Posted: July 04, 2000 at 14:32:38: by Goodgulf
: Tolkein was a devout Catholic, but in all of LotR there is no evidence of any kind of organised religion practised by any of the numerous races. Did he deliberately decide not to complicate matters with this, or is LotR partly intended to be a very in-depth moral parable (as I believe the bible to have originally been meant to be)? I incline towards the latter view myself but would welcome any other views or insights.Some critics find a great deal of religion in the LOTR. Richard Purtill devotes a whole chapter to religion in Tolkien's writing in "Lord of the Elves and Eldils/Fantasy and Philosophy in C.S. Lewis and JRR Tolkien" (Zondervan Books 1974).
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