Very interesting, not that I hadn't pondered on it before! I believe that if one was educated from the beginning of his existence with Tolkien's texts taken as seriously as the Bilbe/Coran/other religious work, and if the deucator would favor Tolien's perception, then one might grow to become a believer in Tolkien's mythology, and subsequently worship the pantheon of Arda, taken as real. It would be a very interesting experiment to realize, especially to show the futility of all the religions of the world (ie nobody believes what Tolkien wrote was non-fiction).
|