This title examines the theological relationship between creation and creativity in the works of J R R Tolkien. It provides a fresh reading of these important themes in Tolkien and highlights the multi-faceted nature of Tolkien's own vivid theology and literary imagination.

Trevor Hart (Ph D University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Divinity and former Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, now the director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, St. Andrews. Ivan Khovacs is Lecturer at the Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts, St. Andrews.