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As believers, our responses to works of art, be they
written, painted, or filmed, should necessarily be influenced by our faith. I
enjoy one church’s online podcast of “Film and Theology” because it encourages
us to view things in light of God’s revelation and to appreciate beauty and art
as man’s creativity reflecting God’s creativity. Jim Ware’s book, Finding God in the Hobbit, does just
that superbly.
This book carefully considers passages from The Hobbit in light of their context and
role in the whole narrative of the entire Middle Earth canon and considers how
the story reflects God’s story, how Bilbo Baggins unwittingly plays a crucial
role in the ultimate destruction of not only Smaug, but the evil Lord Sauron
himself, and how we too are created by God to fulfill purposes in His grand
design that we ourselves may never be fully aware of.
This book is written well. I don’t say that about many
books. And the audio version is narrated by Simon Vance, a veteran narrator,
and his light English accent somehow makes the book seem more authentically
Tolkein. Though this book came out in 2006, the audio book version is out just
in time for the 2012 film adaptation of The
Hobbit. I highly recommend that both The
Hobbit and Finding God in the Hobbit be
on your reading list in the immediate future. It’s that good.
I received this audio book from christianaudio for purposes
of review.
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