Maximillian Whelan

“Strangely Familiar”: Tolkien’s Notion of Fantasy, Creation, and the Anthropocentric in Tarkovsky’s Solaris

J. R. R. Tolkien’s notion of fantasy is intriguing and invites conversation with other art forms and theologies of art. For Tolkien, fantasy is the art of using one’s imagination to create a “secondary world”—or “sub-creation”—that has “‘the inner consistency of reality’” and tha...