The Emblems of Religion don't belong ... or do they?

[Imladris]

Hmmmm how to explain

Originally Posted by alatar

But on the other hand, religion has its 'fuzzy' areas where some components require faith to fill in gaps in knowledge/facts. Certain things cannot be reduced to cold hard text on a page, but have to be felt, experienced, lived, accepted.

According to Tolkien, myth and religion is hopelessly entangled I just think that the reason Tolkien did not put any religious symbol is because of that fact Myth, I think (and I use myth as Tolkien and Lewis understood i), is, in part to help us understand religion and the higher things in life But how can Myth help us understand when it uses the same symbols that may be causing confusion? As I said before, myth is beyond this world, thus the symbols of this world doesn't really have a place in it

I think that is why Till We have Faces is more mythic than say, The Chronicles of Narnia I don't recall any religious symbol (such as Aslan), yet it was by far more powerful than Chronicles of Narnia

And isn't mythology just another's perspective on one's religion? For example, I've always loved to read Greek/Roman mythology - stories about Zeus, Heracles, et al. Weren't these stories considered at a time to be 'religion?'.

I have heard that the people truly did not believe these stories, but made them up to help them understand their world Whether this is true, I do not know