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An Augustinian Understanding of The Two Towers: In Honor of a "The Long Deserved Party"
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Friday, January 3, 2003
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DESCRIPTION
In honor of the 111 Anniversary of the birth of J.R.R. Tolkien and the release of the second film adaptation of the Two Towers by director Peter Jackson (released December 18, 2002), Dr. Birzer lectures on the Two Towers from an Augustinian perspective. In 1958,at a Dutch bash for him, Tolkien told the audience: "I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron. But I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentle hobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees."
Dr. Bradley J. Birzer |
SPEAKER/PERFORMER INFORMATION
Bradley Birzer is Assistant Professor of History at Hillsdale College. A Senior Fellow with the Center for the American Idea in Houston, he has written extensively on Tolkien, James Fenimore Cooper, the American Frontier and American Indians, and Christopher Dawson.
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