Drew Bowling, author of the fine fantasy novel, Tower of Shadows, has just written to me about the launch today in Rome of an exciting new Catholic media initiative. Drew has published a two part article on Tolkien’s Catholicism for the new Aleteia.org website, to which the links are below.
 
Here is Drew’s e-mail to me:
 
Aleteia.org, a new online Catholic media initiative that will be a powerful voice for the New Evangelization, has published a two part article I wrote on how Catholicism influenced Tolkien’s writing. I mention you in the article. 

After just completing their great new website, Aleteia launched in Rome today, and I hear the press conference buzzed with energetic enthusiasm. 

I told Aleteia I would use my Tolkien article to help promote the website’s grand unveiling. From one Tolkien fan to another, I was wondering if you would be willing to post a link to my article on your Ink Desk blog. Your readers would probably find it interesting, and Aleteia (and I) would be grateful. If you want, you can include the following about Aleteia (or substitute a brief message of your own):

“Aleteia.org is a worldwide collaborative online network that brings together active members and over a thousand partner institutions with the aim of answering questions about faith, life, and society, and of bringing these discussions to the forefront in a format that allows them to be easily accessed and shared across the globe in five languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese).”

The links to my two part Tolkien article on Aleteia follow (feel free to post one or both):

Part I: http://www.aleteia.org/en/article/how-did-jrr-tolkien%E2%80%99s-catholicism-influence-his-writing-part-i

Part II: http://www.aleteia.org/en/article/how-did-jrr-tolkien%E2%80%99s-catholicism-influence-his-writing-part-ii