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Fordim Hedgethistle · 10-27-2006, 08:37 AM

Squatter can perhaps find the relevant letter for me, but somewhere Tolkien did explain that LotR was not "intended" as a Christian work when he first wrote it, but that it became a consciously Catholic work in the process of revision....I think that might be the full comment from the letter already cited....get to it Squatter!

So no, of course he didn't lie, he simply meant that the work cannot be read "only" or "solely" as Christian. Simply that for him, as he revised it, it became a work which reflected his own Catholic view of the world.

EDIT: Ignore this post. Just read the following by Celuien.

10-27-2006, 08:37 AM	#5
Fordim Hedgethistle Gibbering Gibbet Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Beyond cloud nine Posts: 1,844	Squatter can perhaps find the relevant letter for me, but somewhere Tolkien did explain that LotR was not "intended" as a Christian work when he first wrote it, but that it became a consciously Catholic work in the process of revision....I think that might be the full comment from the letter already cited....get to it Squatter! So no, of course he didn't lie, he simply meant that the work cannot be read "only" or "solely" as Christian. Simply that for him, as he revised it, it became a work which reflected his own Catholic view of the world. EDIT: Ignore this post. Just read the following by Celuien. __________________ Scribbling scrabbling. Last edited by Fordim Hedgethistle; 10-27-2006 at 08:53 AM.