Here's a very interesting essay on the psychological elements in LotR: Tolkien: Archetype and Word .
Lengthy, not easy to get into at the beginning, and well worth reading!
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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