İşi mektuplarına götüreceksek eğer:Tamam sen bulamadıysan başka bir sebebi olamaz.
"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like ‘religion,’ to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism."
2 Aralık 1953, Robert Murray'e mektubu.
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."