The Silmarillion: A Study Of Tolkien's Christianity

Because Tolkien has his own interpretation and belief in Christianity, he starts a new chapter of fiction novel, and uses many unique ways to express his Christian view of life to bear on his fictional scholarships. First of all, most of his myths have many parallels and connections to biblical stories. In The Silmarillion, a fantasy fiction novel of Tolkien’s mythopoeic works, Tolkien depicts the entire history of his fictional world, and there is a Holy Creator, who is named Ilúvatar. At the beginning of Tolkien’s world, Ilúvatar made the Ainurs by his thoughts and “they[Ainur] made a great music before him[Ilúvatar]. In this Music the World was begun; for Ilúvatar made visible the song of the Ainur, and they beheld it as a light ”(Tolkien 25). …show more content…
For examples, Frodo and Gandalf may be seen as Christ-figures, who sacrifice themselves to save their companions and kingdom and give them hope. That is because Tolkien’s “Christian devotion entails a spirituality much more like the battlefield heroism celebrated by the Anglo-Saxons”(Morrow 166) and believed in honor to sacrifice individual to rescue the big one on a personal loyalty to the goodness of a master. Because Tolkien’s Christianity faith established a profound moral standard in his mind, his heroes are not flawed and never give way to evil. On the other hand, the antagonist of the entire fiction, Melkor, is absolutely evil. Melkor is the most powerful one of the Ainur who challenged Ilúvatar’s theme because of his pride, and he starts to corrupt, which parallels the role of Lucifer; Melkor eventually has fallen in the battles between good and evils, just as Lucifer falling from heaven. Tolkien uses an entirely new type of methods to depict the Catholic Christian view of life and shows it to people through his symbolism and parallels from his fictional stories, which other writers have not accomplished