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wellinghall ([personal profile] 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/