Father Francis Morgan gave Tolkien a home and a father. Father Robert Murray gave him the words to describe what he had made.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien — the Oxford philologist who wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and is generally considered the most widely read author of the 20th century — was a lifelong practicing Catholic. He attended daily Mass, went to confession regularly, and described his faith as the foundation of everything he made. That foundation was built, in part, by two priests who entered his life at very different moments and
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