The Propriety of Looking to Tolkien's Fiction

Shane O'Mara: I don't think Tolkien's work is all that explicitly theological. He says there are a lot of spiritual resonances in Tolkien, but it's just more imaginative and mythological. "I realized that Lewis takes most of his best ideas for Tolkien," he says. 'It was only after a long period of time of sitting with and exploring what Tolkien had to say"