Not intentionally, perhaps, but Tolkien later acknowledged the novel's inherently Judeo-Christian…

…moral ideals or symbols that shape the book, good and evil, light and dark, temptation, possession. You can of course attempt to argue that various characters are Christ-like in some way or another, but none are directly or intentionally so. Unlike C.S. Lewis whose fiction was in many ways an extension of his apologetics and thus shaped by…
Why the Lord of the Rings Still Matters as Literature
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Not intentionally, perhaps, but Tolkien later acknowledged the novel's inherently Judeo-Christian (specifically Catholic) themes. I won't bore you with examples as I daresay you've done your homework on this topic. :)
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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