August 12, 2002

LotR and Religion
Tomas

There's been a lot of people who think that LOTR has a lot of connections with Christianity and in part that is true, but it has also very strong influences from other mythologies and religions.

That's the bottom line, Tolkien was creating a mythology for Brittain.

Almost every other culture has had a mytholgy of it's own. The northwest of europe had the mythology with Oden, Tor and the other gods. The ancient greeks and romans had their own mythology, but the Brits didn't really.

There in lies the answer to the similarities between Christianity and LOTR, you have to see your religion as a mythology, and I can garantee that the guys in the past (the cultures named above) believed in their mythology/religion just as much as we do today.

Now what do you think of that?