What is the general Christian view on fantasy works such as Tolkien's Silmarillion?
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Some time after I had read The Lord of the Rings I bought a copy of Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. I recognised the cover of the book as shown in the Wikipedia article above [1].
Unlike The Lord of the Rings, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I never did get to the end of the Silmarillion. In fact, I don’t recall reading beyond the first chapter. Another book I enjoyed was C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Tolkien was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis. They met while Lewis was teaching at Magdalen College. [2]
Tolkien reputedly said “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” He also wrote that “the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks." [3]
I have taken that advice to heart, and since I became a Christian, I have given up on mythical characters and fantastic plots. I realise this is the personal opinion of one Christian, but I was quite unable to find any Christian sources that mentioned The Silmarillion – which speaks volumes.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion
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