is accepting submissions

If you would like to submit an article on the Catholic vision of J.R.R. Tolkien to Gazing Upon Everlasting Day, please email the code lackey by clicking here. Articles that have been reviewed and accepted will appear on the Gazing Upon Everlasting Day site with your name and information about yourself you may choose to include.

Possible topics for submissions:

• Man
  • short biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien and Inklings, friends, and influences
  • information about Tolkien's churches, homes, activities, and environs
• Myth
  • reviews of and comments on Tolkien's fiction
  • Christian and Catholic themes in Tolkien's writings, e.g. heroic self-sacrifice for others
  • Tolkien's views of myth, fairy stories, and/or subcreation and their relation to the Catholic faith
  • the relationship of pre-Christian pagan religions to Christianity
• Hobbit
  • the principle of subsidiarity in Tolkien's writings
  • anti-industrialism in Tolkien's writings
  • organic architecture in Tolkien's fiction
• Pipe Smoker
  • pipe smoking, of course
• and so forth

Articles opposed to J.R.R. Tolkien or his Catholic Christian faith will not be accepted. Articles which attempt to read Tolkien's fiction allegorically will not be accepted. Recommendations and suggestions are accepted, but may not be heeded. In the words of one Cappuchin vocations director: "You will be listened to, but you will not always be acted upon."

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