Latest post in my blog on popular science:
Christianity and Anti-Christianity in Fantasy and Science Fiction
https://populscience.blogspot.com/2025/11/christianity-and-anti-christianity-in.html
Regards,
Manuel, you write that “the Christian character of such famous literary works as J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings or C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia cannot be denied”. That is certainly true for Narnia, but Lewis said that The Lord of the Rings was “sub-Christian” (like Vergil’s Aeneid). Why would you disagree?
Dimitry
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Love will last forever.” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8)
Well, I explain it in the book, but I’ll copy here the most apposite paragraph:
The work describes the eternal struggle between good and evil, the latter represented by Sauron, who, as Lord of the Rings, gives the trilogy its name, albeit he never appears explicitly, a wise decision by Tolkien. Gandalf, one of the main characters, offers his life to save his friends and later resurrects, but he does not directly represent Christ, as is the case with Aslan in the Narnia Chronicles, for he is not God made man (or lion), but a lower rank spiritual being, somewhat equivalent to an angel.
I don’t agree with Lewis’s comparison with Virgil. Virgil couldn’t know about Christianity, for Christ had not yet been born. Tolkien, however, did know, and his knowledge is apparent in his work.
Regards,