In the case of Tolkien's work I think it'd be difficult to find a bigger piece of contemporary Western literary canon that's tied more closely to Christianity. Maybe Narnia, but AFAIK that isn't quite as big and influential as Lord of the Rings (and the rest of his works set in Arda) is. And it's definitely turned out to be a good thing!

To the everlasting credit of the Tolkien fandom, this has been known & accepted for decades. That Tolkien himself was a traditionalist Catholic who refused to use any language other than Latin at Mass and whose religious beliefs fundamentally informed his work (which he's straight up said to be the case in one of his letters) is pretty well-known. And although there have been increasing efforts by the woke mob to throw shade at him for this since the mid-2010s (they didn't seem very interested in LOTR at all before that), the aforementioned fandom didn't back down or accommodate the invaders - the collective response has been pretty uniformly 'if you don't like it then fuck off, you don't get to change anything when you aren't worthy of offering up your works as a toilet paper substitute to the master himself'.

It must've helped that 1) until last year, Tolkien's son Christopher was around and a zealous stickler for his father's vision and 2) Tolkien's literary universe being 'of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work' in his own words meant that it was bound to attract a certain core crowd with an inherently anti-woke predisposition. Sadly Christopher Tolkien is now dead, but so far the latter's strong negative reaction to TORN selling out & their consistently (as far as I've seen) negative reception of the tide of bad news about the Amazon series have been encouraging.

In the case of Tolkien's work I think it'd be difficult to find a bigger piece of contemporary Western literary canon that's tied more closely to Christianity. Maybe Narnia, but AFAIK that isn't quite as big and influential as Lord of the Rings (and the rest of his works set in Arda) is. And it's definitely turned out to be a good thing!

To the everlasting credit of the Tolkien fandom, this has been known & accepted for decades. That Tolkien himself was a traditionalist Catholic who refused to use any language other than Latin at Mass and whose religious beliefs fundamentally informed his work (which he's straight up said to be the case in one of his letters) is pretty well-known. And although there have been increasing efforts by the woke mob to throw shade at him for this since the mid-2010s (they didn't seem very interested in LOTR at all before that), the aforementioned fandom didn't back down or accommodate the invaders - the collective response has been pretty uniformly 'if you don't like it then fuck off, you don't get to change anything when you aren't worthy of offering up your works as a toilet paper substitute to the master himself'.

It must've helped that 1) until last year, Tolkien's son Christopher was around and a zealous stickler for his father's vision and 2) Tolkien's literary universe being 'of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work' in his own words meant that it was bound to attract a certain core crowd with an inherently anti-woke predisposition. Sadly Christopher Tolkien is now dead, but so far the latter's strong negative reaction to TORN selling out & their consistently (as far as I've seen) negative reception of the tide of bad news about the Amazon series have been encouraging.

In the case of Tolkien's work I think it'd be difficult to find a bigger piece of contemporary Western literary canon that's tied more closely to Christianity. Maybe Narnia, but AFAIK that isn't quite as big and influential as Lord of the Rings (and the rest of his works set in Arda) is. And it's definitely turned out to be a good thing!

To the everlasting credit of the Tolkien fandom, this has been known & accepted for decades. That Tolkien himself was a traditionalist Catholic who refused to use any language other than Latin at Mass and whose religious beliefs fundamentally informed his work (which he's straight up said to be the case in one of his letters) is pretty well-known. And although there have been increasing efforts by the woke mob to throw shade at him for this since the mid-2010s (they didn't seem very interested in LOTR at all before that), the aforementioned fandom didn't back down or accommodate the invaders - the collective response has been pretty uniformly 'if you don't like it then fuck off, you don't get to change anything when you aren't worthy of offering up your works as a toilet paper substitute to the master himself'.

It must've helped that 1) until last year, Tolkien's son Christopher was around and a zealous stickler for his father's vision and 2) Tolkien's literary universe being 'of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work' in his own words meant that it was bound to attract a certain core crowd with an inherently anti-woke predisposition. Sadly Christopher Tolkien is now dead, but so far the latter's strong negative reaction to TORN selling out & their consistently (as far as I've seen) negative reception of the tide of bad news about the Amazon series have been encouraging.

In the case of Tolkien's work I think it'd be difficult to find a bigger piece of contemporary Western literary canon that's tied more closely to Christianity. Maybe Narnia, but AFAIK that isn't quite as big and influential as Lord of the Rings (and the rest of his works set in Arda) is.

To the everlasting credit of the Tolkien fandom, this has been known & accepted for decades. That Tolkien himself was a traditionalist Catholic who refused to use any language other than Latin at Mass and whose religious beliefs fundamentally informed his work (which he's straight up said to be the case in one of his letters) is pretty well-known. And although there have been increasing efforts by the woke mob to throw shade at him for this since the mid-2010s (they didn't seem very interested in LOTR at all before that), the aforementioned fandom didn't back down or accommodate the invaders - the collective response has been pretty uniformly 'if you don't like it then fuck off, you don't get to change anything when you aren't worthy of offering up your works as a toilet paper substitute to the master himself'.

It must've helped that 1) until last year, Tolkien's son Christopher was around and a zealous stickler for his father's vision and 2) Tolkien's literary universe being 'of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work' in his own words meant that it was bound to attract a certain core crowd with an inherently anti-woke predisposition. Sadly Christopher Tolkien is now dead, but so far the latter's strong negative reaction to TORN selling out & their consistently (as far as I've seen) negative reception of the tide of bad news about the Amazon series have been encouraging.