Salut Yyr et Firnafin,
Yyr >>> Et pourtant "Flieger...states that Tolkien's religion was on one hand a solace for his loss, but was also somewhat responsible for his mother's death- and so created a paradox in Tolkien's character that manifested itself in his writings..."
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Plus loin:" "My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith". Tolkien's description of his mother's sacrifice as an "easy" way to God is hard to fathom, for it is clear that the shock of his mother's death affected him deeply....This is more than polarity; it is paradox...The very thing which gave him his faith robbed him of his mother, and thus mixed with that faith a sense of irretrievable loss".
(Splinteres LIght, p.2-3).
Cathy