« On one level his devotion to Catholicism is explicable solely as a spiritual matter ; on another, it was bound up very closely with his love for the mother who had made him a Catholic and who had died (he believed) for her Catholicism. Indeed one can see his love for her memory as a governing motive throughout his life and writings" (in 'JRR Tolkien A Biography' de Humphrey Carpenter, p.133).
Et puisque l'on sait que : « The Lord of the Rings' is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out practically all references to anything like 'religion,' to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and symbolism … and should chiefly be grateful for having been brought up (since I was 8) in a Faith that has nourished me and taught me all the little that I know ; and that I owe to my mother, who clung to her conversion and died young, largely through the hardships of poverty resulting from it" ( L142, p.172, 1953).
Ce que j’ai aussi remarqué, ce sont les hommes qui traitent Tolkien de sexiste, y a-t-il qqchose qui vous manque dans ses écrits :)
Mais est-ce bien l'endroit d'en discuter ?
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Cathy