Webinar hosted by the Oxford Interfaith Forum, International Interfaith Reading Group on Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts, featuring Orthodox Christian Studies Center Co-Director Aristotle Papanikolaou.
Continue readingMemory and Commemoration in The Lord of the Rings: An Orthodox Christian Perspective
by Stavros Piperis Late in J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic The Lord of the Rings, Samwise Gamgee finds himself in darkness and likely near death. Enemies have captured his dearest friend, and Sam lies alone, shivering and impossibly far from home. He tries to make sense of the situation, but “even of the days he had quite…
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