Tolkien explicitly rejected his books being metaphors or allegories in the LotR preface. He further specifically rejected that characters or events in his mythopoetic narrative be taken as representing e.g. the Marxist movement. Read the original.
Tolkien had no warlocks. Merger of wizards with warlocks in modern parlance recalls multiple older roots in alchemy and folklore, in which various mages could be entrusted with assisting the flow of politics behind the scenes.
“You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power” (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 1995, p. 121.)
Tolkien explicitly rejected his books being metaphors or allegories in the LotR preface. He further specifically rejected that characters or events in his mythopoetic narrative be taken as representing e.g. the Marxist movement. Read the original.
Tolkien had no warlocks. Merger of wizards with warlocks in modern parlance recalls multiple older roots in alchemy and folklore, in which various mages could be entrusted with assisting the flow of politics behind the scenes.
“You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power” (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 1995, p. 121.)
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