oy... theres been lotsa debates ab this and i dislike all o dem..anyway,
some say the war o the ring was a allegory of the war on terror (*cough*stupid*cough*), people at time he wrote it sed it was an allegory for world war 2 (i.e. germany was southeast o england...*cough*stupid*cough*) , at which tolkien replied that if his story had been an allegory of world war 2, neither side would have cared for the hobbits and their way o life woulda been crushed, others say its a christian allegory like u sed, others lookin at it from a broader perspective see a mythical fight o good and evil within oneself, like when tolkien sed the ring was the machine, and i say lookin at it too deep shudnt b a concern, cus tolkien would get mad when people asked what the 'meaning' to the story was, and he would say u should not look for meanings like that in these stories, but instead just appreciate them.
Listen, Tolkien specifically stated in a TV interview that he detested allegory in all it's forms. Good enough?
If you want to know what program it is, I can't remember. It was a couple of months back and I was on holiday in Tenerife. I was watching the TV in the room before I was to go out and a Tolkien documentary came on which contained the aforementioned interview.
tolkein did base his stories actually on WW2...it was in a national geographic thing that comes with the special collecters extended fotr version...boromir dying was liike his best friend...who died in WW2....also something about anglo-saxons...and the finnish like 100 book (wiht like 100 pgs each) kalevala...a very VERY long song/story....helped derrive from elvish. got the anglo saxon helmets and designs for like armour and stuff...theres alot of info on that yall should watch it!! ✅ its a good story