Rationality & Christianity: Mutually Exclusive?

[Gilrandir]

I have to be honest though, it would suck to be a catholic for example, then find out Mormons were right all along. Or to simply discover it was actually some died off faith from the antiquity thus we are all doomed to the eternal hell fires for not being true believers..

The latter a flawed premise since the idea of hell as a pit full of fire is the Christian one. Other religions have different visions on what is hell and what can cause your abiding there. Who knows, you may get to Valhalla, after all.

An extraordinarily Latin Christian one. Gandalf is a straight up Angel (albeit of a lesser host) after all.

There are many more parallels (or invocations) of the Bible in Tolkien's works. I have a book called The battle for Middle-earth in which the author exposes all religious implications of Tolkien's legendarium (perhaps even those of which Tolkien wasn't conscious).

Yes, and it's all overseen by a God that may or may not get directly involved - we're not exactly sure.

As The Silmarillion shows, the last direct intervention of Eru (the God) happened when Numenor was destroyed. But even before that such interventions were extremely rare. Eru's will worked rather through the will of the Valar.

Oops, I'm sorry. If Beskar spots as much as three sentence in a row on a deviant topic, he will split the thread. Be cautious guys.