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While Tolkien's fantasy world could be taken as a play house, but than again isn't that what fantasy should be: to transport you out of this world into new realms that are there for us to explore? I picture Tolkien's work as he intended it to be: a revival of myth. Tolkien used myth not allegorically but to express Catholicism (in a sense his own view) in the form of a myth, a sanctifying myth one might say.
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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeatof peace on earth, good-will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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