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Posted by Penitendagon on December 19, 19100 at 21:32:39:
In Reply to: Tolkien Christian? posted by Merryweather on May 23, 19100 at 22:40:43:
Certainly... Tolkien was Christian, and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is meant as an allegory of the Bible. The company he kept was also Christian, as he was a good friend of Christian apologist and storyteller, CS Lewis, of Narnia fame (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe being only one out of this anthology of children's stories).
Of course, World War 2 was in the air at the time of Tolkien's writing The Lord of the Rings, so there are certain to be influences there. An allegory is never meant to be equivalent to the main text it attempts to allegorize - that is known as a supposition. There are certain aspects that the storyteller will enhance to get a special story across, as well, such as the fact that Tolkien, as a linguistic student, created his own language and its own alphabet for the elven races, not to mention the entire history around which the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was based.
In the end, The Lord of the Rings is deliberately agous to the Bible but still has Tolkien's own flavor thrown in for storytelling purposes.