Jeffrey Bilbro is an Assistant Professor of English at Spring Arbor University in southern Michigan. His book, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature, is forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press.
Aug 18, 2014

The Taste of Strawberries: Tolkien’s Imagination of the Good

One of the reasons that Tolkien’s stories continue to inspire us is that he does something few authors are able to do: he makes goodness compelling and desirable.