[NYer]

Enjoy!

[MiddleEarth]

Awesome! Thanks!

[SevenofNine]

Precioussss ring list

SO who is Golem represented that dude was ugly LOL!

[Servant of the Cross]

Faith and Fantasy: Tolkien the Catholic, The Lord of the Rings, and Peter Jackson’s Film Trilogy ... Stephen Graydanus

[marron]

Good post.

[Gothmog]

Thanks for the post

[Richard Kimball]

Thanks for posting that. It’s great to read about the backgrounds of great artists and writers.

[Hank Kerchief]

I’ve read everything Lewis wrote, some several times. Thoroughly enjoyed being in touch with another real mind when reading him.

Could never abide Tolkien. It was like being in touch with something rotting.

Hank

[RnMomof7]

I am more a realist..I dislike his work and can only tolerate some of lewis’s. Maybe I am too dumb to make the connections they think are obvious

[MarineBrat]

The Hobbit and LOTR was a story about good and evil. A story about the sacrifice of those who are noble and good in order to vanquish evil. A story about how the smallest among us can become the greatest in the eyes of God. They were good books.

Had I not read them originally as a teenager in the early 70's, I might not find them as enjoyable and nostalgic though.

[little jeremiah]

The crystal vial with the Light of Galadriel which was to be light to show the way, when all other lights go out - reminds me of God’s voice in the heart, which often most people finally turn to when in despair, loneliness or confusion.

That Light never goes out.

I love LOTR. Read it many times as a teenager.

[HarleyD]

Even the One Ring, forged by the magical art of Sauron, is never actually characterized as evil in itself. Rather, its power to command the Ringwraiths and the invisibility it confers are regarded as temptations that make the ring too dangerous for it to be used appropriately.

For one who loves the Lord of the Ring trilogy and have read the books, this is simply not true. As Gandalf the Grey stated, "The Ring is altogether evil." It is the reason the Fellowship cannot use the Ring and must be casted into the fires of Mt. Doom.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring

I am baffled that Catholics seem to want to do away with the concept of "evil".

[the invisib1e hand]

Without a father's income, however, the task of educating her sons would take some doing because the best schools charged tuition. Also, her decision to become Catholic estranged her from most of her family, who withdrew their financial support. So Mabel did what any resourceful woman with a fine middle-class education would do: She home-schooled her sons until they could pass the entrance exams and receive scholarships at a good private school.

Now, of course, that would probably be against the law.