I think that you can compare Tolkien's books to just about anything in our world or in our history. His books have so many themes that are relevant today, that it is very easy to compare, say, Eowyn's killing of the Witch-King, to the overthrow of an oppressive government.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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