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A brief note
I think that in this case Tolkien was objecting to the use of religious emblems from our own world (crucifixes, etc.) in fantasy, not depictions of religion in general.
Edit: Cross-posted with alatar, who made basically the same distinction.
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"This miserable drizzling afternoon I have been reading up old military lecture-notes again:- and getting bored with them after an hour and a half. I have done some touches to my nonsense fairy language - to its improvement."
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