[HairOfTheDog]

"Tolkien was Catholic" doesn't really answer what I asked. So how would Tolkien have answered Pippin? Is there, in that Catholic view, an afterlife for Pippin? How do you answer an honest hobbit facing possible death in Middle Earth?

Or would Tolkien have not had Pippin ponder an afterlife in the first place?

[BibChr]

I have no idea what he would have said. I am dealing with what movie-G did say, as opposed to what Tolkien-G never said. That's my point.

And before you say, "Well, then... he might've!", I will say that Gandalf equally might have told Pippin that if he did a good deed, he'd turn into a Real Boy. But he didn't. And to imply that glory and happiness await EVERYONE, as movie-G (to my memory) seemed to say, is equally untrue to anything I think Tolkien would have said.

Dan