Google results for: Lord of the Rings christian symbolism: 88 million results. The first few seem compelling to me. I’m going to go ahead and declare victory and await your official protest.
23 posted on 09/12/2011 5:22:24 PM PDT by HMS Surprise
(Chris Christie can go to hell.)
And Google "Tolkien Wagner" and you get a plethora of RESULTS. I first read LOTR as a teenager and even then I was struck by how similar it was to Wagner's Ring Cycle.
26 posted on 09/12/2011 5:34:12 PM PDT by PJ-Comix