Rachel Fulton Brown | Mystic Christianity, Tolkien's Cosmogony, & The Logos of Created Worlds

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Professor Rachel Fulton Brown joins InnerVerse to talk Tolkien! In this lively discussion we explore Tolkien's mytho-mystic Christian convictions as allegorized in his great works, the Lord of the Rings and its massive legendarium. Topics include the Logos, Eros, the Gods & planets, and the purpose of evil and dissonance. What does it mean to be a creator in a created world?

In the Plus+ Extension, we examine world mountain and axis mundi symbolism, Earendil and Anglo Saxon literature, strategic philology, the unfinished sequel to the LOTR story, why civilizations fall, and the mystery of cryptid creatures and alternate humanoids of folklore.

ChaptersInside the full 2h 36m episode27 chapters

0:00Meeting Rachel Fulton Brown

5:20Is There a Tolkien Religion

9:15What Tolkien Risked to Be Catholic

16:02Mythopoeia, Tolkien's Poem for C.S. Lewis

22:07Joseph Campbell and the Single Truth

27:20Chrestos, Christos, and the Anointed Ones

37:57Lewis, the Planets, and Narnia

44:55Melkor and the Birth of Dissonance

50:38Feanor, the Silmarils, and Possession

55:50What Melkor's Music Sounds Like

1:05:44World Mountains and the Axis Mundi

1:08:37Pagan Myth Through Christian Hands

1:15:45Earendel, the Brightest of Angels

1:22:10What Philology Really Is

1:25:25Ireland and the Coptic Connection

1:29:52Phoenicians, the Internet of Antiquity

1:33:30Tolkien's Unfinished Sequel, The New Shadow

1:38:10Why Civilizations Keep Falling

1:44:52The Trinity and the Incarnation

1:53:00Worshipping the Artifact Instead of the Maker

1:56:35Letter 310 and the Purpose of Life

1:58:10Cryptids and Other Hidden Creatures

2:03:50Elves, Angels, and Demons

2:09:05Fairy Lore and Alien Abduction

2:12:55Are the Elves the Dead

2:16:33Chance's Afterthoughts on the Conversation

2:23:04Arda, the Ark, and the Earth

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Medieval historian and professor

Rachel Fulton Brown is a medieval historian and professor at the University of Chicago and author of "Mary and the Art of Prayer," who discussed Tolkien's Christian cosmology and mystic Christianity on InnerVerse.

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