Would the Middle Earth saga be considered a religion in of itself?

[Beleglas]

LOL! If you tried to get a an adult from ancient Greece to "worhsip" characters from the Sil, you'd have a better chance of being run through with a spear. It ain't that simple, dude. Just because people back then didn't have indoor plumbing and X-Box doesn't mean that they were as gullible as 3-year-olds. At least I hope not....I have too much faith in the human race, don't I?

Well, if you can covert ancient Greeks to Christianity (as happened, knowing that Greeks are katholic nowadays), then you can certainly convert them to Tolkienism, being less rediculous then the Bible (I remember a story in it where some Jewish hero defeated a huge army with only three hundred man, "because he had the help of god", sure). Or letting a citywalls collapse only by singing prayers and walking around it with an ark (Jericho).