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Old 09-19-2008, 01:29 PM   #11
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The reason that the author portrays God the Father as a woman is to intentionally shock the main character out of his preconceived notions regarding the Christian god.


What I am wondering is, is the author a Tolkien fan, or did he see the movies and figure that everyone now would get the reference, or did he, expecting his readers to be mostly Christians (or have familiarity with that religion) to know that Tolkien was somehow related to Christianity?

I'm always hearing that "that Tolkien guy had something to do with that Christian apologist C.S. Lewis."
Perhaps in a diabolical fashion the author was referring to Ian McKellan portraying Gandalf as the Christian God due to Sir Ian's sexual persuasion -- a double entendre if ever there was one.
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