Lord of the Rings and Catholicism

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I’m tasked with doing a Catholic presentation for a catholic group. I decided to do it on lord of the rings and how the role Catholicism plays in Jrr tolkien’s work. Can anyone help me out in telling me the parallels between lord of the rings and Catholicism?

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I love how Gaberilia is represents the Virgin Mary how do you spell her name
 
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20 Ways The Lord of the Rings Is Both Christian and Catholic

Thanks to the vision and persistence of Kiwi filmmaker Peter Jackson and the financial backing of Warner Brothers' New Line Cinema, these great storie...
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I also like how Lempas bread correct me if im wrong is represents the Eucharist

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On this Holy Thursday, Catholics celebrate Christ’s institution of the Eucharist, or the Last Supper as it is commonly referred to. Tolkien himself held a strong devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, which Catholics believe to be the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Tolkien s
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Be very wary of looking for any specific Catholic messages in the work.

Tolkien himself said "I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. " (As I recall, he said that specifically in relation to C.S.Lewis’s Narnia series, which is strongly allegorical).

On the other hand, he said "“The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.”

There’s a good discussion of this at…

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