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Disney's 'Tolkien' Movie Cuts Out the Christian Faith That Inspired His Life and Work
PJ Media ^ | May 9, 2019 | Tyler O'Neil

Posted on 05/09/2019 1:45:37 PM PDT by OddLane

Disney's new film Tolkien premiers this weekend, and the trailers promise an engrossing biopic, complete with scenes from the First World War. The movie aims to show how J.R.R. Tolkien's early life inspired the creative genius behind such works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which are rightly recognized as classics and which both inspired epic film franchises (one far superior to the other).

Yet the new Disney film cuts out some of the most important influences in his life. The movie does not once mention the great ex-atheist and Christian author C.S. Lewis, a close friend of Tolkien. Indeed, Tolkien said he would never have completed The Lord of the Rings without Lewis' "great encouragement." The movie also does not mention the Inklings, the society of writers who read each other's works and spurred both Lewis and Tolkien on to greatness. The film focuses on the early influences of Tolkien's life, so these cuts may be justifiable...

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TOPICS: Catholic; Evangelical Christian
KEYWORDS: antichristianbigotry; catholicism; christ; hollywood; moviereview; tolkien
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1 posted on 05/09/2019 1:45:37 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Christophobia will do that...


2 posted on 05/09/2019 1:47:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: OddLane

That was a given.


3 posted on 05/09/2019 1:49:31 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: OddLane

That’s unfortunate. The Inklings circle of friendship is something Post-WWI that heavily influenced him. That was a very interesting chapter in his life.


4 posted on 05/09/2019 1:50:11 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: BBQToadRibs

Pre-reviews of the Tolkien movie released tomorrow have been mediocre.


5 posted on 05/09/2019 1:52:28 PM PDT by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: OddLane

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/tolkien-estate-takes-stand-against-biopic-994446


6 posted on 05/09/2019 1:53:53 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: OddLane

I suppose it omits that he had a Catholic Priest as a guardian for a significant portion of his childhood.

https://www.birminghamoratory.org.uk/about-the-oratory/tolkein-the-oratory/

A priest, by the way, well-known to Cardinal Newman, from whom I am proud to take my tagline.


7 posted on 05/09/2019 1:56:40 PM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: OddLane

typical leftist Hollywood

dealing in stereotypes, slogans and gloss


8 posted on 05/09/2019 1:57:31 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: OddLane

The title should read “Catholic Faith”.


9 posted on 05/09/2019 2:04:33 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Take it up with PJ Media’s headline writers.


10 posted on 05/09/2019 2:09:27 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: BBQToadRibs

The book mentioned in the article, about JRR Tolkien and C.S. Lewis’s formative experience in WWI, is worth reading.


11 posted on 05/09/2019 2:10:14 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

That’s too bad.

Was hoping this would be a movie worth going to.

Sounds like they “Petered Jacksoned” this movie.

By this I mean they gutted ‘The Hobbit” of original content and substituted PC and theme park crap to make three movies.
There was enough to make really great two movies if PJ just did what he did for the Ring trilogy.
But they screwed around with it and made a hot mess of it.

Won’t see this movie, either.


12 posted on 05/09/2019 2:19:30 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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I didn’t know the Hobbits were Christian, anyway. Guess I was reading with my pagan eyes.


13 posted on 05/09/2019 2:22:23 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: OddLane

Another Disney movie to skip.


14 posted on 05/09/2019 2:23:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty, hateful and use racist slurs yet feel morally superior.)
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To: OddLane

Not surprised. Hollywood hates Christians.


15 posted on 05/09/2019 2:29:27 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: OddLane

Typical Hollywood tripe. No guts no glory. Tolkein and Lewis were Christian brothers who worked tirelessly for the advancement of the Christian faith. The Ring trilogy is a masterpiece of Christian literature. The utter stupidity of this move makes it of no more value than a cheap confection.


16 posted on 05/09/2019 2:43:53 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: sparklite2; RedMonqey
It's not that the Hobbits were Christians, nor even that they were directly allegorical representations of Chistians.

It's that Tolkien said that is whole orientation, as a "sub-creator" under God the Creator, was toward moral truth: the truth of flawed creatures still serving under the influence of Grace, and under the aegis of an overshadowing Divine Providence bigger than any individual plan or design.

This is what gives any story coherence and interest. And that's how Tolkien could claim that The Lord of the Rings was "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work" (LINK).

17 posted on 05/09/2019 2:47:50 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Beauty will save he world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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To: OddLane

You simply cannot understand Tolkien without understanding his Christian faith.


18 posted on 05/09/2019 2:54:21 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: sparklite2

Hobbits weren’t Christians. Tolkien was.

But Tolkien’s background affected his writings.

Basically Good Vs. Evil.
Good beings sacrificed themselves for the betterment of others.


19 posted on 05/09/2019 3:03:46 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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To: Louis Foxwell
The Ring trilogy is a masterpiece of Christian literature.

I wouldn't go so far as to label the Ring trilogy as "Christian literature"

True it has many of the attributions and morality of Christian themed books but I doubt you will find it categorized in the Christian/religion section of any library or bookstore.

Any first time reader of the Hobbit or Ring trilogy will be disappointed it has no mention of actually Christians or Jesus in it.
20 posted on 05/09/2019 3:11:20 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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