# The Best Introduction To The Mountains *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Jan 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Andy Robertson *02 Jan 2002, 00:33* Hello, board members. I recently came across an essay by Gene Wolfe, explaining what The Lord Of The Rings meant to him. The essay is relevant to Wolfe's own beliefs and faith. I hope that that makes it relevant to a discussion of the Whorl books - which are surely works of Christian apology in the tradition of Lewis and Tolkien. I was very impressed by Wolfe's words, and I purchased from him the right to display the essay on my own website. I am foolish enough to believe that the essay says some important things about Tolkien's work. At any rate it moved me deeply. If you should be interested, it is at: http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/docindex.html Andy Robertson ---