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Don't think so. And unlike our world, and Narnia, Christ did not die and arise in Middle-earth - he never existed, as far as I am aware.
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In the 'Athrabeth Finrod Ah Andreth'
The incarnating of Eru
is specifically postulated as in the mind of Finrod a necessary corrctive to Morgoth's tainting of Arda, if in fact Finrod says , Morgoth changed the very nature of Man from mortal to immortal.
With that postulated, you are only a 1/2 step away from a Trinity. And in this sense following classical Trinitarian Theology [the agreed upon area's of the Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Coptic Churches] Eru Iluvatar who is seemingly 'sitting on a throne' in his 'halls' becomes Christ, the second person of the Trinity.
Now I am by no means saying JRRT took it this next step, but it certainly would have been the next one after the Athrabeth specualtions. He also stated in the Letters [and also in the LotR/Hobbit itself] that M-E is a myth of this world and so would inevitably lead in it's later ages [i.e. now] to our current history, and thus for JRRT his current Theology.