The Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work features essays about matters of Christianity, Catholicism, and paganism in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. Compiled by Paul E. Kerry and Sandra Miesel, it was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in July 2011 and reprinted in June 2013.
One essay deals with Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. On the whole, the collection greatly resembles Paul E. Kerry's earlier work, The Ring and the Cross.
Essays[]
- Introduction by Sandra Miesel: "Exploring Tolkien's Universe"
- Matthew Dickerson, "Water, Ecology, and Spirituality in Tolkien's Middle-earth"
- Roger Ladd, "Divine Contagion - On the Nature of Power in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings"
- Anne C. Petty, "Reflections of Christendom in the Mythopoeic Iconography of Middle-earth"
- Glen Robert Gill, "Biblical Archetypes in The Lord of the Rings"
- Jared Lobdell, "Ymagynatyf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Roman Catholicism, Catholic Theology, Religion in The Lord of the Rings"
- Julian Tim Morton Eilmann, "I am the Song: Music, Poetry, and the Transcendental in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth"
- John Warwick Montgomery, "Tolkien: Lord of the Occult?"
- Robert Lazu, "The Fantastic Secret of Tolkien's Fairy Tales: Literature and Jesuit Spiritual Exercises"
- Sandra Miesel, "Life-Giving Ladies: Women in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien"
- Colin Duriez, "Where Two or Three Are Gathered: Tolkien and the Inklings"
- Russell Dalton, "Peter Jackson, Evil, and the Temptations of Film at the Cracks of Doom"
- Christopher Garbowski, "Songs of Innocence and Experience, or, What Remains of Tolkien's 'Catholic' Tale in Peter Jackson's The Lord of Rings"