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Of course it's not as deep as sacred books and books that are specifically made to be theological while historical but still :
>Tolkien wanted to create a mythology for great Britain
>Inspired himself of other ancient mythology
>Use symbols, make a cosmogony…
>Said he made it voluntarily christian in the second writing
>Talks about virtues of the nobility and of the ancients
>His work is in the straight line of traditional thinking (Tolkien being a traditional catholic), example of this can be found in his catachronic (opposite of progressive, I don't know the translation of this word in english) view of history.
While fantasy used the exterior appearance of lotr, there are not in the same category. Fantasy is a degenerate style (eragon, GoT, harry potter,…) which is now modern and totally against the deeper perspective of Tolkien. Also, I don't know, lotr seems quite complexe (I'm talking of the all Tolkien's universe).
tl;dr : I don't ask for dragons and elves, but for knights with virtues and for a traditional view.
