aragorn
The King fairy stories Tolkien connects all of fairy-story to the master-narrative of Christianity: fall and redemption through the impossible eucatastrophe of resurrection. This is the Christo-centric passion of the Logos as we see played out in the death and resurrection of Gandalf, Aragorn’s journey into and return from the land of the dead, Éowyn’s rescue of Théoden from the King of the Wraiths and her healing by Aragorn, the charge of the Rohirrim, and Frodo’s trudge up the Golgotha of Mt....