To address one point, > Tolkien didn't like allegories and insisted that the ring wasn't symbolic of anything The former is true, the latter is not: https://

To address one point, > Tolkien didn't like allegories and insisted that the ring wasn't symbolic of anything The former is true, the latter is not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205904