Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard
10 best books like Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams, Dante Alighieri, John Bunyan, Walter Wangerin, Robert Siegel, and Hannah Hurnard (Rolland Hein): Welsh Fairy Tales, Reader and Educator Guide to "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", The Mountain of Marvels: A Celtic Tale of Magic, Retold from the Mabinogion, Merlin, Darkin: A Journey East, King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero, Chasing the Bard, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-Earth, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature, Venom of the Serpent's Cunning
| Author | William Elliot Griffis |
| ISBN | 1151290572 |
The author of this retold collection of Welsh fairy tales was an American of Welsh ancestry. In his introduction he pointedly gives thanks to 'those inheritances from the world of imagination, for which the Cymric Land was famous, even before the days of either Anglo-Saxon or Norman.'
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The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are some of the most widely read and beloved books of the twentieth century. In December 2012, the man who brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s magical worlds to life with The Lord of the Rings movies, Peter Jackson, will release the first of three film adaptations of The Hobbit,...
| Author | Aaron Shepard |
| ISBN | 1620355418 |
A thousand years ago, in the Celtic kingdoms of Wales, great lords gave great feasts for their fighting men and courtiers. In timbered halls, for days on end, heaps of meat and bread were washed down with gallons of beer and mead. And in between the meals, when bellies were stuffed and spirits high, the...
| Author | Norma Lorre Goodrich |
| ISBN | 0531150607 |
"The man, Merlin/Saint Dubricius, a wondrous prodigy, has even now supplied history with a retrospective pattern of crisis and human response the we treasure, like his voice form the so very long ago, speaking as a survivor of terrible perils and penance."
My goal today was to finish this...
ASIN B00902HZZ2 moved to the more recent edition here and then here
The greatest dark wizard, long thought dead, has risen anew; in his wake marches the vast army of the Feral Brood. None could have foreseen the total evil set to descend upon Darkin.
A long age of peace has left the land...
| Author | John Matthews |
| ISBN | 0517224445 |
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have captured the world's imagination since medieval times. The tales of King Arthur are rooted in history, but over the years the facts have become shrouded in myth and mystery. In this beautifully illustrated book Arthurian expert John Matthews explores...
| Author | Philippa Ballantine |
| ISBN | 1896944175 |
Born into the human world with a gift; a gift that brings him to the attention of powers both dark and light from the World of the Fey, it is his burden to defend all the world.
Sive, the goddess of battle, hopes that he may be able to change the fate of her people.The Fey are dying, killed by something...
| Author | Ralph C. Wood |
| ISBN | 0664226108 |
Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age—absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to Tolkien because here, in this magical kingdom,...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0156027682 |
“In life and art both, as it seems to me, we are always trying to catch in our net of successive moments something that is not successive . . . But I think it is sometimes done—or very, very nearly done—in stories.”
C.S. Lewis is widely known for his fiction, especially his stories of science...
| Author | L.R.W. Lee |
| ISBN | 1494730162 |
"This series has everything a kid could want, action, adventure, magic, excitement and mystery!" - Erik Weibel, This Kid Reviews Books (Erik is 12)
Eleven-year-old Andy Smithson returns to Oomaldee to retrieve the second ingredient needed to break a 500-year-old curse enacted to punish...
| Author | Michael Ward |
| ISBN | 0195313879 |
For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie...
Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition
| Author | Donald T. Williams |
| ISBN | 0805440186 |
An odd book. Williams seems to be stuck in the middle of attempting to describe the works of Chesterton, Lewis and Tolkien while at the same time writing about the human condition as seen from the Christian perspective. This gets him lost, at times, writing very simple descriptions of the plots and in...
The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
| Author | Diana Pavlac Glyer |
| ISBN | 0873389913 |
Until I read this book, Humphrey Carpenter's Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends, published nearly thirty years ago, was the most comprehensive treatment of the group that I had ever encountered. It wasn't all that comprehensive, being focused mainly on C.S....
| Author | Verlyn Flieger |
| ISBN | 0873387449 |
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A collection of stories,...
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
| Author | Humphrey Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0395276284 |
Overall, it’s worth reading if you are studying Lewis. He does talk about the other men (for example, there were also some interesting details about Warnie and John Wain that I hadn’t seen before). But it’s half an Inklings discussion, and half a biography of C. S. Lewis. The author admits this...
Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis
| Author | Douglas Gresham |
| ISBN | 0060634472 |
Including the True Story of the Remarkable Love Affair between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
There has probably never been a less likely couple: she, an American divorcee and the mother of two young boys; he, an Oxford don and confirmed bachelor who inhabited an eccentric household with his brother,...
Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life
The author of over fifty books, including Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle is internationally acclaimed for her literary skills and her ability to translate intangible things of the spirit-- both human and divine--into tangible concepts through story. In Madeleine L'Engle...
| Author | Sarah Arthur |
| ISBN | 1414301316 |
2005 Logos Bookstores Award winner for Best Youth Book
The author of Walking with Frodo takes readers on an adventure of faith with this devotional that relates themes from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit to living the Christian life. Unlike the fateful quest Frodo was asked to carry out, Bilbo's...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0008181241 |
An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. He influenced nearly everyone who was a major twentieth century writer...
