“The Lord of the Rings is of
course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first,
but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut
out, practically all references to anything like ‘religion’, to cults or
practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into
the story and the symbolism.”
Letter to his friend Robert Murray, S.J. (December 1953)
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