Tolkien's prose isn't biblical so much as it's imitation-Nordic, maybe. If you want biblical, read Blood Meridian. It's in fact so biblical that scholars use it

Tolkien's prose isn't biblical so much as it's imitation-Nordic, maybe. If you want biblical, read Blood Meridian. It's in fact so biblical that scholars use it as a reference when they translate the original text into contemporary English. It's also biblical in a much deeper sense, but that's a different point.