The Presence of Christ in The Lord of the Rings

Ignatius Insight ^ | November 16, 2005 | Peter J. Kreeft

[Tired of Taxes]

Now, excuse me whilst I get back in line for my "Goblet of Fire" tickets...

Oh, no, say it ain't so, Corin Stormhands. LOL.

I only read the first Potter book, to review it before I allowed my son to read it, and I thought there were a lot of Christian elements in that story, too.

[Tired of Taxes]

I always loved Tolkien, but I'd never heard of "The Inklings". I just did a search. Thanks for the info.

I like learning more about my favorite authors, but also my oldest son will be reading LOTR this coming year, and that background will be helpful for him to know, too.

[stuartcr]

We must all be doomed then, because of the recent advances in cloning.

[LadyDoc]

the character "Ransom" in "out of the silent planet" and "peralandra" was based on Tolkien (however, in the third book, that Hideous Strength, both the plot and the Ransom character was influenced more by Charles Williams)...

To give one example: George Sayer describes Tolkien visiting him and playing "Thomas the Tank Engine" with his children (see his essay in Tolkien a celebration ed Joseph Pearce)...and in Out of the Silent Planet, Ransom is popular with Martians because he played with their children...

On the other hand, the exuberance and booming voice of Treebeard is based on CS Lewis...

Humphrey's book The Inklings discusses that group of men...who were quite different in many ways both personally and philosophically...

[XEHRpa]

> We must all be doomed then, because of the recent advances in cloning.

Most people have no true idea of the slippery slope we are sliding down on this one.

[stuartcr]

Perhaps Tolkein did...but then again, it may just all be part of God's plan for us.