I am a Christian, and of course what I write is, of course, Christian. I mean, I don't mean that I've tried to make it Christian at all, it's not Christian in that sense. It's not propaganda. It is a story, and the Christian element is in it of course, because I am a Christian.
— J.R.R. Tolkien Modern

Lord of the Rings

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1968

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