Tolkien: Evolutionist or Creationist?

[Kates Frodo Temp]

but did not Eru "create" the vala, and didnt he create arda and create the first born (and second born).

Precisely. If you carefully read Tolkien's account of the creation of Arda, you will find many similarities to the Bible creation story. Additionally, you may remember that in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia Narnia was sung into being just as Tolkien's Arda. We can be sure that Lewis was a Creationist. Since they were friends, and, I believe, heavily influenced each other's work, does this not suggest that Tolkien had similar ideas when writing of the creation of Arda? He was, after all, a Catholic, and so would likely, thought not necessarily, have had Creationist ideas. None this proves Tolkien to be a Creationist, but doesn't most of the evidence point that way?