Considers the ways that spiritual themes (for example, good and evil, sin and redemption, friendship, time, war and violence, creativity, the meaning of life, the meaning of death) are treated in some of the classics of contemporary fantasy: Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings , Michael Ende’s Momo , the anime of Hayao Miyazaki, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials , and Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea .