[The Flying Dutchman]

I know The Professor hated allegories in his works, but there's a big one, there.

It's what every soldier dreads: that they come home victorious from the war, to find their home in ruins.

That's what The Left's seems to be trying so hard to do...

[Corin Stormhands]

It's amazing how much he hated the allegories when there are so many in the books. I've mentioned this before (but around here that rarely stops us), but I did my freshman research paper on "The Christlike Symbolism in The Lord of the Rings"...

Frodo the Deliverer
Gandalf the Resurrected
Aragorn the Triumphant King

Gots me an "A" I did...

[300winmag]

It's what every soldier dreads: that they come home victorious from the war, to find their home in ruins.

That's what The Left's seems to be trying so hard to do...

That's not allegory, it's historical fact. And leftists are trying to ruin other people's homes even in peacetime.

More telling than the changes to the Shire was the active indifference of the citizens to the world around them, even after a few of their own came back with stories of worlds undreamt-of. I see this as an an allegory for the Little-Englander. Tolkien didn't write any explicit allegory, but parts of the books take on that aspect just because of the universal truths they address.