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wellinghall) wrote2012-02-28 08:32 pm
wellinghall) wrote2012-02-28 08:32 pm
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Tolkien slept here
"Biographer Joseph Pearce says the famous South African poet Roy Campbell saw the Spanish Civil War as a religious conflict between Christianity and atheistic modernism.
In a recent interview with CNA, Pearce said Campbell – who was the inspiration behind the character Aragorn in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings – believes 'the war in Spain was a battle between Christian tradition and atheistic modernism. In other words, he saw it as a religious conflict.'"
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/spanish-civil-war-seen-as-religious-conflict-biographer-says/
In a recent interview with CNA, Pearce said Campbell – who was the inspiration behind the character Aragorn in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings – believes 'the war in Spain was a battle between Christian tradition and atheistic modernism. In other words, he saw it as a religious conflict.'"
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/spanish-civil-war-seen-as-religious-conflict-biographer-says/
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(after doing some digging) It's in Letter 83, and 1944 was mercifully too late for him to have much impact on the character of Aragorn. I thought the description in the letter pretty much states that it was the other way round.
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