Some more Religionless HP universe references.

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@@ -157,7 +157,33 @@ bookmark lists):
    accepting it. Unfortunately, at this point when things were
    getting interesting, the story has been abandoned.
 
-**{end of the insert}**
+**{updated 2023-11-22}**
+
+I forgot few:
+
+10. `Harry Potter and the Knight of the Radiant Heart`_ by
+    Raven3182, which is rather bizarre retelling of the sixth
+    year (starting with the Battle of DoM), where gets
+    a spiritual mentor who leads him to the super!Harry status.
+    The most strange thing is that the main tool on his spiritual
+    journey (aside from the standard physical exercises) is
+    reading of something which looks very much like Saint Thomas
+    Aquinas “Summa Theologie”, but without ever mentioning the
+    words God or Christianity. I hoped for some discussions
+    related to ethics and religion, but the result is
+    unfortunately rather boring superHero soft philosophy (I am
+    not sure whether they mention literally “with great power
+    there must also come great responsibility”, but that kind of
+    fluff) and I quite dislike super!Harry theme.
+
+11. `The Man Who Lived`_ by Luke1813 just for the sake of
+    completness, a story, where Harry achieves everything he
+    wants and feels the emptiness of the life without God. The
+    author has certainly his heart in the right place, but as a
+    literature I was not impressed. Mentioned in the interesting
+    discussion_ on the Reddit by `/u/AntoniusScriptor`_
+
+**{end of the inserts}**
 
 The crazy thing is that it seems to me this is really it. If 
 anybody knows about any other good religious wizarding story (no 
@@ -182,6 +208,19 @@ mocking, no anti-religious) let me know.
    nobody does anything about it. There are no prayers (almost, 
    at least no explicit ones), no sacrifices, no priests, etc.
 
+   Tolkien himself wrote about it:
+
+       The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally
+       religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at
+       first, but consciously in the revision. That is why
+       I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all
+       references to anything like “religion,” to cults or
+       practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious
+       element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.
+
+       -- a letter to a priest, Fr. Robert Murray (The
+       Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 142)
+
 .. _`was the christening`:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20110927060621/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/news_view.cfm?id=80
 
@@ -215,3 +254,15 @@ mocking, no anti-religious) let me know.
 
 .. _PUSH:
    https://archiveofourown.org/works/55647
+
+.. _`Harry Potter and the Knight of the Radiant Heart`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9203082
+
+.. _`The Man Who Lived`:
+   https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13874020
+
+.. _discussion:
+   https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/16k9kwx/comment/k0ul0wa
+
+.. _`/u/AntoniusScriptor`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/user/Antonius_Scriptor/