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On 4/10/20 6:37 PM, Troels Forchhammer wrote:

I general, I think that way too much is made of Tolkien's faith and
it's impact on his /work/ (as opposed to the impact on other aspects
of his life), so the absence of his faith in the film did not bother
me all that much (in some ways it was a relief), though it was, of
course, a biographical fallacy.

I know that as a 17-year-old atheist with atheist parents and a
Protestant family background, I needed only about three chapters to
conclude that Tolkien was a Roman Catholic.

(I also concluded from the slog across Mordor that the author had seen
war. For what itrCOs worth, I made a similar deduction about Alexandr
Volkov when I read rCLUrfin Jus and His Wooden SoldiersrCY.)
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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