And again we will have to agree to disagree… this is neither fantasy nor science fiction…. like Lewis Tolkien wrote allegory. Perhaps you wanted something that was whiz bang and that was NEVER the intent of Tolkien. Like Lewis he tells the universal story of God’s battle with Lucifer. It manifests in many realms in many ways.
Yes I have read lots of fantasy and science fiction and neither Tolkien nor Lewis fit those categories
Tolkien is universally considered Fantasy. There is no doubt about that fact. Although he may have been writing it as an allegory about his time in the war, but he also wrote The Hobbit, and the Silmarillion. All fantasy. To say Tolkien does not fit the fantasy category does not make sense. When it’s generally considered the elf/orc/human/magic/big bad ground breaker.