Though intended for a juvenile audience, with an extra dollop of whimsy mingled with eucatastrophic reality, The Hobbit presents an adventure whose protagonist is motivated by moral reasoning, rather than […]
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Dear Friends, Today, September 27, 2021, marks the official anniversary of the founding of Voyage Comics! It’s been a full three years since we embarked on our “voyage” to create quality, faith-filled
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Like J.R.R. Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings, his prequel, The Hobbit, is a “fundamentally religious and Catholic work”[1] that is saturated with Christian elements and offers a
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As a Middle-earth aficionado, I have read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. While these books are creative and profound, my personal favorite Tolkien work [so far this
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One of the most intriguing aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is his choice of the ring bearer. Tolkien had many characters to choose from, especially among
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J.R.R. Tolkien began The Lord of the Rings as a sequel to his smash-hit fantasy novel The Hobbit. The new book soon took on a life of its own, becoming
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“To love is to will the good of the another.” –St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I.ii.26 This principle is seen clearly in the redemption arc of Loki, both the original MCU version
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Bam! Smack! Pow! You see the words jump up on the screen, and your favorite crime-fighting team clobbers some crazy criminals trying to disrupt the society of Gotham. Though an
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In a previous article for this blog, I mentioned that I’ve been making my way through The Dragonriders of Pern, Anne McCaffrey’s expansive series of science-fantasy novels. The planet of
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St. Maximilian Kolbe is most well-known for his example of self-sacrifice in Auschwitz, where he convinced the Nazi soldiers to kill him, instead of another prisoner who had a family.
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