Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-93.82.58.211-20170422153051/@comment-29394996-20170422202922

TheSquidychicken wrote: I believe Tolkien was a Christian, was he not?

EDIT: Just found out he was Roman Catholic.

You can tell he (kinda) based the creation of the world off the way the real world was created--

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"

In the silmarillian Iluvatar sang the world into existance. Yes, he was a Christian, and much of middle earth was based off/inspired by the Bible. (e.g. Gandalf saving his friends then rising and coming back from the darkness)