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>> No.21920564

>>21920554
No it isn’t. It’s 95% informed by “paganism” 4% informed by modernity and 1% christian which is indistinguishable from one denomination or another. Obviously the more Catholic work is from Lewis.
You’re looking for Dante’s Infernal comedia

>> No.21920654

>>21920564
>Obviously the more Catholic work is from Lewis
I've only read a bit of him (Mere Christianity and Screwtape), but he was Anglican, right? Why do Catholics like him so much?

>> No.21920730

>>21920564
t. knows nothing about Tolkien at all

>> No.21920738

>>21920730
I know he recanted his Catholicism on his deathbed.

>> No.21920739

>>21920738
Prove it.

>> No.21920757

>>21920738
Uh huh.

>> No.21920769

>>21920738
Reverted to Islam.

>> No.21920928

>>21920564
>Lewis more Catholic than Tolkein
Lewis was an Anglican, retard
>Dante's "Infernal comedia"
Say Inferno, Divine Comedy, or Divina Commedia instead, that sounds pseud as fuck

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>>21920738

>> No.21921834

JRR Tolkien probably just converted to Roman Catholicism because he wanted to be a rich and cultured tradfag who could claim the honor of being above lower class Prottie scum.

>> No.21921851

>>21921834
This is terribly uninformed.
>probably just converted
born to a catholic family, he and his brother were raised mostly by a catholic priest
>wanted to be a rich and cultured tradfag
he certainly wanted to be well educated and cultured. The Hobbit puts his opinions on amassing wealth fully on display.
>claim the honor of being above lower class Prottie scum
He was Catholic. in England. He was the lower class.

>> No.21921871

>>21920554
The power and the glory by Greene

>> No.21921917

>>21921851
His father was a bank director in South Africa, and he lived in the late 19th/20th century, long after the Roman Catholic emancipation. His family was not Irish, and he was able to go to university at the University of Oxford, rather than the University of London. He never had to work as a child in a factory, and he never had to get a day job outside of academia/the armed forces to pay for his literary pursuits. That guy had it better than most.