Authors frequently try to override what adoring readers and fans assert. Jo Rowling tried to redefine aspects of Potter-reality. Before being cancelled I think

Authors frequently try to override what adoring readers and fans assert. Jo Rowling tried to redefine aspects of Potter-reality. Before being cancelled I think her fans were split on that. Tolkien grew tired of constantly stating a committed believer could write sagas without explicit reference to Christianity and remain catholic. He also averred the evidence the LoTR was not a parable of ww2 was self evident since the ring was destroyed: had it been a parable the ring would be retained by men, and hobbits enslaved.