Between Faith and Fiction

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Between Faith and Fiction:
Tolkien and the Powers of His World: proceedings of the Arda symposium at the Second Northern Tolkien Festival, Oslo, August 1997
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EditorNils Ivar Agøy
PublisherUppsala: Arda Society
Released1998
Pagesxii, 91
ISBN9197350001
SeriesArda special (vol. 1)

Between Faith and Fiction: Tolkien and the Powers of His World collects the proceedings of the Arda symposium at the Second Northern Tolkien Festival in Oslo, August 1997.[1]

Contents[edit | edit source]

  • "All in one, one in all" (Marjorie Burns)
  • "The fall and man's mortality : an investigation of some theological themes in J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth'" (Nils Ivar Agøy)
  • "Whose myth is it?" (Verlyn Flieger)
  • "On entering the same river twice : mythology and theology in the Silmarillion corpus" (Kaj André Apeland)
  • "Sub-creator and Creator : Tolkien and the design of the one" (Daniel Timmons)
  • "'Old human', or 'The voice in our hearts': J.R.R. Tolkien on the origin of language" (Maria Kuteeva)

From the Preface[edit | edit source]

"The Second Northern Tolkien Festival took place at the University of Oslo ... August 8. -10., 1997, hosted by the Tolkien Society of Norway. It included a scholarly symposium arranged in co-operation with ... the Arda Society over the general theme Ainur: Divine and Semi-Divine Powers in Tolkien's World ... six of the papers are now collected in the present publication ... followed by abstracts in Norwegian"

References

  1. Between faith and fiction at WorldCat.org (accessed 29 October 2011)