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[wellinghall]

"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/

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[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I don't recall any such mention by Tolkien, but I haven't checked the HoMe index. Pearce talks about Campbell at some length in Tolkien: Man and Myth, but doesn't link him with Aragorn.