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Tolkien and Catholicism

Bradley J. Birzer, Imaginative Conservative

Monday, November 8, 2021

Though Tolkien said that the Roman Catholicism only entered The Lord of the Rings consciously in its revision, one finds prayer, notions of hierarchy, and Catholic sacramental elements in the earliest conceptions of the legendarium.

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