Mark Eddy Smith
Autor von Tolkiens ganz gewöhnliche Helden : Tugenden und Werte in "Der Herr der Ringe"
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Mark Eddy Smith is a writer who grew up in rural New Hampshire (which is not so different from the Shire). He is a graphic designer at InterVarsity Press and currently resides in Oak Park, Illinois. Mark has read The Lord of the Rings more than a dozen times
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Unfortunately the author intends this as an evangelical tool for Christianity and that feels extremely tacked on. After some decent discussion of the content of Tolkien's work, you get a tacked on bit about how this is just like such and such a passage or what Jesus meant here and there or how Gandalf is either like Paul or like Jesus or like an angel in this or that section. The worst part is that it's fairly clear the author draws a lot of insight from and is invested in Tolkien - and the Christianity is forced into the story as if to justify how his own interest in a work of fiction might be greater than his interest in the book of his faith.… (mehr)