Tolkien and the Conversion of Bilbo Baggins

An Example for Everyone

I am a convert to Catholicism. Growing up in the South, I knew little about Catholicism; like many, I thought of it as only another form of Christianity, an ethnic variation practiced by certain nationalities, whether Irish, Italian, Hispanic, etc. But I really gave little thought to it growing up, or to religion in general. I was raised nominally Prote…