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Trees, Chainsaws, and the Vision of Paradise in Tolkien

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  • ABOUT Tom Shippey

    Tom Shippey, Ph.D., is a medieval literature scholar and retired SLU English professor. Shippey is regarded as one of the leading experts on Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, having written two books and featured in six documentaries about Tolkien.

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Click play to listen. Recorded on November 9, 2002.

A scholar of Old English and J.R.R. Tolkien’s contemporary, Tom Shippey reminds us that beneath their popular, cinema-friendly exterior, his colleague’s works amount to a serious meditation on Christian religion and pagan mythologies.

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