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The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien. “A fundamentally religious and Catholic work” (Tolkien, Letter 142).

  1. One volume: 50th Anniversary one-volume edition (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) ISBN 9780618645619. Bookshop.org ↗
  2. Tolkien on his faith: The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Revised and Expanded (HarperCollins) ISBN 9780063374355. Bookshop.org ↗
  3. The Silmarillion: The Silmarillion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) ISBN 9780544338012. Bookshop.org ↗

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Also good: Holly Ordway’s Tolkien’s Faith (Word on Fire) is the best study of his Catholicism.

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