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Tolkien stated that the Lord of the Rings did not have a message, that he did not wish to preach.
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I don't think we should disregard the previous quotes I gave about the intended motives. As he said, one can't write a story for adults concerning only danger and escape.
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As I've said before, Christianity, Catholicism or any other religion does not have the monopoly on Death. Mortality is the major theme of the Northern myth which Tolkien also loved, this literature dealt in Death. Tolkien's dwelling upon it cannot be taken as a signpost to his religion as it is a deeper and wider concern.
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I think that at least the two of us have gone through this before; neither I, nor anyone else on this site, as far as I am aware, ever claimed that a single idea or event is uniquely Christian; I actually considered including this statement in my previous post, but I deleted the paragraph, I didn't think it was necessary
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So the conflict is, as Scull & Hammond say, about fighting the 'ultimate evil', worship of Sauron and Morgoth.
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I am sorry for the blunder, it was not intended. Thanks for the correction.