One of Tolkien’s key themes throughout his work is subcreation, the idea that as beings created by a creator God, we (or his invented elves and other races) are also by nature creative.  But there are many hints that the pinnacle of this impulse is actually the simple act of bringing new life into the world.

For my video on subcreation as developed in “On Fairy Stories,” click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMG5HhKK50

For my video on subcreation as a theme in Tolkien’s stories, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOpbrkRe3QY

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