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The Catholic Imagination

by Travis Prinzi on January 16, 2008

In the interest of continuing to point you to scholarly works about the Rowling’s great predecessors, this website is a wealth of information on J.R.R. Tolkien:

The Catholic Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien

{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

DontCompare RowlingToTolkien January 17, 2008 at 4:12 am: Joanne Rowling is a Calvinist (a dangerous racist heresy) and Protestant. To compare her ideas with Tolkien is to compare the Truth with the Lie. It simply does not work.
korg20000bc January 17, 2008 at 4:43 am: Such an obvious flame has rarely been seen.

Notice that comparison wasn’t mentioned but a look at Rowling’s fantasy genre predecessors.

Please back up your ridiculous claims or you will have your posts moderated.

Matthew
Travis Prinzi January 17, 2008 at 8:39 am: DontCompare RowlingToTolkien, just to be clear: misinformed comments like that, which are only meant to be imflammatory, won’t be tolerated here.
revgeorge January 17, 2008 at 11:58 am: Okay, Travis, you have got to stop referring us to these great blog sites. First, Lewis & now Tolkien. I don’t have as much time as I did before now that I’m working in a parish full time again. It’s been hard enough as it is to keep up with SOG this last week!
Pauli January 22, 2008 at 11:20 am: Joanne Rowling is a Calvinist (a dangerous racist heresy) and Protestant.

Nice smear. It’s silly to call Calvinism a “racist heresy”. No doubt there are Calvinists who are racists, just like there are Catholics who are racists, as well as Jews, Lutherans, Atheists, etc. It’s natural to compare mythological morality narratives like those of Rowling and Tolkien. Please try not to make Catholics look like a bunch of retards.