Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
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Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
In Defence of Frodo: The Trial and Heroism of Self-Sacrifice
Risking Enchantment
1 hour 44 minutes 17 seconds
7 months ago
In Defence of Frodo: The Trial and Heroism of Self-Sacrifice
"I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
In this episode, Jacob Moran returns to join me on a dive back into Middle-Earth, this time to explore the character of Frodo Baggins. Even among fans of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo comes in for a deal of criticism and even maligning, usually centred around his likeability and his failure at the end of the quest. Yet to misunderstand Frodo is to misunderstand a crucial part of what Tolkien is saying about heroism and virtue. In this episode Rachel and Jacob discuss Frodo's qualities, his example of self-sacrifice and his willingness to lay down even his likeability in order to save his friends and his home.
Hosts: Rachel Sherlock and Jacob Moran
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Works Mentioned:
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, ed Humphrey Carpenter
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
What We're Enjoying at the Moment:
Rachel: Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Jacob: DnD campaign planning
Risking Enchantment
Risking Enchantment is a discussion about beauty in art and culture, and its place in the Catholic faith. The show is hosted by Rachel Sherlock, and she is joined every week by a friend to dive into a particular theme or topic. We discuss literature, music, poetry, art, architecture and more, and talk about how experiencing these can hint at the transcendental and better inform our Catholic faith and how we live it out.
