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Just wanted to add my comments to the "Tolkien & the Bible" Discussion...here's a quote from "http://www.fotf.org/pplace/pi/lotr/A0018586.cfm" about Tokien's spirituality...
"The Lord of the Rings," (Tolkien) wrote in a letter to a friend, "is of course a fundamentally religious and Christian work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision." Humphrey Carpenter, author of Tolkien's authorized biography, takes this claim seriously. Tolkien's writings, he says, are "the work of a profoundly religious man." According to Carpenter, God is essential to everything that happens in The Lord of the Rings. Without (The Lord God), Middle-earth couldn't exist.
Anyone have any comments to offer in response to this?
Your friendly neighbourhood youth pastor,
Chris Jordan (chrisjordan7@hotmail.com)
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