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[Sasha <mrkflux AT so.sbb.co.yu>]

Shame on you Gene, a writer that has not read Tolkien. 

I have read The Lord Oft The Rings many years before the film,nobody around 
me 
did know who Tolkien was.You have read others who did write about Tolkien and 
his work,now that is a lousy way to know a writer and his piece.Now, I dont 
know the quote you write about but I didnt have find anything even closely 
connected to Catholicism in his books.Religious?Well,in all art artist is in 
the end talking about himself.So anything you wrote speaks about you ,or 
no ,perhaps?
But on the other side you could wait that this Ring mass media bliss,pass and 
then you could be ready to know this book.Which is one of the best books I 
have read in my life,and I have read many of them.The  LOTR has this ability 
to reach something really deep in people,and that is the reason of its 
popularity.I am quite sure that it is a work which will be well known after 
all of us will be just a dust in the wind.

Best regards,Sasha  


On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:00, homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> > Now, Wonder Woman, that depends on whether you seek entertainment or
> > immersion into a writer's vision. Actually, having read a bit about
> > Tolkien, I doubt the books would keep my interest. I find fantasy
> > akin to spirituality; some speaks to me and some doesn't. Beyond
> > spirituality, Tolkien was religious. That url I referenced in my last
> > post included this: 'The Lord of the Rings' is of course a
> > fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first,
> > but consciously in the revision," Tolkien wrote in a letter in 1953
> > to Robert Murray, a Jesuit priest.
> >
> > Should I ever choose to spend a couple days of my precious time to
> > read JRRT I have his books nearly at hand; nearby friends are as
> > enamored of him as you. They call their place Hobbitwoods. But they
> > have normal feet.

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