No Ragnarök, No Armageddon: Pagan and Christian interpretations of The Lord of the Ring.

Critical responses to The Lord of the Rings from its publication up to 1981 (the year in which The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien was first published) often considered pagan and Christian elements in the work. To the extent that pagan and Christian views were opposed to each other, such opposition is gro...

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Published in:	Mythlore Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 5 - 28
Main Author:	THOMPSON-HANDELL, MATTHEW
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Mythopoeic Society Spring/Summer2025
Subjects:	Lord of the Rings book series Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 Christianity Paganism Ambiguity Analogy 20th century (Literary period)
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