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Originally Posted by Rhod the Red
Well if people read it with a kind of religious filter, they're idiots.
He didn't write the books as a religious kind of text, but to 'create a mythology' for the modern world. We know he was dissatisfied with the Aurthurian legends, etc.
And for the Hobbit; intended as a book for children.
Anything else for either book is pure intellectual dishonesty.
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Oh come now. Trying to separate Tolkien's writings from his deeply held Catholicism is disingenuous.
I mean in Tokien's own words, The Lord of the Rings is, "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work."
It's just not an allegory.