The Silmarillion A New Age Religion ? Options

With the growing interest in translating Tolkien's works into something more than fantasy, and the current creationist furor, might we not in future see the `Sil' taught in schools as an alternative creationist legend, [oophs sorry truth.]


this site is new and has some interesting links.

http://www.thehiddenrealm.org/

The Tolkienist Legendarium Elven Awakening, an E-group in which the members are in the process of re-creating the original spirituality of the Elves (or at least as close as we can) , and in particular of the "Quendi" or the Elves described in JRR Tolkien's collective Arda or Middle Earth writings, also known as the Legendarium.

Hmmm...
I LOVE Tolkiens work! I think that his amazing stories taken to new horizons as the starting of a new faith is sad and yet compelling. In our present day turmoils of plutarcrasies-run-amok it doesn't surprise me to see people turning toward this mythbased fantasy to establish a new spiritual order. I wonder how many other faiths had their beginnings in just this way?
On a side note, it would be truly awesome for the film makers to FAITHFULLY reproduce one of the stories in Tolkiens Silmarillion (example: The Simarills). I'd even like them to produce The Hobbit...FAITHFULLY! The last epic of the Rings was not faithful and as such, IMHO, a let down... Hollywood writers can't hold a candle to a master storyteller! One wonders why they didn't use Christopher Tolkien as the consultant? *sigh* (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused012.gif)