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Tolkien’s Catholic Faith Shaped His Mythic Worlds

J.R.R. Tolkien’s deep Catholic convictions, revealed in letters to a Jesuit priest and his own son, guided the spiritual underpinnings of The Lord of the Rings, infusing Middle‑earth with biblical echoes and a sense of divine providence.