Introduction
Douglas Estes
Part I: Aman
Chapter 1: Freedom and Fidelity: Improvisation in the Ainulindalë
Bradley K. Broadhead
Chapter 2: “When Things Are in Danger, Someone Must Give Them Up”: Redemption and Ecology in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Alison Milbank
Chapter 3:Critiquing Tolkien’s Theology
Austin M. Freeman
Chapter 4: In the Brilliant Darkness of a Hidden Silence: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Apophatic Tendencies
Douglas Estes
Chapter 5: Gandalf, Sauron, Melian, and the Balrog as Angels: A Study of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Maiar in the Context of Biblical Angelology
Charlie Trimm
Part II: Erebor
Chapter 6: The Marian Valkyrie: Tolkien’s Theology of the Heroic Feminine
Lisa Coutras
Chapter 7: Songs of Light and Darkness: Theological Imagination and Metaphor in J.R.R. Tolkien
Beth M. Stovell
Chapter 8: Christianity and Paganism in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings: A Typology Based on Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture
Allan M. de Novaes, Milton L. Torres, and João Fernando O. Barboza
Chapter 9: Perceiving the Material and Immaterial in Middle-earth
Adam B. Shaeffer
Chapter 10: A Chance for Metanarrative to Prove its Quality
Jeremy M. Rios
Part III: Ithilien
Chapter 11: “An Encouraging Thought”: The Interplay of Providence and Free Will in Middle-earth
Devin Brown
Chapter 12: The Redemptive Power of Love: Arwen as the Anti-Eve in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings
Julie Loveland Swanstrom
Chapter 13: Spiritual Sloth and Diligence in Tolkien’s Work
Martina Juričková
Chapter 14:Evil and the Fall into Violence in Tolkien’s Mythopoesis
John C. McDowell
Chapter 15: A Far Green Country: The Eschatology of Tolkien’s Middle-earth
Donald T. Williams
About the Contributors