Tolkien post of the week

Tolkien's LOTR and other writings have deep roots, not only in Germanic legends, his war experience, and his grounding in his family/the importance of ordinary life, but in Catholicism.

DiscerningHearts podcast has a series on the religious themes in the book.

I find it interesting that the picture they chose s Frodo looking over the wilderness of Emyn Muil at the start of the Two Towers.