In a panoramic sense the theme of The Lord of the Rings signifies man as homo viator, i.e. journeying man or travelling man or man on a quest.This echoes the Christian understanding of the life of
Lecture "A Theology of Film: Finding God in The Lord of the Rings" presented by Joe Harder. Movies play a significant role in many peopleβs lives today, give The First World War laid waste to a continent and brought about the end of innocence β and the end of faith. Unlike a generation of young writers who lost faith in the God of the Bible, however, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis found that the Great War deepened their spiritual quest. Ben Rothstein/Amazon Studios. Just as Tolkien entrusted his quest to Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, Amazon chose two unlikely newcomers. McKay and Payne are high school friends from northernThe legendarium (also called Tolkien Mythology, of simply, his mythology) is the corpus of connected, fantastical stories imagined and written by J.R.R. Tolkien, making up the history of Arda, and the entire extensive background to The Lord of the Rings. This legendarium was developed in evolving, complex stages over almost six decades of Tolkien's life. Before the induction of The Hobbit into