{"id":27433,"date":"2001-08-24T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2001-08-24T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/08\/24\/tolkien-and-christianity-ii-i-recant-2\/"},"modified":"2001-08-24T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2001-08-24T05:01:47","slug":"tolkien-and-christianity-ii-i-recant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/08\/24\/27433-tolkien-and-christianity-ii-i-recant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien and Christianity II &#8211; I recant."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">When I saw the apparently  exhaustively-researched essay on Hollywoodjesus.com I thought &#8216;great, somebody&#8217;s done all the work for me.&#8217; I wish I&#8217;d read through to Greg Wright&#8217;s concluding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodjesus.com\/lord_of_the_rings_return_essay.htm\" target=new>essay,<\/a>  because a number of emails have pointed out that it&#8217;s rubbish. If you want the real skinny on Tolkien&#8217;s faith and the way it&#8217;s mirrored in his work, somebody who&#8217;s done his homework a whole lot better is Joseph Pearce in his book<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireandwater.com\/Books\/default.asp?id=11280\" target=new> &#8220;Tolkien, Man and Myth.&#8221; <\/a>(It&#8217;s out of stock at Amazon and B&#038;N, I notice.) Otherwise a cheaper option is to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/features\/notes\/\">Tehanu&#8217;s Notes<\/a> numbers 6, 7 and 10 which might lead you to think (and read) in a number of different directions which go a lot closer to the truth than Mr. Wright did, methinks.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the apparently exhaustively-researched essay on Hollywoodjesus.com I thought &#8216;great, somebody&#8217;s done all the work for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-78t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}