The Story that every story longed to be true and anticipated in some vague sense, was incarnate and made true in the God/Man, Jesus Christ, and His death and resurrection. Tolkien believed that in Jesus Christ, all “myth” was fulfilled. Nevertheless, Tolkien’s Catholic Christianity is woven throughout Middle Earth. Things in his story do not stand for something else. All of that drama resolved by an accident? Fortunately for Middle Earth, the wraith-like, pitiable creature, Gollum, bit Frodo’s finger off in order to have the Ring again for his own, and accidentally slipped and fell into the fires, saving Middle Earth in the bargain. Everything he loved, his home, his friends, every scrap of goodness, depended on the Ring being tossed into those fires, and, when it came down to it, he was unable to let it go. Frodo, ring-bearer, fails to throw the Ring into the fires of Mt. If you’re a reader of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (or just a movie-goer), then you know that the central, heroic character, the young Mr.
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