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Title: Complete missunderstanding of the life of Tolkien
Review: The book is very interesting, but just because it deals with the life of an extremely interesting person, not because of its quality, insight or information.I am specialy angry with one comment that the author did: he says that the Tolkien world is essentially a Christian world. This is absolutely false!!! Can't you see, Mr. Carpenter, that the world set up by Tolkien is based on Nordic pre-christian religions???!!! The source for all his mythology and characterization are germanic and anglo-saxon sources (Beowulf, Sagas, etc) Tolkien has more to do with a heroic Saga-like world than with a humble Christian one.
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