Homages to St. Oswald for the Last Hundred Years

Lord of the Rings (1954—55)

It seems Aragorn was based on St. Oswald.

And His Word Went Marching On (2014)

And His Word Went Marching On, by myself, features St. Oswald in the third stanza after the two stanza length refrain. Also beginning of fourth stanza. The main theme is the liturgy that St. Gregory the Great had held before meeting the three Anglo-Saxon slave boys on the market. The point is, English (and South Scottish, and US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, to some extent even Irish) Christendom is the fruit of not just that meeting, but also when he had been celebrating Holy Mass that day before going to the market. I guess it was in Eastertide, and this brought him the idea of responding about their king ("what's the name of their king?" · "Ælla" · "Alleluia shall be sung there").

Whiteblade (2016)

The story of the C7th King (Saint) Oswald life

The question about the possibility of there being fan fiction on Whiteblade gave us a response which gave me the hint for this post by telling me how Tolkien spent 13 years (or much of them, once he abandoned the plan for Trotter being a hobbit and replaced him with Strider) doing a fan fiction on St. Oswald.

Tolkien got us covered!
Elisabeth Wheatley | 29 May 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbzH7q7GtMk