It was very interesting to read all your posts! I think Gwaihir summed it up pretty well in his last post.
Here is another quote that I found in one of Tolkien's letters (#131) which impressed me
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A moral of the whole (After the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and herioc is meaningless."
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