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I speak as a devoted fan of LOR. I do not dismiss your analysis as improper. A few comments in defense of LOR
1. If the same scrutiny was applied to Alice in Wonderland and other children's novels, they would be anathemized.
2. I've always looked to Tolkien and Lewis for imagination not theology. God's Word never changes.
3. I can find dozens of areas where LOR reinforces my christian belief. It prepares a pagan mind to accept the only real truth. The Bible.
4. Didn't the apostle Paul begain and address to the Romans using the Unknown God as a starting place.
5. anything done to excess can have deleterious results to the soul.
I would like to contine this dialogue. .later

Hi! Thanks for writing! I appreciate the time you took!

You said "1. If the same scrutiny was applied to Alice in Wonderland and other children's novels, they would be anathemized."

Can we start there?

Personally, I think many childrens books are really no good. We may view them as harmless fun, but are they? Don't they prepare you for that next bigger step?

My parents always read to me. But we read a lot of biography. We did read Peter Pan, but that is about the only "fairy fiction" I remember.

I do remember "Goodbye Mr. Chips" and "Little Women" very fondly, among others.

But those books dealt with real people facing things that could really happen, in that they did not take place in some kind of fantasy world with occult images.

My parents predisposed me to read great books, not just fairy tale fiction. So when I was older, I was not looking for books that flirted with the occult. It was a great thing!!!

I also never got involved in watching Soap Operas, or lots of other type fiction melodramas. I think my life has been the better for it, all things considered. :-)