By Michelle Hines , University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 10-11-06
Dr. Ralph Wood.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - What do Frodo and Gandalf have to tell us about the most alarming issue of our time?
A Tolkien scholar will visit Oct. 26 to lecture on “J.R.R. Tolkien: Writer for Our Time of Terror.”
Dr. Ralph Wood, a professor of theology and literature at Baylor University, will speak at 7 p.m. in the Alexander Room, Elliott University Center. His lecture, sponsored by the UNCG English department’s Speakers Series, is free and open to the public.
Tolkien wrote such classics as “The Hobbit” and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. His works have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity following the release of the recent “Lord of the Rings” films.
Wood taught from 1971 to 1997 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, where he held the John Allen Easley Professorship in Religion. He speaks and publishes extensively on the “Inklings” J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, on the British mystery writers G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers and P.D. James and also on the Southern fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy.
His most recent books include “The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth” and “Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South.” He also serves as an editor-at-large for “The Christian Century,” and on the editorial board of “The Flannery O’Connor Review.”
For more information, contact Dr. Christopher Hodgkins at (336) 334-4691.
