I dunno. I read The Hobbit and the trilogy when I was a Catholic seminary student, and didn't get any Christian imagery out of it at all. It was just a good story.

We had to watch Bergman films when I was in the seminary, and then there was all this discussion about characters who were Christ-figures in the movies. I thought the movies were boring, but I was in the minority. I didn't get the Christ-figure stuff at all.

Now, Ingrid Bergman is another story. She was far more interesting. I guess that's why did didn't make it into the priesthood, huh?

Yes, but we'll always have Paris...

-Joe Offer-