Ralph C. Wood is a scholar of theology and English literature, with a special interest in Christian writers, mainly of fiction, including J. R. R. Tolkien...

Tolkien's legendarium, but do not appear in his narratives. The theologian Ralph C. Wood describes the Valar and Maiar as being what Christians "would call angels"...

Gandalf, one of the Maiar, resembles Odin the wanderer. The theologian Ralph C. Wood describes the Valar and Maiar as being what Christians "would call angels"...

biographical coverage. Christian scholars too admired the book, though Ralph C. Wood thought that it underplayed the importance of Tolkien's Christianity...

for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet". The theologian Ralph C. Wood describes the Valar and Maiar as being what Christians "would call angels"...

his son Ralph Wood II (1748–1795), and his grandson Ralph Wood III (1774–1801). Ralph I was the brother of Aaron Wood, father of Enoch Wood. Through his...

he was almost 600 years old. Commentators including the theologian Ralph C. Wood, and the critics Brent Nelson, Kathleen Gilligan, and Susan and Woody...

brilliant style" and the "Ainulindalë" has "organ tones". Although Ralph C. Wood called it "one of the finest and most original of [Tolkien's] writings"...

they return to at last to the familiar things they have always known." Ralph C. Wood concludes from a Christian point of view that A Walking Song references...

possible, but in any event "a fat thick plant". The Tolkien scholar Ralph C. Wood writes that the forename "Barliman" too is descriptive, hinting at "the...