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I must take Tolkien at his word, and say that the war of the Ring is not World War Two, despite the similarities the reader may bring to it.
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I agree and I think it goes along with what
davem said earlier. Tolkien didn't intentionally write allegories in his stories, but you can find allegories in them. Simply, because I think it seems more general.
It's sort of like how you can always connect atleast one of the Seven Deadly sins to a bad guy, or one of the Seven Heavenly virtues to a good guy. You can connect things in LOTR and say, hey that sounds an awful like this. For instance, the example I used with Saruman destroying nature and acting like the industrial/scientific brain of his day. Wanting to know how things work, and how to improve.
Authors do intentionally use allegories. I know Henry James for one based his character Daisy in
Turn of the Screw off his wife. Where I don't think Tolkien purposefully put references to political, social...etc issues at the time. But, this is what he grew up around.