and Jesuit Spiritual ExercisesChapter 12 Life-Giving Ladies: Women in the Writings of J.R.R. TolkienChapter 13 Where two or three are gathered: Tolkien and the InklingsChapter 14 Peter Jackson, Evil, and the Temptation of Films at the Cracks of DoomChapter 15 Songs of Innocence and Experience, or, What Remains of Tolkien's "Catholic" Tale in Jackson's The Lord of Rings16 Bibliography17 Biographical Entries

These essays. . . offer some insight into the interpretation of Tolkein's work.