Mark Eddy Smith
Mark Eddy Smith, a writer who grew up in rural New Hampshire (which is not so different from the Shire) has read The Lord of the Rings more than a dozen times. He works as a graphic designer at InterVarsity Press and currently resides in Oak Park, Illinois.
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Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues
- By: Mark Eddy Smith
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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“As I get older and learn more of what sort of person I am, and continue sojourning to the rich soil of the Shire and the high tower of Minas Tirith, I discover that many of my notions of what is good and right and noble in this world have... Read more
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