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“Tolkien’s Strong Catholic Faith Influenced His Writing D.J.”
“Bringing God into a work of fiction nearly always creates problems for writer and reader alike.”
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“Meek, trusting and confident that at all times his path through life was lit by divine lamplight, Tolkien swallowed his Catholicism whole.”
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“Taylor November 3, 2026 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.”
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“Tolkien, it is fair to say, saw God everywhere: in the minutest details of his day-to-day life and the landscapes that lay beyond it, in his relationships, in his hopes and dreams and, above all, in his art.”
“If he remained unconvinced by his friend Charles Williams’s lurid supernatural thrillers, in which evil stalks the London pavements and demons are ready to pounce from the rooftops, then he would have agreed with Williams that God’s distinguishing mark is his ubiquity.”
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“Induced to watch the Hollywood blockbuster The Song of Bernadette , patron saint of Lourdes, in the mid-1940s, he found it “a most marvelous story in every aspect, human and religious.” Meek, trusting and confident that at all times his path through life was lit by divine lamplight, Tolkien swallowed his Catholicism whole.”
“No one in The Lord of the Rings gets by on ironic detachment or a disinclination to be drawn: the issues at stake are far too serious for liberal equivocation.”
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“If Tolkien, in bringing God into his fiction, manages to avoid the trick of having his cake and eating it too, then this is because his God is only there where you know to look for him, unadvertised and operating by stealth, and it would be perfectly possible for an out-and-out secularist to read the scene in which a reclothed and reanimated Gandalf appears in Fangorn forest without peril to his conscience.”
“Fletcher’s solution to the mess he has got himself into is to walk into a confession box and repent.”
“A wizard in a made-up world or God’s will made manifest on a reimagined earth?”
“A letter to his son Christopher written in the 1940s offers a blow-by-blow account of a spiritual awakening at St.”
“All this gave Tolkien the terrific sense of spiritual purpose that irradiates his life, but it also made him inflexible, all too ready—at times—to sacrifice human psychology on the altar of belief.”
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