Carl F. Hostetter [Tolkien] concludes that the story of the Incarnation and Resurrection of Christ has pre-eminently the inner consistency of reality. There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many skeptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. Accordingly, to reject this story, Tolkien suggests, is not, as some moderns would contend, an act of intellectual probity, but rather of spiritual self-mutilation, an amputation of ones own deepest aspirations, and hence leads either to sadness or to wrath. YEP.
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