What would Tolkien have thought of the Lord of the Rings Films?
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Show Notes
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films are back in theaters this month to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the premiere of The Fellowship of the Ring. The trilogy is one of the most critically and financially film series of all time – but would Tolkien have accepted it as a faithful adaption of his novels? Austin Freeman joins us.
Further Reading
Book: Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth
Guest Info
Austin M. Freeman is the chair of apologetics at Houston Christian University. He is the author of Tolkien Dogmatics (Lexham Press) and editor of Tolkien among the Theologians (Walking Tree Press), Theology, Fantasy, & Imagination (Lexington Press), and has published many other works on theology and literature.
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