Thank you, my FRiend...Tolkien went outta his way to distance his writings from religious analogies, but it is impossible for me to read him without thinking in such terms as "Good vs. Evil" (aka Right vs. Left). Americans have become spoiled by our Right to FReeSpeech in that we do not appreciate the danger writers have historically placed themselves in when they
FightAgainstThePOWERSthatBe with their words. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Orwell...the words these folks wrote could have resulted in the deaths of these writers were the BadGuys to have won WWII or the Cold War, so I believe it is almost our duty to see the underlying themes in these works that even the writers themselves may have denied at the time.
FReegards...MUD