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In an age when writers and artists routinely scorned the wisdom of the past.... Tolkien's epic arrived like a bracing mountain wind, for it introduced modern readers to forms literature that are unfraid to explore truth as well as ambiguity, beauty as well as ugliness, good as well as evil, and heroism as well as cowardice.-John West
I his is our story. It is a mirror. We are fascinated by it most deeply because of its truth.... It is eternal truth made flesh.
Only a great myth can do that astonishing feat, can translate the eternal truth of good and evil into the radically other medium of a temporal story. It makes the abstract concrete, the invisible visible, the Word flesh.-Peter Kreeft
When you think of the legacy of what Tolkien had absorbed from Anglo-Saxon literature, then think of a dark and fatalistic worldview that does not fear darkness or run away from the battle. Even in defeat, what matters is mod-
-inward good-
ness— that gleams out more strongly when we are being overwhelmed and defeated.-Janet Blumberg
Tolkien argued that, far from being lies, myths were the best way of conveying truths which would otherwise be inexpressible.
We have come from God and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God.-Joseph Pearce
Tolkien's was a prophetic ministry, for he awakens the reader to the elf-lands, and woodlands, trees and beings that remind us that we are not in control, and that there is more to life than what we sleepily regard. — Kerry Dearborn
Middle-earth, with all its wizardry and monsters, is a truer picture of the real world than the worlds fantasized by existentialists and metaphysical naturalists.— Phillip Goggans”