According to its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings “is, of course, a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.”
aFollowing de Brosses, the concept was further developed by Auguste Comte as necessary in the development of religion from an individualistic to an organized form. He saw fetishism as the first step in the evolution of the religious ideas of polytheism and monotheism. He too, like de Brosses...
Thomas Wagner
The zeal with which many tourists visit these sites has similarities to the religious pilgrimage, not only in terms of the degree of enthusiasm invoked, but also in rituals of knowledge, ardour and "spiritual" envisioning. The global fantasy industry thus fosters alternative and dualistic ...
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, ...
The best Christmas movies of all time? The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Extended edition. Hear us out.
Stalinism was officially rejected as irrational, quasi-religious, mythical, ritualistic, and dogmatic. It is thus only natural that post-Stalinist Russian philosophy sought to be rationalist, analytical, and scientific—or at least close to the sciences. Looking at a list of the most prominent rep...
R. R. Tolkien's spiritual biography--his religious scholarship and his love of both Christian and pagan myth--Stratford Caldecott offers a critical study of how the acclaimed author effectively created a vivid Middle Earth using the familiar rites and ceremonies of human history. And while ...
Concerning The Lord of the Rings he wrote that it was “a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision…the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.”3 It is not, for instance, generally well known that C.S. ...
, the idea that someone facing a massive worm monster has semi-religious significance is the basic importance of this scene. in a sense, queen míriel facing the sea worm is a bit like taking the water of life and riding shai-hulud at the same time. this is all to say that this ...