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. ...
Coates considers the crusades to result from a stance to war rooted in mili- tarism, where war was considered a religious vehicle (Coates, 1997, p. 46).24. Isildur cut the Ring from the physical hand of the fallen Sauron after he was defeated in the Second Age. Consequently, both ...
Recently there was a television program on ancient aliens, and one of the episodes described Garuda as a spaceship and Vishnu as an alien Lord. It is not true. No ancient aliens visited India and established the Vedic culture. It was a religious tradition whose roots are in the Vedas. The...
"These Bars inclose the wider Den "Of those wild Creatures, called Men. "The Cloyster outward shuts its Gates, "And, from us, locks on them the Grates. "Here we, in shining Armour white, "Like Virgin Amazons do fight. "And our chast Lamps we hourly trim, "Lest the great Bridegroom...
She-Who-Hides-Her-Lord and Her Guardian Falcons: Some Religious Symbolism in the Landscape at AbydosKraemer, Bryan
J. R. R. Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic, and claimed in a letter that The Lord of the Rings was "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work." He explained that the Christianity to be found in it was "absorbed into the story and the symbolism." Not much scholarly attention has ...