The Hidden Meaning of the Lord of the Rings - Joseph Pearce (Sample)
Channel: Romanian Tolkien Society
Date: 2012-10-17

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Actually, Tolkien did say explicitly that LOTR is "of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work." In his letter written to Fr. Robert Murray on December 2, 1953. To see the letter yourself, you can Google "file:pdf tolkien letters" and open the first result. It's in Letter #142. "The religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism". Tolkien did state that he disliked allegory, but that is another discussion.