> Tolkien created a fictional world to tell a story and convey certain universal truths he felt were important Honestly I don’t really care if anyone wrote an

> Tolkien created a fictional world to tell a story and convey certain universal truths he felt were important Honestly I don’t really care if anyone wrote an allegory or not, but how is this different than writing an allegory? If I had to define what writing an allegory in fiction means I would probably use this exact phrasing.