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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 327074" data-attributes="member: 2795">Grrr!I cannot understand this (yet have encountered it to a certain extent). I teach at a Catholic school, and I am also enthralled by fantasy and mythology (and this is no secret). Tolkien himself was a devout Catholic, and LOTR cannot be correctly understood without recourse to New Testament theology.Another oft-mentioned author in this thread, C. S. Lewis, while not Catholic, was also a very devout Christian who wrote extraordinary fantasy. Then there's L'Engle, also Catholic; Chesterton, who wrote a little fantasy/allegory (also Catholic). The list could go on, but I'm sure the point is made.I took my 7th grade reading class to see LOTR last year. As a result, at least 3 of the students (out of about 20) read at least Fellowship.As for my early influences, Tolkien wasn't really on the radar. What was included Burroughs, Lovecraft, Howard, Zelazny, Moorcock, the author of my first hefty novel entitled Dragonworld (forget the author's name), Bullfinch's Mythology, thousands of comic books, and a trunk-load of horror authors such as Stephen King, Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, et cetera.Nowadays, however, about the only fiction I read is comic books.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Chance, post: 327074, member: 2795"] [b]Grrr![/b] I cannot understand this (yet have encountered it to a certain extent). I teach at a Catholic school, and I am also enthralled by fantasy and mythology (and this is no secret). Tolkien himself was a devout Catholic, and LOTR cannot be correctly understood without recourse to New Testament theology. Another oft-mentioned author in this thread, C. S. Lewis, while not Catholic, was also a very devout Christian who wrote extraordinary fantasy. Then there's L'Engle, also Catholic; Chesterton, who wrote a little fantasy/allegory (also Catholic). The list could go on, but I'm sure the point is made. I took my 7th grade reading class to see LOTR last year. As a result, at least 3 of the students (out of about 20) read at least Fellowship. As for my early influences, Tolkien wasn't really on the radar. What was included Burroughs, Lovecraft, Howard, Zelazny, Moorcock, the author of my first hefty novel entitled Dragonworld (forget the author's name), Bullfinch's Mythology, thousands of comic books, and a trunk-load of horror authors such as Stephen King, Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, et cetera. Nowadays, however, about the only fiction I read is comic books. [/QUOTE]

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