“Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The,” 40
Aeneid (Virgil), 22
afterlife, 139
Ainulindalë, 90
Ainur, 86
alchemy, 96
Alexandrina, Blessed, 66–68
allegory
fairy stories, 7–10
formal (crude), 4–6
intertextuality, 6
meanings of, 3
parable, 3–4
of power, 2
Allied Powers, 98
anaphons, 101
Anborn, 129
Andropov, Yuri, 58
Anglo-Saxons, 19–20
Angmar, 117
Annunciation, 26
antrhopos, 15
April Fool’s Day, 27
Aragorn, 61–62, 108–9, 111, 113–14, 137–38
Arathorn, 109
archangel Michael, 86
Arda, 89
Argonath, 103
Arthur, King, 111
Arujo, Gomez de, 67
Augustine, Saint, 57
Baggins, Bilbo, 30
Ballad of the White Horse (Chesterton), 80
Balrog, 75
Bede, 21–22
Beornings, 69
Beowulf, 21–26
Big Brother, 99
Bilbo
act of pity and mercy, 126–28
discovery of the Ring, 34, 125–26
moral choices, 37
voyage to Undying Lands, 139
Blessed Virgin Mary, 13, 52, 114, 116–19
Boethius, 4
Bonnie Prince Charlie, 112
Bunyan, John, 4
Castel Gandolfo, 111
Catherine of Genoa, Saint, 68
Catherine of Siena, Saint, 68
Catholic Church, 2, 60, 65, 110
Catholicism, 1–11, 20, 95, 138
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 28
Chesterton, G. K., 7–8, 33, 80, 138
Christ, 74–75
Beowulf and, 23–26
birthday of, 136
Frodo and, 137
parables, 3–4
Virgin Mary and, 117
Christmas Day, 136
Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis), 91
Church Militant, 119
Cirith Ungol, 90
Claudius, King, 85
Cold War, 98
colors, 56–57
confession, 60–61
Consolation of Philosophy, The (Boethius), 4
Corpus Christi, 139
cram, 69
Cross-Roads, 102
crude allegory, 4–6
da Costa, Alexandrina Maria, 66–68
Dante, 21
Dark Lord, 48, 57, 83, 99, 102
Dark Tower, 54
Darwinian man, 14
Déagol, 34
December 25, 136
De Pascha Computus, 27
Divina Commedia (Dante), 21
domination, 96
dyscatastrophe, 81
Eä, 75
Edoras, 85
Edward the Confessor, Saint, 113
Elizabeth II, Queen, 112
Elrond, 53–54, 56, 60, 115, 139
elves
immortality of, 50–52
subcreative gifts of, 92–93
Ents, 99
eucatastrophe, 81–82
Eucharistic host, 65–66
eustrophe, 82
evangelium, 81
exiles, 52–53
Eye of Sauron, 98
fairy stories, 7–10
as mirror of man, 11
Tolkien on, 9–11
felix culpa, 82
Fellowship of the Ring, 58, 73
Fernsehen, 102
Finrod, 52
Forbidden Pool, 129
formal allegory, 4–6
Frodo
arrival at Cross-Roads, 102–3
Boromir and, 61
as a Christ figure, 122
farewell to Middle-earth, 139–41
Ring and, 33–38
stone kings of Argonath and, 102–4
Tom Bombadil and, 45
trek to Mount Doom, 121–33
wearing the Ring, 32
Führer, 99
Galadriel, 13, 49, 53, 114–16, 139
Gandalf
on consequences of Bilbo’s act of pity and mercy, 128
coronation of Aragorn and, 137
death of, 78–80
on death of Gollum, 132–33
encounter with Saruman, 56–57
exposition of Ring’s power, 29–38
Gates of Moria and, 73
on Middle-earth’s new beginning, 136
moral test, 77
resurrection as Gandalf the White, 110
on Sauron’s motives, 83–84
supernatural gifts of, 94–95
voyage to Undying Lands, 139
Garden of Eden, 44
Gates of Moria, 73–75
Glorious Revolution, 112
Gollum, 29, 33–34, 37–38, 56, 64, 125–26, 130–32
good art, 92
Good Friday, 136
Good News, 74
Gospel of St. John, 21
Great Divorce, The (Lewis), 132
Hall of Fire, 115
Hamlet, 85
High Elves, 100
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Bede), 21–22
History of Middle-earth, The, 89
Boromir and, 61
childlike wisdom of, 90
Creator and, 104
encounter with elves, 52
in Fellowship of the Ring, 52
natural gifts of, 93
Phial of Galadriel and, 115–16
Ring and, 32
sun and, 9
Tolkien and, 14
Tom Bombadil and, 44–47
Holy Spirit, 76
Homer, 6
homo superbus (proud man), 17
homo viator (traveling man), 15–17, 64
host, Eucharistic, 65–66
infernal man, 64
in persona Christi, 61–62
intertextuality, 6
Isaac, 27
Isaiah, Book of, 88
Isengard, 98–100
Isildur, 34
Israel, 27
Istari, 94
Jacobites, 111–12
James II, King, 112
Jesus Christ. See Christ
Kilby, Clyde S., 76
kings, 107–14
Knox, Ronald, 19
Lady Philosophy, 4
Lake-Town, 30
Last Alliance, 54
“Leaf by Niggle,” 91
Leo XIII, Pope, 137
Lord of the Rings, The
as allegory, 1–4
Catholicism and, 2, 13–14, 136–37
death and immortality in, 49–52
kingship in, 107–14
magic in, 91–105
queenship in, 114–19
lore-master, 74
Lothlórien, 92
Macbeth, 113
magic, 91–105
Maiar, 94
Manwë, 86
March 25
Middle-earth’s New Year, 136
significance of, 26–27
Mary Magdalene, 62
materialism, 8–9
memento mori, 50
Middle-earth, 19–28
exiles in, 53
Frodo’s farewell to, 139
man and, 15–17
as Morgoth’s Ring, 89–90
overthrow of evil in, 136
path of virtue in, 97
Sam’s virtuous choice and future of, 130
Sauron and, 83
wizards in, 77–78
Minas Tirith, 55, 59–60, 83, 100
Mines of Moria, 78
Mirour de l’Omme, 11
Mithrandir, 129
“Monsters and the Critics, The” (Tolkien), 22
Mordor, 30, 55, 57, 59–60, 73, 98–99, 102–3, 121
Morgoth, 86–90
Morgoth’s Ring, 89
Mount Doom, 66, 121, 125, 130, 135
Mozart, 94
“Myothopoeia,” 92
Napoleon of the Notting Hill, The (Chesterton), 138
Nazgûl, 117
Nazis, 98–99
New Eve, 117
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 124
Nietzscheanism, 124
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 99, 102
Noldor, 86
“Nun’s Priest’s Tale” (Chaucer), 27
Odysseus, 15
Old Man Willow, 39
Old Testament, 86
One Sin, 85
“On Fairy Stories,” 9–11, 91, 105
Original Sin, 28
Orthodoxy (Chesterton), 7
Orwell, George, 99
other-worldliness, 4
Our Lady, 116
Our Lord, 27
Overman, 124
parable, 3–4
paradisal man, 64
paradise, 141
Paul, Saint, 64
Phial of Galadriel, 114–16
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 64
Pieta, 103
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 4
Pilgrim’s Regress, The (Lewis), 4
prodigal son, 4
purgatorial man, 64
queens, 114–19
Reagan, Ronald, 58
realism, 9
Redemption, 82
Resurrection, 82
Revelation, 76
Ring
betrayal of its possessors, 34
Boromir and, 59
darkening of, 28
power and history of, 33–34
as synonymous with sin, 32
Tom Bombadil and, 45
Rivendell, 83
Sackville-Bagginses, 30
saints, 21, 64, 66, 68, 95, 115, 139
Salve Regina (Catholic prayer), 10, 52–53, 114, 141
Samwise Gamgee
act of pity and mercy, 130
arrival at Cross-Roads, 102–3
encounter with elves, 52
return to family, 141
trek to Mount Doom, 122–23
Saruman, 56–57, 60, 94–95, 99–100, 110
Satan, 23, 27, 58, 85–90, 115, 117
Sauron, 88–89
as Dark Lord, 57
fall of, 136
motives of, 83
Ring and, 34–36
servants of, 117
subcreative power of, 95
victory of Last Alliance and, 54
sauros, 111
scientism, 96
Second Coming, 113
Secret Fire, 75–77
Shakespeare, William, 6
Shire, 30, 74, 98, 121–22, 138
Silmarillion, The, 40, 58, 75, 85
Smaug, 30
Superman, 124
technology, 92
television, 102
Theos, 101
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 52–53, 139
Thor, 101
Tolkien, J. R. R., 19–28
“Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The,” 40
on crude allegory, 4–6
description of himself as hobbit, 14
on The Lord of the Rings as an allegory, 1–3
love of Anglo-Saxons, 19–20
“Monsters and the Critics, The,” 22
“On Fairy Stories,” 9–11, 91, 105
Tom Bombadil, 39–48
Übermensch, 124
Undying Lands, 139
Uruk-hai, 99
Vala, 115
viaticum, 65–66
Virgil, 22
Virgin Mary, 13, 52, 114, 116–19
Virgo potens, 119
Voyage of the Dawn Trader, The (Lewis), 9
“Waste Land, The” (Eliot), 6
Waugh, Evelyn, 6
Witch-king, 117
Word of God, 26
worldiness, 4
World War II, 98