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		<title>Theologian delves into what&#8217;s holy in Hobbits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gandalf and Aragorn, Frodo and Sam, Merry and Pippin are household names now, thanks to the blockbuster film trilogy &#8220;The Lord of the Rings.&#8221; But in the 1960s, when J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s masterful fantasy was first published in paperback in the United States, the books were more underground classic than mass market marvel.
Ralph Wood stumbled upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church to hold Lord of the Rings mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Dutch church that held a Harry Potter mass last year is now planning to celebrate a Lord of the Rings mass.
The Rev Jaap Ridderbos says the mass at the Gorechtchurch, in Haren, is meant to appeal to young people.
Rev Ridderbos says he has spent more than a year trying to find Christian explanations for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How J.R.R. Tolkien became a Christian writer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ring and the cross
The Boston Globe, Dec. 29, 2002
http://www.boston.com/
By Chris Mooney
From their mastery Middle-earth geography to their occasional fluency in Elvish, fans of the &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; books tend to be a pretty knowledgeable bunch. But many would be surprised to learn that J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s great medievalist epic had a co-author: God. According [...]]]></description>
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