Eucatastrophe and the Small: Tolkien’s Theology of Hope
For my Momma and Dad, my beloved parents, who taught me that wonder is a way of seeing, that work is sacred, and that love, when lived daily and without fanfare, is the most enduring form of grace. Your lives are the music through which my own song finds voice. This is for you. “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair… and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring The Subtle Hand of Providence "Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium is often praised for its linguistic brilliance, mythopoeic scope, and moral clarity, but beneath the dragons, rings, and ruined towers lies a quieter framework, shaped less by spectacle than by enduring moral design. Tolkien, a devout Catholic and lifelon...
