No.778
>Tolkien says he's against allegory as a writing tool
>writes one big allegory about his entire life, his work, and even his religious upbringing/outlook
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No.780
>>778
I disagree that he made an allegory about his life. There are areas which clearly draw from Tolkien's life experiences I agree. I would argue however that these happened naturally as an outgrowth of Tolkien being a human shaped by the world and not as an intentional literary device. For example the seige of Minas Tirith was very vivid in creating the sense of stress and menace during a sustained war. Surely Tolkien knew what this situation felt like which shaped how it portrayed these events.
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No.798
Nothing was a direct allegory to his life. He wrote in themes that he considered universal, subcreation within creation which held a bit of the moral truth of the world. Naturally he focused on certain things that he knew best how to represent, such as his view on love, or how war is hell.
But even then, the way he wrote and presented them were fairly universal. You wouldn't know Beren and Lúthien were sort of stand ins for himself and his wife without searching into it.
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