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"The Sad Truth Of Tolkien Spirituality"
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<blockquote data-quote="dms1972" data-source="post: 76027285" data-attributes="member: 325736"><p>To be honest my thoughts are mixed about Tolkien and Lewis also and their use of Fairy Stories to communicate christian truth - I don't know that they even had evangelism in mind - the idea of a pre-evangelistic role for his fiction occured to Lewis after he discovered many of his adult readers didn't make the connections between Maleldil and Christ in his Space Trilogy. I don't think there is anything wrong with the stories - I just think people need to move beyond them. Building a cult out of them seems the wrong response - I feel the same about Star Wars - I enjoyed the films (at least the first three - though they are more gnostic than anything Tolkien wrote) - but I cannot be bothered with people who take it so seriously as to start a Jedi Religion.</p><p></p><p>Does loving Aslan or Gandalf mean one has become a christian?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dms1972, post: 76027285, member: 325736"] To be honest my thoughts are mixed about Tolkien and Lewis also and their use of Fairy Stories to communicate christian truth - I don't know that they even had evangelism in mind - the idea of a pre-evangelistic role for his fiction occured to Lewis after he discovered many of his adult readers didn't make the connections between Maleldil and Christ in his Space Trilogy. I don't think there is anything wrong with the stories - I just think people need to move beyond them. Building a cult out of them seems the wrong response - I feel the same about Star Wars - I enjoyed the films (at least the first three - though they are more gnostic than anything Tolkien wrote) - but I cannot be bothered with people who take it so seriously as to start a Jedi Religion. Does loving Aslan or Gandalf mean one has become a christian? [/QUOTE]
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