Be LotR be an allegory fer fightin' Communism?

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Originally Posted by Squidy the Navigator

I find 't a tad judgemental t' assume th' nature o' this based on th' language 'tis written in. Th' real question t'ain't if 'tis serious, but whether or nay any o' 't has merit.

Twas no a judgement based on yer grammer 'nd such (or the lack thereo'). Twas based on the preposterous s'ggistion put ferth.

On a more serious note, I could take you as a literate (but misguided) pirate-like fan of Tolkien, until I reached the end of your message:

Originally Posted by Squidy the Navigator

O' course, in order t' write th' book, J.R.R. Tolkien would need foreknowledge o' future events. Either that or he be jus' very good at predictin' things, or more likely... he`s John Titor. John Titor, famous time traveler sent from th' future t' retrieve a computer model only available in th' 70`s. Rather than simply changin' th' clock settings on th' computer or settin' up a new OS, th' military sends th' lad's aft in time. This be consistant wi' th' wasteful nature o' militaries everywhere. Why John titor would set sail aft an' time t' write anti-communist fantasy work be beyond me, but perhaps he needed a steam press from that era an' had some time t' kill.

In conclusion, John Titor be clearly a time-travelin' anti-Semite who hated Communism. Ya scurvy dog!

I find it inconsistent that someone who spends so much time writing in a pirate-like tongue while remaining completely understandable would put forth a proposition such as this.

There are many people out there who come online and ask the forums if Tolkien was writing an allegory "did such and such mean something?" to be patiently directed to Tolkien's foreword. I imagine that there are even people who have come online raging that Tolkien was an anti-Semite, only be be (very patiently) directed to a letter of Tolkien's to the German (Nazi) Government in response to a request concerning his origins, in which he states that he has no known Jewish ancestry, a fact that he rather regrets.

But I don't believe that anyone has yet suggested that Tolkien was a time-traveller in the employ of some modern/futuristic military. So my apologies if it seems incredulous that I have a hard time swallowing it.