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Was able to find it through Tokien Gateway (a really great reference, BTW), Letter 213: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_213 http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki
by Merad 6y ago
Was able to find it through Tokien Gateway (a really great reference, BTW), Letter 213: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_213 http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_213
> From [Tolkien's] works one could deduce the Christianity but not perhaps the Roman Catholicism, except that one critic related invocations the Elbereth and Galadriel's character to Catholic devotion to Mary. Another saw lembas, which fed the will and became more potent when fasting, as derived from the Eucharist.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoFrom your link (written in rather grammatically flawed English) it is unclear whether Tolkien intended that symbolism, or if he was only relating that a third party claimed that symbolism in his work.