did it have an allegory?
Yes, Anne C. Petty, writing in the "J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia", notes that Tolkien was all the same quite capable of using "allegorical elements when it suited his purpose", and that he agreed that the approach of war in 1938 "had had some effect on it"
One Ring
Anne C. Petty, writing in the "J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia", notes that Tolkien was all the same quite capable of using "allegorical elements when it suited his purpose", and that he agreed that the approach of war in 1938 "had had some effect on it": "Lord of the Rings" was applicable to the horror of war in general, as long as it was not taken as a point-by-point allegory of any particular war, with false equations like "Sauron=Satan or Hitler or Stalin, Gandalf=God or Churchill, Aragorn=Christ or MacArthur, the Ring=the atomic bomb, Mordor=Hell or Russia or Germany".
what does the lord of the rings ring say UNANSWERABLE who made the 'one ring'? Sauron was he known by other names? UNANSWERABLE where was it made? Mount Doom where exactly is this place? It is located in the northwest of the Black Land of Mordor and close to Barad-dûr did the mount have another name? UNANSWERABLE from which book is this? "The Lord of the Rings" who is the author? J.R.R. Tolkien what are the names of some of the characters? Frodo, Sam, Sauron was a movie made on this book? Yes, "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy how did the ring look? The Ring seemed to be made simply of gold what was its purpose? To gain dominion over the free peoples of Middle-earth what powers did it have? The Ring's primary power was control of the other Rings of Power and domination of the wills of their users, and mortal wearing the Ring became effectively invisible except to those able to perceive the non-physical world, with only a thin, shaky shadow discernible in the brightest sunlight. what were the names of the ring bearers? Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam
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One Ring [SEP] Allegory
Tolkien stated that "The Lord of the Rings" was not a point-by-point allegory, particularly not of political events of his time such as the Second World War. At the same time he contrasted "applicability", which he described as "within the "freedom of the reader", and "allegory" as ""the purposed domination of the author". He stated that had the Second World War "inspired or directed the development of the legend" as an allegory, then the fate of the Ring, and of Middle-earth, would have been very different: Anne C. Petty, writing in the "J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia", notes that Tolkien was all the same quite capable of using "allegorical elements when it suited his purpose", and that he agreed that the approach of war in 1938 "had had some effect on it": "Lord of the Rings" was applicable to the horror of war in general, as long as it was not taken as a point-by-point allegory of any particular war, with false equations like "Sauron=Satan or Hitler or Stalin, Gandalf=God or Churchill, Aragorn=Christ or MacArthur, the Ring=the atomic bomb, Mordor=Hell or Russia or Germany".