Tolkien was a devout catholic and afaik his criticism was not “hey, there is christian beliefs in here”, but rather “this is a fantasy world, why don’t you come up with a founding myth instead of just throwing real world myths in there”.
afterall tolkiens own creation myth is not that far from the christian myth, it just features more music ;)
And those christian myths were adapted from other mythologies is what I’m saying. They’ve all been copying each others’ homework since before homework was even invented.
of course, but when a christian author writes self-sacrifice followed by resurrection, they are probably referencing buddy jesus especially in gandalfs case who comes back as a literal savior figure and not just as his old self.
C.S. Lewis is the Author of the Fantasy Series Narnia.
The Lion Aslan is a chracater in the series and basically Jesus.
Lewis and Tolkien knew each other, but Tolkien did not weave christianity into his fantasy world the way Lewis did.
Not basically Jesus, literally Jesus.
C.S. Lewis:
do not cite the deep magic to me…
Nah, I know my Lotr better than my Narnia tbh.
I mean… He did have a descendant from god sacrifice himself only for him to get resurrected…
That’s hardly an idea the Christians came up with.
Tolkien was a devout catholic and afaik his criticism was not “hey, there is christian beliefs in here”, but rather “this is a fantasy world, why don’t you come up with a founding myth instead of just throwing real world myths in there”.
afterall tolkiens own creation myth is not that far from the christian myth, it just features more music ;)
And those christian myths were adapted from other mythologies is what I’m saying. They’ve all been copying each others’ homework since before homework was even invented.
of course, but when a christian author writes self-sacrifice followed by resurrection, they are probably referencing buddy jesus especially in gandalfs case who comes back as a literal savior figure and not just as his old self.