 Lord of the Rings being in Tolkien's own words and I'm quoting the Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work and in my opinion it's not just a religious and Catholic work it's one of the greatest works of the 20th century perhaps and arguably the greatest work of the 20th century and also in my judgment one of the great works of western civilization deserving a place beside Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Ineared, Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the really great works and great achievements of Christian civilization.