| This article is about the book. For the video games, see The Battle for Middle-earth video game series. |
The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings, by writer and Episcopal priest Fleming Rutledge, explores the narrative of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to show Biblical and other Christian influences.
- "Rutledge smartly argues that Tolkien's mythology is an immense and intense theological drama, with God at the very center of the plot. And, even if God remains unseen in Middle-earth, He is no more unseen than in our present, postmodern world. Certainly Tolkien had no trouble seeing Him, and, according to Rutledge's excellent book, we shouldn't either — in this world or in Middle-earth. Grace abounds throughout all of creation."
- —Bradley J. Birzer