By Anna Thayer

If you're in any respect accustomed to Tolkien’s paintings, then Bilbo’s cry – proclaiming the arriving of Eagles – can be no stranger to you. certainly, those plot-armoured birds are a little bit of an indicator of the grasp of Middle-Earth, one had fun over and lampooned in equivalent degree via either fanatics and critics of his writing.

But they're misunderstood. Tolkien’s Eagles can't be taken actually; they're a narrative embodiment of the unlooked-for grace, the redemptive flip – winged harbingers of Tolkien’s notion of eucatastrophe.

Anna Thayer has been interested, encouraged and led via this idea when you consider that early life. This ebook represents a eucatastrophe casebook of varieties, spanning over ten years of analysis. it's a sequence of investigations into Tolkien’s paintings that exhibit how overarching this concept was once in his writing and mindset.

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