Jacob Moore’s Reviews > Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth > Status Update

P. 302: Tolkien recognizes the intersection of two different planes of consideration: the real, permanent world of morality on the one hand, and the changing, subjective game of honor on the other. In other words, we can suffer confusion between an aesthetic distaste and hatred of sin.

P. 247: The Christian joy that provokes us to give glory to God is something like the emotion one might feel if a favorite fairy story had been found to be true... The joy of eucatastrophe is the realization that the most wonderful reversals of fiction are actually echoes of the way things work in the real word. This is why our nature funds such a resonance with the sudden joyous turn -- because we are made for it.