The willingness to sacrifice all for love.
Of all the Catholic authors of the last century, JRR Tolkien is the best read – and astonishingly draws his readers, without any warning, into a Catholic mind.
He does this with such sensitivity and subtlety that there is some scope for the Church, as part of its evangelistic and apologetic task, to offer to help our culture with the interpret-ation of what they find so entrancing, inspiring and beautiful. For the Catholic Church shares the same mould as the mind of Tolkien.
