Christopher A. Snyder

About The Author

Christopher A. Snyder is Founding Dean of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford in England. He is the author of The Making of Middle-earth: A New Look Inside the World of J.R.R. Tolkien and Gatsby's Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904 -1929.

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Books by Christopher A. Snyder

Hobbit Virtues

Rediscovering J. R. R. Tolkien's Ethics from The Lord of the Rings

By Christopher A. Snyder

A response to our fractured political discourse, Hobbit Virtues speaks to the importance of “virtue ethics” by examining the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien—with particular attention to his hobbits.

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