LOTR vs. Religion - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Only Real Estel · 04-18-2003, 04:42 AM

Tolkien was converted to Chrisitanity later in life, and a lot of allagories slipped into his writing. Tolkien personal hated allagories, saying they forced the reader to think what you want them to think, but they still slipped in. Gandalf was not equal to God, but rather an 'angel', Iluvatar (creater of the elves, and lif-giver to all the living things in Middle Earth and the rest of Tolkien's world) was actually parrallelled to God. So I can see religion in it, but people over-react a lot! A=I had to do a short report on Tolkien's analogies, if you were wondering.

04-18-2003, 04:42 AM	#39
The Only Real Estel Raffish Rapscallion Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-( Posts: 2,835	Tolkien was converted to Chrisitanity later in life, and a lot of allagories slipped into his writing. Tolkien personal hated allagories, saying they forced the reader to think what you want them to think, but they still slipped in. Gandalf was not equal to God, but rather an 'angel', Iluvatar (creater of the elves, and lif-giver to all the living things in Middle Earth and the rest of Tolkien's world) was actually parrallelled to God. So I can see religion in it, but people over-react a lot! A=I had to do a short report on Tolkien's analogies, if you were wondering.