By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, CERC - St John Henry Newman was a great influence in Tolkien’’s life, and Newman’s motto, Cor ad cor loquitur (Heart speaks to heart) is an apt description of Ordway’s book. The heart of Tolkien’s life and work is his Catholic faith, and that heart spoke to Ordway’s heart, and she speaks from her heart to the heart of the reader—always balancing the scholar’s objectivity with the aficionado’s passion and the biographer’s observation and critique with the devotion of a fellow Catholic and Christian apologist. ...