Tolkien, I'm Not a God, Not Yet.

Tolkien referred to the valor as gods in his earliest versions. But he moved away from that when he began to want more and more to take out overt religious references. Tolkien, if you want to understand his work, you have to take Catholicism as a truth to him. He felt Christianity was far too much an element of the primary world.

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