[harlindon]

I am a Christan, and I, too, was not offended by the books or the movies. There are a lot of Biblical paralles in the books, its just there. There are a lot of symbolistic(sp) things in the books, as in every other.I'm not going to sit here and tell them all, people can interpet it as they like. If you know your Bible as I do then you will see more than thoes peopel who don't know the Bible. People have been using the Bible to make statments in popular novels all through out history. Now indays people dont' know they Bible as well because people don't value having a riligion as much as they used to. Whether Tolkin ment for there to be such big parallels or not they are still there.