A good commentary on LOTR, even if you're not Catholic.
I got this article by e-mail from a Catholic friend. Another person on the e-mail list replied and said that Christ WAS mentioned. In FOTR, Chapter 2, page 90 of the recent Del Rey paperback edition, Sam Gamgee says: "Lor' bless me, sir, but I do love tales of that sort."
Far be it to me to explain what an author meant in his quote but I always interpreted catholic in that line as meaning universal or affecting the whole of mankind, of liberal or broad scope and not meaning the Catholic Church as a specific religion. I guess the meaning lies in if Tolkien capitalized "catholic" or not in the original quote.
BTW: I am Catholic and have read Tolkien several times but have not seen the movies.
