Another thing that I think is great about LOTR is the presence of God (presented as Eru) throughout it.
No, He's never directly mentioned (except by Arwen in the Appendices), but He's there. The three examples I know of are:
1) Bilbo being "meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker," as Gandalf says.
2) The resurrection of Gandalf.
3) The climax scene; the destruction of the Ring, in which "Frodo was saved by divine intervention," as Tolkien said in one of his Letters.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I am a Christian, and I find it uplifting that this, the greatest fantasy work of all time, was written by a Christian author with a distinctly Christian view.
It's not "The Greatest Story Ever Told," as one video game tried to sell it, but it's written by a man who knew the Greatest Story Ever Told, the "True Myth," as he dubbed it.
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"If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door."
THE HOBBIT - IT'S COMING
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