April 21, 2002

In Answer to Quirk
Ricahrd P.

Your point of view about Tolkien's Lord of the Rings showing Deisim is essentially wrong. This is because Lord of the Rings is only one small part of a larger work, in which the Silmarillion and Unifinished Tales play a large part. In these books you will see that there are much more than just one God, there are many, and lots of them take a vested interest in Middle-earth; in some cases even Eru, the first original god himself.