In my final bit of self-indulgent Tolkien Catholic geekery, here is The Man himself, talking about the link between Fairy Stories (of which The Lord of the Rings is a
This little series on Tolkien has been fun to write, not least because it has put me in contact with stuff I have never read before (like the obscure 1966
Jonathan Poletti keeps demonstrating his Fundamentalist atheism with his scattershot bill of charges again Tolkien attempting to prove that he was not a Real Catholic[TM], many of which are frankly
As we have seen, Jonathan Poletti has now realized he is committed to denying, not just the assertions of nameless and fictive “Christians” but the very clear words of Tolkien
Having begun with the attempt to debunk the idea that J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has anything whatever to do with Tolkien’s Christian beliefs, Jonathan Poletti is forced
Continuing our discussion from yesterday of Jonathan Poletti’s Fundamentalist atheist take on Tolkien (“No, Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” isn’t Christian”) we find Poletti’s eagerness to assume malicious dishonesty
…I thought it worthwhile to indulge my love of Tolkien and have an argument as the Man himself might have done down at the Bird and Baby over a pint.
…is now on line, with Ian Holm as Frodo! (He went on to play Bilbo in the films.)
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