[SkyPilot]

My 6 year old watched FOTR, and said:

"Daddy, Sauron is supposed to be Satan, right? And the elves are jus like da angels--right Daddy?"

Anyone who can't see the Christian themes in Tolkien is either blind or kidding themselves.

What I find interesting are the PC critics of Tolkien. Western-like characters are the GOOD (the Shire is very English, elvish is close to Dutch, etc), while the language of Mordor is a amalagmation of Arabic and Russian:

Ash nazg durbaturluk
Ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-
ishi krimputal

Tolkien also describes the characters of Far Harad in very Arabic terms.

[Skywalk]

*dons nerd goggles*

Actually, Near Haradrim were Arabic-seeming in appearance and garb, whereas the Far Haradrim were described as having black skin, large and with bright pink tongues, etc. This sounds more like the phenotype of an African Bantu(what we think of as black)