Nearly a decade after Tolkien published The Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis passed away from a disease related to kidney failure on November 22, 1963. His longtime friend was absolutely devastated. The key to understanding religion and The Lord of the Rings is the now-unfamiliar, once-everyday method of typology. You can read The Lord of the Rings the way you would “read” cathedral sculpture or frescoes. This sounds drab and scholarly, I suppose, but I aimed at a lively and readable style. Give my piece a read and see if I succeeded. Jan 20, 2022 102 C hristianity makes a big effort to claim J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” as a Christian text. A story about magic rings, elves and wizards…is Christian? They The moral framework of his writing was strongly influenced by his Christian faith." Two decades after Peter Jackson's film trilogy dominated the box office, Tolkien's fictional universe is finding a new audience with the recent release of Amazon Prime's The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power, the most expensive television series ever made. P. Prayer. 5. Count your blessings. Instead of complaining and seeing your life half empty, see it half full and fill it up by counting all the good things in your life. Read Ann Voskamp’s book Murray, Tolkien wrote, “The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision” (Letters 172). Literary critics have discerned religious elements and allusions in The Lord of the Rings, but these tend to be incidental and scattered3. Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is upon us. Reputedly the most expensive television show ever produced, the $1 billion project is an adaptation of a very small part of Tolkien Many of you are aware that J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a faithful Catholic. I’ve often seen quotes on Facebook attributed to him without knowing if they were genuine. Turns out they were. Here are three quotes from Tolkien on the Pope and the Church, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and The Eucharist. zdOL.