[FewsOrange]

“In Middle Earth good and evil are clearly defined. There’s a God that’s supposed to be the same as the Biblical one, though he rarely shows up. “

I never spotted any God in LotR. There is good and evil but nothing that looked like religion or God.

I assumed that was deliberate by Tolkien as he was a believer, eg he was involved in the translation of the Jerusalem bible.
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Jerusalem_Bible

[Boogieman]

“I never spotted any God in LotR. There is good and evil but nothing that looked like religion or God.”

True, there are at best some oblique references to it in the LotR novels, but Tolkien doesn’t spell anything out. The closest he gets is when Gandalf is resurrected, since he is obviously changed and not just the same old Gandalf that survived somehow. So that begs the question of who resurrected him.

I think the actual nature of the fictional theology is only explained in the appendixes and in the Silmarillion.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"I never spotted any God in LotR"

No, not in LOTR. The Silmarillion is the backdrop to LOTR, however, with LOTR as a sequel novel. There are many references in LOTR to histories contained in The Silmarillion, in which God is called Eru. And he created Earth and the Valar, which represent the angels. Sauron was a lesser Valar, while so was Gandalf (in disguise).

It doesn't exactly follow the Bible of course but there are Biblical parallels. Middle Earth is supposed to be a fictional mythology. Game of Thrones is purely pagan.