This was true in the U.S. Civil War too, and the Union's winning story was, "We must break the Slave Power by any means necessary, because owning human beings is morally and ethically abominable."
Tom Emanuel
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Theologian. Tolkien scholar. PhD on The Lord of the Rings and Post-Christianity from the University of Glasgow. Dad. He/him. All views my own. Blog: queerandback.substack.com Contact: thomas.k.emanuel(at)gmail.com
![Screenshot of the landing page for an academic article in the journal Mythlore: "It is 'about' nothing but itself': Tolkienian Theology Beyond the Domination of the Author" by Tom Emanuel (yours truly). The abstract is too long to include in its entirety, but here are the key sentences:
"There is a broad stream of Christian interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction, especially The Lord of the Rings, which views it as the intentionally, essentially Christian work of an intentionally, essentially Christian author... [This article] proposes a hermeneutics of Tolkienian of Tolkienian inspiration that honors Tolkien's Roman Catholic foundations, the sub-creative integrity of his secondary world, and the religious diversity of the readers who draw such deep wells of meaning from it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:to3v26zpyqku3jypuvgkiqg5/bafkreih6camxlsewgwxiiqwzwlubam5tksrm5dcgge4pu3vzqfdt6d5zny)
