What's Your Thoughts on John Tolkin?

Solsenitsen was an atheistic communist when he first entered the camps. He grew to have tremendous admiration for such people, and actually viewed them as exemplars of the mode of being that helped him escape communism. Tolkin's simorilian stories are like the modern bible in a way,. i'm seeing all this, and i'm thinking it is basically what you'd expect if you deal with great mythological themes at the bottom of your story. Soim: It's not a critique of anybody who's drawing on mythology for their narratives. You have to do that to be a good story teller. But it's nice to go as close to the source as you can