Tolkien and philosophy

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Upon viewing some of the topics classed as being "Hot Topics" by the moderators, I noticed one thing common to most of them. Allot of the more popular topics that have many replies, "Canonicity, the book or the reader" being the most recent, seem to follow a lot of philosophical arguments. For example, the free will given to people, what is truth ect. I don’t mean there will be a topic like "If a tree falls in Fangorn, and there is no Ent around to hear it, does it make a sound?" or "What is the sound of one Elven hand clapping".

Tolkien was not a philosopher. That is plain enough. So are we taking things a little far?

Topics such as "Do men and elves worship Eru?" become detoured in most part from what they originally were and we may find ourselves turning it into "Did Eru exist". I may, excaudate, but Do you see what I mean?

Middle earth and all its history is not an Allegorical world. As Tolkien himself says, it is more Applicable.

Manny people mistake Allegory for applicability...
J.R.R.Tolkien Forward to the Lord of the rings

So we can settle many ideas like that. If we begin to get into a deep philosophical discussion, somebody is bound to bring that up and the topic usually tails off...

So Would I be rite in assuming that as the years go on, the Philosophical points viewed in Lort will be changed dew to modern thinking.
In the year 2060 will there be topics with the title "Was the ring some kind of super intelligent trans directional being?" Or will these views stay the same?
Are we seeing things that aren’t really there?
Or was Tolkein secretly interested in philosophy?
Write your answers down now!