Originally posted by Epoch
I'd say he was more gay (who was "special friends" with CS Lewis) than he was christian. From reading LOTRs myself, in entirety, there are NO SIGNIFICANT TIES between those books and the bible. Such parallels would best be described as "grasping at straws"...
no, there are. he pulled a ton of things into his trilogy. he was a master of allegory. but its not just christian stuff. i think the main point of it was for us to be able to connect with the book, not to preach to us.