How Tolkien's Catholic faith shaped his writing

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How J.R.R. Tolkien’s Strong Catholic Faith Influenced His Writing

To ask what Tolkien thought of God is rather like asking what Marx thought of socialism or how Samuel Pepys regarded the business of diary-keeping. In each case the subject so completely overwhelms the world to which it is introduced

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@rosalind_k

An evergreen argument at my library's reading group, and we've yet to settle it.

@nadia_v

It's always funny how a world with no visible religion in it can feel so deeply religious.

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