Ten'oio, have a browse around the various threads and you will soon find pretty convincing evidence that JRRT did not intend his works to be allegorical in any way (and, as I have been reminded recently, allegory requires intention).
Of course, that does not stop them being applicable. You can take from the works what you will and apply them to your own views and beliefs. But that does not stop people of different beliefs enjoying them just as much.
Sorry if that sounds a little terse. It's not meant in that way. It's just that I get quite annoyed by the implication (present in a number of posts that I have seen on various threads) that I cannot enjoy the Professor's works as much as others because I am not a practising Christian.
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