Tolkien:
- Raised Catholic
- Considered his mom a martyr for the faith and said so
- Delayed engagement to Edith because his priest guardian told him to wait
- Major influence in converting C.S. Lewis to Christianity
- Was scandalized by Lewis marrying a divorcée
- Assisted at Mass
- Wrote a positively gut-wrenching imagination of purgatory
- Gave his main character of LOTR the ‘real name’ of Maura and had him destroy the ring, thus saving the world, on March 25th, the date of the Annunciation in the Catholic calendar
- Wrote a creation account that was a very explicit imagination of medieval Catholic understanding
- Said that the single most important thing he left to his son would be a love for the Eucharist
- Post-Vatican II would Very Loudly say the responses at Mass in Latin, embarrassing his grandson
“Oh but he was just culturally Christian!”
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if thanos wanted to kill off half of the population because there weren’t enough resources……..but then snapped half of the vegetation and animals (according to the russos)……..then isn’t he back at square one……………and there aren’t enough resources for the population……………