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'''Reno E. Lauro''' is a researcher and independent scholar. His PhD thesis from the [[wikipedia:University of St Andrews|University of St Andrews]] was on [[Mythopoeia]].<ref>{{webcite|author=Reno E. Lauro|articleurl=http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/3207|articlename=
'''Reno E. Lauro''' is a researcher and independent scholar. His unpublished PhD thesis from the [[wikipedia:University of St Andrews|University of St Andrews]] was a treatment of Tolkine's philosophy of [[Mythopoeia]] <ref>{{webcite|author=Reno E. Lauro|articleurl=http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/3207|articlename=
''Beyond the colonization of human imagining and everyday life: crafting mythopoeic lifeworlds as a theological response to hyperreality''|dated=30 November 2012|website=[http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/ St Andrews Research Repository]|accessed= 9 December 2019}}</ref> His work makes connections between Tolkien, the medieval aesthetics of light, and the philosophy of [[wikipedia:Martin Heidegger|Martin Heidegger]]. He runs the substack page [https://tolkienshouseofbeing.substack.com/ Tolkien's House of Being] since 2019, and its associated [http://www.facebook.com/Tolkiens-House-of-Being-103629977785291/ Facebook page].
''Beyond the colonization of human imagining and everyday life: crafting mythopoeic lifeworlds as a theological response to hyperreality''|dated=30 November 2012|website=[http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/ St Andrews Research Repository]|accessed= 9 December 2019}}</ref> as a response to Jean Baudrillard's Hyperreality. His work makes connections between Tolkien, the medieval aesthetics of light, and the philosophy of [[wikipedia:Martin Heidegger|Martin Heidegger]]. Reno contends that Tolkien modified Barfield's notion of Ancient Semantic Unity and developed his own Ontological Semantic Unity in the Legendarium. Rather than a literary endeavor, Tolkien applied the Medieval aesthetics of light to an already involved asterisk history of Elves and Men. Tolkien can only be understood, he says, by taking his cosmological ontology at face value as a true recovery of enchanted forms of life for an Age of the Machine.
 
Reno runs the substack page [https://tolkienshouseofbeing.substack.com/ Tolkien's House of Being] since 2019, and its associated [http://www.facebook.com/Tolkiens-House-of-Being-103629977785291/ Facebook page].


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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** "Of Spiders and Light: Hope, Action and Medieval Aesthetics in the horrors of Shelob's Lair"
** "Of Spiders and Light: Hope, Action and Medieval Aesthetics in the horrors of Shelob's Lair"
===Lectures===
===Lectures===
* [[24 February|February 24]], [[2006]], University of St Andrews=
* [[24 February|February 24]], [[2006]], University of St Andrews
** "Panning the Semantic Trace: language, imagination and reality in the works of Owen Barfield & J.R.R. Tolkien"
** "Panning the Semantic Trace: language, imagination and reality in the works of Owen Barfield & J.R.R. Tolkien"
* [[1 March|March 1]], [[2008]], [[wikipedia:Dallas Baptist University|Dallas Baptist University]]
* [[March]], [[2006]], University of St. Andrews Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts colloquium 'Patterns of Promise: Art, Imagination, and Christian Hope'
**"Tolkien’s Nostalgia: Recovering the Reality of Christian Hope through Imagination"
* [[1 March|March 1]], [[2008]], Dallas Baptist University Pew/Paideia Conference
** "Magic, Craft and Poïesis: Modes of Imaginative Resistance and Revealing in J.R.R. Tolkien and Martin Heidegger"
** "Magic, Craft and Poïesis: Modes of Imaginative Resistance and Revealing in J.R.R. Tolkien and Martin Heidegger"
*[[31 July|July 31]], [[2021]], MythCon 51
**"Philology and the Lived Imagination: Vico, Collingwood, and Tolkien"
*[[21 October|October 22]], [[2022]], Tolkien Among the Theologians Conference at Houston Christian University
**"Tolkien, St. Maximus, and the Anglo-Saxon Theological Tradition"


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://st-andrews.academia.edu/RenoLauro {{PAGENAME}}] at [http://academia.edu/ Academia.edu]
* [http://st-andrews.academia.edu/RenoLauro {{PAGENAME}}] at [http://academia.edu/ Academia.edu]
* [https://tolkienhb.com Tolkien's House of Being]
* [https://tolkienshouseofbeing.substack.com/ Tolkien's House of Being]
* [http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/9548568.pdf Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of St. Andrews]
* [http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/9548568.pdf Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of St. Andrews]



Revision as of 00:02, 10 October 2022

Reno E. Lauro is a researcher and independent scholar. His unpublished PhD thesis from the University of St Andrews was a treatment of Tolkine's philosophy of Mythopoeia [1] as a response to Jean Baudrillard's Hyperreality. His work makes connections between Tolkien, the medieval aesthetics of light, and the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Reno contends that Tolkien modified Barfield's notion of Ancient Semantic Unity and developed his own Ontological Semantic Unity in the Legendarium. Rather than a literary endeavor, Tolkien applied the Medieval aesthetics of light to an already involved asterisk history of Elves and Men. Tolkien can only be understood, he says, by taking his cosmological ontology at face value as a true recovery of enchanted forms of life for an Age of the Machine.

Reno runs the substack page Tolkien's House of Being since 2019, and its associated Facebook page.

Bibliography

Articles

Lectures

  • February 24, 2006, University of St Andrews
    • "Panning the Semantic Trace: language, imagination and reality in the works of Owen Barfield & J.R.R. Tolkien"
  • March, 2006, University of St. Andrews Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts colloquium 'Patterns of Promise: Art, Imagination, and Christian Hope'
    • "Tolkien’s Nostalgia: Recovering the Reality of Christian Hope through Imagination"
  • March 1, 2008, Dallas Baptist University Pew/Paideia Conference
    • "Magic, Craft and Poïesis: Modes of Imaginative Resistance and Revealing in J.R.R. Tolkien and Martin Heidegger"
  • July 31, 2021, MythCon 51
    • "Philology and the Lived Imagination: Vico, Collingwood, and Tolkien"
  • October 22, 2022, Tolkien Among the Theologians Conference at Houston Christian University
    • "Tolkien, St. Maximus, and the Anglo-Saxon Theological Tradition"

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References