Tolkien has been the heaviest swinger literary swinger for Christianity and, through his work, have solved so many modern quandaries with religion that his viewpoint should be taken into far more account.>physical and spiritual resistance to evil is a major act of loyalty to God>Evil choices and effects can be made but can not logically contradict the Source from which they preceded>Eucatastrophe>a race descending from an epic past of spiritual battle that has now embedded its dire situation into physical reality>Love, pity, and mercy are the most OP powers in the universe>Rational religious behavior is negentropic and defies the natural law of the universeI could go on and on. Tolkien may be the first author to have written a true Christian epic and it is coincidentally one of the best pieces of literary work, ever. These are not new Christian ideas but they have not been explored and delivered in this way
>>18326089Cuck who didn't support fascism.
>>18326092bot, next
>>18326089Tolkein literally has two annually published academic journals devoted entirely to the study of his work, I imagine it's been discussed in depth somewhere, the christian influences are fairly well known>https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tolkien_Studies_(journal)>https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Vinyar_Tengwar
>>18326089The Silmarillion offers an interesting answer to the>if God so stronk how come babies die of cancerThe very nature of the Earth we live in has been marred to its core by Morgoth/Satan/Timat/whatever. The free will exercised by every person before you, for better or worse, also has an effect on you, whether you like it or not.
Christianity, the child who wasn't washed in church will be next to Hitler in hell.Tolkien's Commentaries
>>18326089So tired of Tolkienfags
>>18326089He's just too popular and the fantasy genre is just too filled with slop to take it seriously
>>18326089ASOIAF is better btw>>18326092This
>>18326267>ASOIAFit's just a bunch of incest and rape with no ending
>>18326089Because most people don't realize that it is Tolkien and his interdisciplinary approach to writing fiction that synonymized those ideas with Christianity in a way that they remain culturally pervasive even today. A lot of these ideas can be found in deeper religious discussions and in the Bible, but actually getting people to have those discussions or read the Bible is difficult for many reasons. Funnily enough I think Tolkien would have preferred people reading the Bible and very much would not have wanted these ideas to be seen as flowing from him.
>>18326269Not the epic Americans want, but the epic they deserve
>>18326269Asoiaf has some good points though.>Being good is often punished>You should be good even if it isn't rewarded
