On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis Book cover type:Paperback While his exploits and achievements

While his exploits and achievements grace the book (including the story of Amy Grant’s “Every Heartbeat” and the evergreen “In the Light”)

Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith

Released March 18

All of life is here with its moments of beauty and its times of despair and shame

and went on to become Henri Nouwen’s greatest legacy to Christians around the world

On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis Book cover type:Paperback While his exploits and achievementsThe world of J. R. R. Tolkien is filled with strange creatures, elaborately crafted lore, ancient tongues, and magic that exists only in fantasy; yet the lessons taught by hobbits and wizards speak powerfully and practically to our real lives. Courage, valor, trust, pride, greed, and jealousy these are not fictional virtues. This is the stuff of real life, the Christian life. Professor and author Louis Markos takes us on the road with Tolkien and C.