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The Lord of the Rings \u2013 A Book Review \u2013 Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

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J. R. R. Tolkien was a devout Christian. He was a member of an informal Christian writer\u2019s society called The Inklings that also included the likes of his old friend C. S. Lewis. In fact, Lewis and Tolkien had planned to divide between them a project to write fantasy and science fiction stories with a Christian world view.\u00a0 Tolkien decided his story would go back to an earlier time and Lewis decided to go into outer space.<\/p>\n

Getting back to Tolkien, when he started writing the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, he was able to set it in a world for which he had long ago written the Genesis story.\u00a0 All of this background was finally published after his death by his son Christopher as the Silmarillion.\u00a0 In this pre-history we are told that God (or as Tolkien called him Eru (The One) or Illuvatar (Father of All)) created the angels (the Ainur which are divided between the archangels (Valar) and the lesser angels (Maiar)).\u00a0 Then He created the Universe (Ea) and particularly our world (Arda) and allowed the Ainur to build out the place where His children, the Elves and Men, would live.\u00a0 Some of those Ainur were loyal to Illuvatar and some were corrupted with the idea of power over lesser beings.\u00a0 The chief of these renegades was Melkor, originally the most powerful Valar, the equivalent of Lucifer.\u00a0 He leads the fallen Ainur against the Valar and is defeated.\u00a0 Later on, he is thought rehabilitated and brought back into the fold by the leader of the Valar, Manwe.<\/p>\n

The Valar are supposed to teach the children of Illuvatar about Him and help them reach their potential in goodness.\u00a0 And they attempt to do this with the Elves, the firstborn of the two races.\u00a0 They bring them into the Blessed Realm where the Valar live and teach them the knowledge that they possess.\u00a0 But even in this Blessed Realm, Melkor plots to destroy the happiness of the Elves and Valar.\u00a0 He destroys the Trees that give light to Arda and steals the jewels, the Silmarils of Feanor, that contain the light of the trees.\u00a0 Feanor, who is the most powerful and proudest of the Elves, disobeys the command of Manwe and sails from the Blessed Realm back to Middle Earth to defeat Melkor (or as he now names him Morgoth, Black Enemy of the World) and regain the Silmarils.\u00a0 For this rebellion all of the Elves and Men in Middle Earth are left to the nonexistent mercy of Morgoth.\u00a0 Essentially, they fight without the help of the Valar.<\/p>\n

And in this rebellion of the Elves against the Valar is the start of the downfall of the world of Elves and Men.\u00a0 For when Men appear, they too are drawn into wars against Morgoth and in these wars they all are thoroughly defeated and immiserated by the powers of evil beings.\u00a0 Finally, a representative of Elves and Men, Earendil sails back to the Blessed Realm and successfully begs the Valar to defeat Morgoth and allow the peoples of Middle Earth to reclaim their lives.\u00a0 And this is done.\u00a0 Morgoth is defeated and cast out of Arda forever.<\/p>\n

But in time evil reappears in the person of Morgoth\u2019s lieutenant, Sauron.\u00a0 He pretends to mend his ways but instead corrupts some of the Elves with the lure of knowledge and power and teaches them to forge rings of power.\u00a0 Then he creates the One Ring to rule all of these lesser rings and makes war on Men and Elves for the mastery of Middle Earth.\u00a0 But he is defeated by the Numenoreans.\u00a0 These are the descendants of the Men who fought against Morgoth in that earlier war and were rewarded with a great island home, Numenor, halfway between Middle Earth and the Blessed Realm.\u00a0 They were also rewarded with a lifespan three times that of mortal men.\u00a0 They come to Middle Earth with a great army and defeat Sauron and take him captive.\u00a0 But Sauron corrupts his captors too.\u00a0 Fear of death was always the weakness of the Numenoreans.\u00a0 They were friends of the Elves but they envied their virtually endless lifespan.\u00a0 When the King of Numenor began to feel the end of his life approaching he gave heed to Sauron who told him he could wrest eternal life from the Valar by conquering the Blessed Realm.\u00a0 When he attempts this war, the Valar, rather than be forced to kill Illuvatar\u2019s children themselves, call on Him to act directly.\u00a0 Illuvatar alters the world to remove the Blessed Realm from the physical plane of the world.\u00a0 In fact, instead of a flat plane, the Earth now becomes a spherical globe from which only ships with special dispensation can any longer sail to the blessed Realm.\u00a0 But this power is still reserved to the Elves in Middle Earth.\u00a0 When they grow weary of the mortal lands, they can sail off the western shore of Middle Earth and find their way to the Blessed Realm which is now considered the proper home for the Elves.<\/p>\n

As part of this reshaping and as a direct punishment for their sin, Numenor sinks below the sea.\u00a0 Only the Numenoreans that had settled in Middle Earth and a few ships of the faithful who were not party to the King\u2019s blasphemy were able to escape the downfall.\u00a0 It is this remnant along with the remaining Elves in Middle Earth who now have to deal with Sauron.\u00a0 Because when Numenor sank he lost his material form but his spirit returned to Middle Earth and joining to the One Ring which he had left in Middle Earth he was able to reform his body and then renew his war against Elves and Men.\u00a0 And once again Elves and Men were victorious against him, though at a terrible cost.\u00a0 The Kings of the Elves and Men, Gil-galad and Elendil are slain by Sauron along with the remaining strength of the Elves.\u00a0 But Elendil\u2019s son Isildur cuts the One Ring from Sauron\u2019s hand, causing him to lose form again.\u00a0 But Isildur refused to destroy the One Ring and it was lost in the Great River, Anduin.\u00a0 And because it was not destroyed Sauron retuned and plagued Middle Earth until the time of the War of the Ring which is the subject matter of The Lord of the Rings.\u00a0 And all down their long history the descendants of Elendil recreated the sins of their ancestors in Numenor and sought power and long life rather than wisdom and happiness.<\/p>\n

Wow, that\u2019s a long prologue.<\/p>\n

If you look over that history what you\u2019ll notice is that it parallels the Old Testament.\u00a0 Of course, there are differences.\u00a0 Fantasy elements like elves, and silmarils don\u2019t occur in the Bible.\u00a0 But you can find analogs for both types of angels, good and evil.\u00a0 There is a flood sent to wipe out transgressors.\u00a0 And the majority of the text describes a chosen people who forget their responsibilities and choose power and lust for earthly possession over wisdom and love.\u00a0 And behind all of the misery stands Lucifer and his successful temptation of Adam and Eve.\u00a0 And that is the basis for the story of Morgoth and Feanor and also the story of Sauron and the elven ringsmiths.\u00a0 They were tempted by the lure of forbidden knowledge to trust the devil.<\/p>\n

Tolkien wanted a fantasy history of the world that would allow him to incorporate the elves, goblins, dwarves and other creatures that inhabit European folklore.\u00a0 But he wanted it to be a Christian universe.\u00a0 And that is what he built.\u00a0 In this world men must contend with a world in which evil is always present but can be defeated by the good people if they stand up against it and don\u2019t allow the evil within themselves to corrupt their intentions.<\/p>\n

And in the Lord of the Rings this can be seen in the fact that all of the greatest of the leaders of the good are afraid to even touch the Ring lest it corrupt them too.\u00a0 It is only the simplest and least sophisticated of creatures, the hobbits, that can resist the ring the longest.<\/p>\n

Casting this worldview behind the story allowed Tolkien the direction he needed to expand the Lord of the Rings into the epic length story it is.\u00a0 In each of the chapters it is the challenge to ignite in each of the allies they meet, the determination to fight the evil no matter how impossible the odds may seem.\u00a0 Often it is the simple hobbits declaring their simple-minded faith in doing the right thing that shames the sophisticated and jaded leaders who up until that point are almost relieved to surrender and allow evil to win the day.<\/p>\n

And having the Christian framework behind the story also gives a sense of the familiar world that most of us have grown up with.\u00a0 And also allows it to act as a contrast to the monstrous evil that Frodo and the other hobbits encounter.\u00a0 So, although Tolkien\u2019s story may resemble other fantasy worlds with respect to the creatures that inhabit it and the magic that exists, he has added a spiritual dimension that he believed would render the stories valid in a deeper sense.\u00a0 From his point of view, they were in a sense true stories because they conveyed his understanding of how God interacted with mortals and angels in the actual world.\u00a0 Interesting idea.<\/p>\n

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The Lord of the Rings \u2013 A Book Review \u2013 Part 3 \u2013 The Various Races or Peoples of Middle Earth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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