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On the other hand, although the quote still reads as very outdated and short-sighted, it's not entirely wrong. It depends what the authors thought Tolkien was actually trying to accomplish. His myth-writing, after all, hasn't been incorporated into our own to any great extent. Few would argue that the LOTR trilogy is our own past.

It's funny how the LOTR series has had its reputation cleaned up in the meantime, especially the current contrast between Harry Potter = satanism and the correctly Christian nature of LOTR.