Okay, mean English teacher coming out: no, most of this isn't fact. This is just someone's opinion. A well reasoned opinion, I won't argue. Looks like someone's thesis. It would be an interesting thesis to do. (I'm sure it's been done many times).
When an author uses phrases like "I believe", and "grand", that suggests its his opinion. There are a few facts interspersed, but it's primarily a thesis statement, and a well reasoned argument.
One fact from this is: some scholars believe LOTR has christian themes.
PS, you might consider citing referenes of academic work. Someone spent a lot of time (probably years) doing this work.
Originally posted by lotrfreak
These are just facts:
Yet Tolkien's grand book has outlasted its cult-status. The Lord of the Rings is an undeniable classic: a work which invites repeated readings without exhausting its potential to deepen and define our moral and spiritual lives. Young and old alike keep returning to these big books for both wisdom and delight. True fantasy, Tolkien declared in his 1939 essay "On Fairy-Stories," is escapist in the good sense: it enables us to flee into reality. The strange new world of hobbits and elves and ents frees us from bondage to the pseudo-reality that most of us inhabit: a world deadened by bleary familiarity. Fantasy helps us recover an enlivened sense of wonder, Tolkien observed in this same essay, about such ordinary things "as stone, and wood, and iron; tree and grass; house and fire; bread and wine."
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