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"""To understand Tolkien fully, it is necessary to grasp all aspects of his life and personality, regardless of one's own preferences or beliefs. Ordway's detailed yet accessible book will soon become an essential compass for anyone who has the desire and courage to deepen their relationship with the author of The Lord of the Rings. Instead of excluding or exploiting his religious commitments, this biography, journeying to the foundations of his humanity, neither censors Tolkien's faith nor idealizes it.""--Giuseppe Pezzini ""Tolkien's Faith is the first systematic, book-length exploration of the influence and importance of the Christian faith in Tolkien's life. It should establish that his Catholicism, as a fundamental and pervasive presence in his life, works, and concerns, was at least as significant as were his professional pursuits and war experience, and that recognising and exploring this influence in detail is at least as illuminating.""--Carl F. Hostetter Award-winning author of Tolkien and the Great War and The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien--John Garth"

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Holly Ordway is the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute and Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a Subject Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies. Her book Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages received the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.

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