The Secret Gnosis of Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”

First published in the U.S.A. in 1965, J.R.R. Tolkien’s great trilogy has attracted much attention over the years.  The wonderful movie versions brought about a new revival in the interest in this marvelous creation.   The philosophical and spiritual implications of these books and motion pictures is explored and elucidated.

Here are the individual titles:

• J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gnosis for our Day:  “The Lord of the Rings” and its philosophical background as grand Metaphors for existential crisis and its solution by Gnosis.  74:07  #500100
• J.R.R. Tolkien:  Mythmaker of Our Age.  An evaluation of the author and his work.  78:48 #500101
• Gnostic Themes in “The Lord of the Rings”:  Dualities of Good and Evil, Spiritual Nostalgia; Heroism, Redemption and other motifs.  83:03  #500102
• From Merlin to Gandalf:  The figure of the Gnostic Adept-Wizard.  77:11  #500103
• Archetypes of Middle Earth; Jung and Tolkien.  Correlations between Jung’s theory of the archetypes of the collective unconscious and Tolkien’s mythology of Middle-Earth.  84:57  #500104
• The Dark Tower:  Tolkien’s Mystery of Iniquity.  The once-again very timely issue of evil as expressed in the figures of Morgoth, Sauron, Saruman, the Orcs and other motifs of Tolkien.  80:20  #500105
• Aragorn and Once and Future Kings:  “Lord of the Rings” and the return of the Hero-King.  75:08  #500106
• Myth, Magic and Tolkien:  The Magic Power of the Imagination.  “The Lord of the Rings” and its relationship to world mythology, the magic of the imagination and later similar works such as those about Harry Potter.  77:44  #500107