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I am a fellow Catholic and lover of Beauty and the arts! I am writing to you because I was doing some online research for a paper I am writing about the power of beauty, specifically music, to evangelize. While I was online, an article you wrote for the Register came up, and I loved it! I am using Via Pulchritudinis as a main source, but I wanted to ask if you have any ideas of good sources on this theme. I have to write 50 pages, and I\u2019m just getting started!!! Thank you so much for your time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m much use here, but I would recommend Dorothy L. Sayers The Mind of the Maker<\/em><\/a> and Robert Farrar Capon\u2019s beautiful and effervescent book The Supper of the Lamb<\/em><\/a>. Also, Tolkien\u2019s ideas on subcreation in his essay \u201cOn Fairy Stories\u201d<\/a> () and his great poem \u201cMythopoeia<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n
Speaking of music, it is interesting that, for Tolkien, music is the primal language of creation. Eru (aka Iluvatar aka God) sings creation into being and language is seen as a kind of declension or falling away from the primal goodness of music. The rebellion of Morgoth is a dissonance. Good characters participate in the Song. Tom Bombadil, even in his everyday conversation, speaks in a meter. Bad characters turn the song to dissonance and ugliness. Good ones love song, even if it not the exalted music of the elves and is only simple rhymes of a Sam Gamgee.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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