[PetroniusMaximus]

“If you think the message in LOTR is muddled, I think you either didn’t read it, or didn’t understand it.”

IMHO, the message is too sophisticated for children.

[Corin Stormhands]

IMHO, the message is too sophisticated for children.

For today's children, perhaps. But not necessarily in the era they were written. I read them in high school.

But, the message being too sophisitcated is not the same thing as the message being muddled.