What is the fascination with religious topics?

[HerenIstarion]

support is easily found if one bothers oneself with a bit of research:

from J.R.R.T.'s notes to W.H.Auden's review of LoTR:

In The Lord of the Rings the conflict is not basically about 'freedom', though that is naturally involved. <font color="FF0001">It is about God, and His sole right to divine honour. The Eldar and the Númenóreans believed in The One, the true God, and held worship of any other person an abomination. Sauron desired to be a God-King, and was held to be this by his servants; if he had been victorious he would have demanded divine honour from all rational creatures and absolute temporal power over the whole world.

or, to quote (hum) from Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera - "what more evidence shall we need?"


cheers

[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: HerenIstarion ]