![]() ![]() Since his father had died when he was four years old, a priest of the Birmingham Oratory became his legal guardian: Father Francis Morgan. “In consequence of her conversion, the family was plunged into penury, and Tolkien, into his dying day, considered his mother a martyr for the faith,” Pearce said. His mother died when he was only 14 years old after suffering persecution for becoming Catholic, something he always admired about her. “So, he’s not strictly speaking a cradle Catholic, but a convert, in the sense that he was received into the Church when he was 8 years old, following the reception of the Church of his mother… and he remained a practicing Catholic to his death.” “Tolkien is what I call a ‘cradle convert,’” Pearce said. He has written several books on Tolkien, including a biography titled Tolkien: Man and Myth and Frodo’s Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings. The Denver Catholic spoke with Joseph Pearce, Director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute, editor of Faith & Culture and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, about this matter. In fact, his writings are inundated with allusions to the Catholic faith. And although the movie carrying his name highlighted the fact that Tolkien grew up in a Catholic environment and showed some of the experiences that would inspire his writings, it did not show how his deep Catholic faith served as one of the most essential inspirations in the creation of his most famous books. “ The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work,” J.R.R. ![]()
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