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		<title>Stratford Caldecott:The Power of the Ring</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/06/26/stratford-caldecottthe-power-of-the-ring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avall&#243;nn&#235;. Fifth Age. &#8211; Stratford Caldecott, in his excellent work The Power of the Ring, explores &#8220;The Spiritual Vision Behind The Lord of the Rings.&#8221;
In his introduction, Caldecott explains not only Tolkien&#8217;s purposes for the book but also the Oxford professor&#8217;s feelings about the times in which he lived. It is to be remembered that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gleanings from Birzer (3): Myths: Pagan and True</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/06/24/gleanings-from-birzer-3-myths-pagan-and-true/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avall&#243;nn&#235;. Fifth Age. &#8211; In a chapter entitled &#8220;Myth and Sub-creation&#8221; in J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s Sanctifying Myth, Bradley Birzer explores Tolkien&#8217;s beliefs regarding myths, both pagan and true.  &#8220;Tolkien mythologized nearly everything in his life,&#8221; Birzer writes.  In more familiar and (I believe) accurate terms, it might be said that Tolkien saw the spiritual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gleanings from Birzer (2): Tolkien and Faerie</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/06/19/gleanings-from-birzer-2-tolkien-and-faerie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avall&#243;nn&#235;. Fifth Age. &#8211;   Professor Bradley Birzer explores Tolkien&#8217;s perspective on faerie (myth), truth, and man in his introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s Sanctifying Myth.
To enter faerie &#8211; that is, a sacramental and liturgical understanding of creation &#8211; is to open oneself to the gradual discovery of beauty, truth, and excellence. . . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gleanings from Middle-earth: Bradley J. Birzer (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/06/17/gleanings-from-middle-earth-jrr-tolkiens-sanctifying-myth-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/06/17/gleanings-from-middle-earth-jrr-tolkiens-sanctifying-myth-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avall&#243;nn&#235;. Fifth Age. &#8211; One of the good things about owning and having read so many books (30+) by or about Tolkien and Middle-earth is having the immediate opportunity to re-read them from time to time.  Upon doing so, I find that I have forgotten some things while other observations of the various authors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Path of a D&#250;nadan</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/03/24/the-path-of-a-dnadan/</link>
		<comments>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/03/24/the-path-of-a-dnadan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(See also &#8220;Being a D&#250;nadan&#8221; and  &#8220;Wandering in Our Wilderness&#8221;)
Avall&#243;nn&#235;. Fifth Age. &#8211;   A D&#250;nadan&#8217;s life is troubling and troublesome, at once troubled and troubling.  It seems that the two are inseparable.
The conflict arises because the path, mission, or life&#8217;s work of a D&#250;nadan is troublesome or troubling to others; this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being a D&#250;nadan</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/03/23/140/</link>
		<comments>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/03/23/140/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(See also  &#8220;Wandering in Our Wilderness&#8221; and  &#8220;The Path of a D&#250;nadan&#8221;)
Avall&#243;nn&#235;. Fifth Age. &#8211;  So who exactly are we, this arrogant-sounding group of Christians that I liken to the D&#250;nedain of the Third Age of Middle-earth?  What is a Modern Day (Fifth &#8211; or Sixth &#8211; Age) D&#250;nadan?  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wandering in Our Wilderness</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/03/22/wandering-in-our-wilderness/</link>
		<comments>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/03/22/wandering-in-our-wilderness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(See also &#8220;Being a D&#250;nadan&#8221; and  &#8220;The Path of a D&#250;nadan&#8221;)
Avall&#243;nn&#235;. Fifth Age. &#8211;  It may seem to be more than a little self-aggrandizing to refer to myself as a Modern-Day D&#250;nadan but I do so nonetheless.  I will hasten, however, to (a) make clear that I do not lay claim to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lord of the Rings (Foreword)</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/01/11/the-lord-of-the-rings-foreword/</link>
		<comments>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2007/01/11/the-lord-of-the-rings-foreword/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avall&#243;nn&#235;. First Age. &#8211;  Tales should begin at the beginning if ever they are to have an end, and so too must this account of my own time with the Maia Tolkien and our time in Middle-earth begin.  But, while the accounts recorded here are true, the impressions and reflections birthed by them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Sabbatical</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2006/09/05/on-sabbatical/</link>
		<comments>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2006/09/05/on-sabbatical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should like to say that I am immensely fond of you all, and that the past few years is too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable bloggers.  I don&#8217;t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War In Which We Find Ourselves</title>
		<link>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2006/07/08/the-war-in-which-we-find-ourselves/</link>
		<comments>http://lordofthekingdom.com/2006/07/08/the-war-in-which-we-find-ourselves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phaedrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Dickerson, in his first chapter of Following Gandalf (FG), defends J.R.R. Tolkien from the curious &#8211; not to mention spurious &#8211; charge that the author glorfies war in his history of Middle-earth and especially in the War of the Ring.  In this post, I will summarizes Dickerson&#8217;s arguments &#8211; which sufficiently refute the [...]]]></description>
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