I suppose you could frame the Maiar as angels if you want, but it feels like a stretch. If they're angels, then every divine being that is not explicitly god i

I suppose you could frame the Maiar as angels if you want, but it feels like a stretch. If they're angels, then every divine being that is not explicitly god is an angel. There's definitely Christian morality at play in LOTR, but everything I've read from Tolkien's letters says that the works were not meant to be an allegory or based on Christianity. If you're going to apply Christian themes to LOTR, you might as well hit up Homer's works as well. It's a work by a Christian, not necessarily a work about Christianity.