Well,
Lalwendė, I must object.
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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
What I want to see is something which is unequivocally Christian symbolism which this is not.
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Originally Posted by Lalwendė
I hope you're right that nobody is arguing that LotR is exclusively Christian!
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Do you see the contradiction between these two statements? Just to make it perfectly clear what I see in these two posts: in the first you want to see something that is uniquely Christian, while in the second you hope no-one thinks that such a thing can be produced. You simply cannot have both.
The reason for the "exhibit" format I'm using is to build, as with stones, a tower of evidence, the complete edifice of which will show what the individual parts cannot precisely because they are only parts. To be quite honest, I can only make an educated guess at what we will find, because my process is to read the actual texts and discern to the best of my ability what Tolkien is saying. Surely no-one cares to object to that!?!
Actually, there are a few more summary points that could be added, which I will later, but the evidence is up until now too tenuous to put them out there.
Remember, the test is NOT "is this uniquely Christian", but "does this adequately reflect that which Christians understand about reality"? No one has objected to this statement of the test, and so I'll proceed accordingly.