The Breath of the Gods
In this episode Professor Rachel Fulton Brown reveals the mystery of the Trinity hidden within Tolkien’s account of the Valar—and shows why, to create the world, the Ainur had to enter into it. Keys to the mystery are shown to lie in Owen Barfield’s explanation of spiritus and in Dorothy Sayers’s explanation of metaphor. You will never think about the Trinity the same way again—especially if you know what it is like to write a book (or a joke or a poem or a play or anything you might make with words).