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Michael Ward is a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, and author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford University Press).
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Like me, if you know anything about Tolkien’s life, it is probably owing to the work of Humphrey Carpenter, who cornered the market in Tolkien scholarship in its early years, producing both the first major […]

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