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OF HOBBITS AND THE GRASP FOR POWER: Premier McGowan and Boromir*

by A.B. Stuart

Some friends and I have been revisiting Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings of late, and it has, like the time before and the time before that, been a highly salutary and edifying experience. The author has found a way to appeal to the metaphysical longings that all men have, even if they do not themselves recognise or acknowledge the higher truths of their humanity.

The appeal is largely in the splendour of the imagination and the warm embrace of the good of creation, with su…

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