The Autobiographical Tolkien - 'Leaf by Niggle'...

[littlemanpoet]

mark: Did I zap you in the eucatastrophe thread? I'm sorry, didn't mean to cause any scarring. I tend to agree that there is some allegorical feel, at least application, to Smith.

This is quite a revolutionary thought to me; can you reconcile Faery and the Christian faith?

I've been wrestling with precisely this question for about fifteen years in my never-to-be-finished magnum opus (see my sig).

I think the best real-time reconciliation of this was Celtic Christianity from the time of Patrick until it was subsumed by the Latin behemoth. The same lightness and whimsicalness, and danger, that we find in Smith can be found in everything having to do with that era. Read Thomas Cahill's "How the Celts Saved Civilization" to get a sense of what I mean. I highly recommend the book if you like Tolkien.