Pearce before 2014
Joseph Pearce (born 1961) is an English Catholic literary scholar and author who has frequently written concerning C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and G.K. Chesterton. He resides in the United States, and is a co-editor with Peter Kreeft of the international St. Austin Review.
Pearce finished writing Tolkien: Man and Myth in 1998, compiled and edited Tolkien: A Celebration in 1999, and wrote Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of The Hobbit (2012) followed later by Frodo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings (2015).
In 2002 and 2003, he wrote forewords to Bradley J. Birzer's J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth and Richard Purtill's J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality & Religion.
In 2009 Pearce became the host of the show The Quest for Shakespeare on EWTN.
Articles (selected)[]
- "Tolkien and the Catholic Literary Revival" in his book Tolkien: A Celebration (1999)
- Entries "Christ", "Church of England", "Darkness", "Heaven", "Incarnation", "Morgoth and Melkor", "Redemption", and "Saints" in Michael D. C. Drout's J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (2006)
- "The Lord of the Rings and the Catholic Understanding of Community" in Paul E. Kerry's The Ring and the Cross (2011)
- "Tolkien Shows Us Ourselves", at The Imaginative Conservative (2021)
- "To Say the Name ‘Tolkien’ Is to Tell a Story", for National Catholic Register (August 2021)
- "Walking with Chesterton and Lewis (and Tolkien)", for National Catholic Register (2022)
- "The Lord of the Rings in a Nutshell", for Crisis Magazine (2022)
External links[]
- Profile at Thomas More College
- Personal website
- Interview on The Tolkien Road (ep.99 - "Christianity & LOTR") with John Carswell