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Old 01-13-2002, 02:27 PM   #21
dernhelm
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I think Lord of the Rings and all of the stories about Middle Earth have definite similarities to Christianity and the Bible, but they aren't necessarily an allegory. Tolkien, himself, was a professing Christian, and some of his arguments even helped the great writer, C. S. Lewis, convert to the Christian faith. Tolkien believed, as I do as well, that God created man in His image. So, since God is the Creator, man also wants to create things. Therefore, Tolkien called his books a "sub-creation", because they had similarities to God's Creation, but his books weren't exactly like the stories from the Bible. Instead, Tolkien used the gift of creation and writing that God had given him to make up a whole story and world(Middle Earth) of his own.
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