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How J.R.R. Tolkien became a Christian writer
The ring and the cross
The Boston Globe, Dec. 29, 2002
By Chris Mooney
From their mastery Middle-earth geography to their occasional fluency in Elvish, fans of the “Lord of the Rings” books tend to be a pretty knowledgeable bunch.
But many would be surprised to learn that J.R.R. Tolkien’s great medievalist epic had a co-author: God. According to Peter Kreeft, a Catholic philosopher at Boston College, Tolkien was under the divine spell when he composed his sprawling trilogy.
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“Of course it’s inspired; it’s got His fingerprints all over it,” wrote Kreeft in an article on Tolkien and evil that was reprinted this spring in a special all-Tolkien issue of the Catholic-leaning Chesterton Review.
Kreeft isn’t alone in his analysis.
Though Tolkien’s epic romance remains a lodestar for fantasy geeks worldwide, it has also been adopted by myriad Christian commentators. Books on TolkienR