Good versus evil: Downplayed, or overplayed?

[Lord of Angmar]

The article I link to above is, at least, a good indication that Christians are not a homogenous group and Christian attitudes toward Tolkien and how he should or shouldn't be represented on film can, and will, diverge.

The article certainly is a good indicator of that, though I hope non-Christians who read the three articles being discussed in this thread don't think that the only heterogeneousness of Christians lies within the viewpoints displayed in said articles.

[Lalaith]

I cannot bear to continue writing about this tripe

I feel the same way, Lord of Angmar...but just to clarify the Crowley issue, I believe that one of the Inklings (Thomas?) belonged to another organisation that Crowley briefly was involved in. That's as far as the association went.
Which gives a good indication of the veracity of the rest of the article.

[The Saucepan Man]

I believe that one of the Inklings (Thomas?) belonged to another organisation that Crowley briefly was involved in. That's as far as the association went.

I thought as much. I did a google search on "Crowley and Inklings" and could find nothing to connect them, save that this Inkling Handbook has a reference to Crowley. Oh, and apparently there's some novel which has the heroic Inklings taking on the despicable Crowley.

Crowley is certainly a notorious figure and was most definately an occultist (a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn) and a practitioner in mysticism, so (even though I do not believe some of the more ludicrous and extreme claims about him) I would have been surprised if he had ever been on anything approaching talking terms with Tolkien.

[Saraphim]

I'm sorry, but that article Lush provided made me laugh. Particulary when they blamed homosexuality on the Inklings.