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J.R.R. Tolkien's Letter #89 To Christopher Tolkien
7-8 November 1944 (FS 60)
20 Northmoor Road, Oxford

...But at the story of the little boy (which is a fully attested fact of course) with its apparent sad ending and then its sudden unhoped-for happy ending, I was deeply moved and had that peculiar emotion we all have – though not often. It is quite unlike any other sensation. And all of a sudden I realized what it was : the very thing that I have been trying to ...

Updated May 7th 2013 at 04:48 AM by Manwë Súlimo

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Christianity and Theism

I've always had mixed feelings about Bart Ehrman's work. He's a brilliant scholar and communicator, but he also seems dedicated to dismantling Christianity (or at least its historical basis) in the process of writing for the general public. That's just annoying. But understanding he's not in the apologetics business anymore, I find his books rather useful on balance. They're good for swatting down the arguments of skeptics who claim the Bible is completely unreliable and Christianity based entirely ...

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