Griffen_07 t1_j2bkmnx wrote on December 31, 2022 at 1:11 AM

Reply to comment by dizzytinfoil in I finished re-reading The Lord of the Rings by EldritchHugMachine

For a generation. Then the fall resumes as the last of the old world dies. There is no God in these books or anything Tolkien himself published.

Crimson_Eyes t1_j2c1wdw wrote on December 31, 2022 at 3:22 AM

Utterly false. By Tolkien's own words, "The Author Himself (Who is not me)" caused Gollum to slip at the Cracks of Doom.

pierzstyx t1_j2chnis wrote on December 31, 2022 at 5:39 AM

>“The Lord of the Rings' is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out practically all references to anything like 'religion,' to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and symbolism.” ―Tolkien

God is not in one place in Lord of the Rings. God is everywhere in Lord of the Rings. The reason you can't see it is because you have no understanding of the Christian worldview generally or the Catholic worldview specifically.