[King of the North]

First off, the Lord of the Rings is not an allegory. Tolkien himself wrote it in the foreward to the Fellowship of the Ring. It is much more complex than that. It is simple minded to think that isengard represented Germany, that Rivendell represented Britian, or that the One Ring represented man's lust for power. I have read much about Professor Tolkien and his writing. He was a very very complex and brilliant man, he would not have made simple-minded allegories for each and every location, object, and person. In World War I, 2 close friends and members of the Tea Club and Barovian Society (TCBS) died, but only after writing him letters saying that if they die he has to carry on the torch and publish the first work, forged from the ideas and poetry of the Club. He now had a job to, and an important one at that. He wrote the LotR series with the utmost care to not make it simple, but to make a worthwhile read that sustained the ideas of the TCBS.