Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
Edgar Allan Poe is not only one of the best American writers, having pleasure in concerning mysterious, sad and scary, almost horror topics in his literary works. Moreover, he was also a critic and theoretician,…
It is known that Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne were good friends. Actually, Melville inscribed his book Moby Dick, to Hawthorne because of their close relationship and professional admiration. So, it’s no wonder that he…
There was a king, once upon a time, Charles IV was his royal name. He had three daughters and but one son who died in childhood, so there was none male heir left, just three…
In Herman Melville’s classic, the major character Ahab is an old whale-man and captain of a ship called the Pequod. This Ahab hunts one special whale – the biggest and wildest white spermaceti, which has…
Tolkien’s theory on fairy stories and their purpose to promote elements of moral truth was known in academic circles since the 1940s. Tolkien himself acknowledged the fact that his Middle-earth novels were written as a…
Anne Bradstreet is considered a Puritan writer, if nothing else because of the place where she lived and the period when she produced her poetry. But a reader unacquainted with the sequences may ask whether…
Introduction It is not easy to define Thomism as an unequivocal school of thought because the various thinkers, who advocated it throughout its 700-year history, never identified themselves as members of a unified movement. Likewise,…
Tolkien was always very outspoken about his religion, proudly stressing his belonging to the Roman-Catholic rite. The importance of faith in his life and its effects on his writing has been explored, more so than…
Disclaimer: This article follows my article The Underlying Christianity of Tolkien’s stories The nature of good and evil is the last area of research to comment on now. Actually, a considerable number of the…
The image of Varda as a representation of Saint Mary the Virgin, Jesus’ mother, is clear. As Tolkien asserted, her character was “clearly related to Catholic devotion to [Saint] Mary” (Carpenter, 2006, p. 288), who…
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