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To my mind, there are no (or few) "christian morals", or rather, they're little different from everyone else's morals. You do the right thing (because it's right or for a reward CF:Heaven), or you do the wrong thing. In other words, I can't tell whether or not Eru is THAT god or A god, they all look similar.
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So you have to look at God as not just a set of morals or else, yes, it is hard to tell whether he is "THAT God or A god."
I would say Middle-earth appeared to be governed by a moral code of some sort. That doesn't mean that it was a set of so called "Christian morals," though. All it means is that it wasn't a society where anything went.
But I would still say that Tolkien did not mean for Eru to be God [Jehovah].
*He did not pursue a personal relationship with what he created.
*He did not appear in ME that I'm entirely aware of, and he certainly never stayed there for any period of time nor made known to others who he was.
*He did not provide a way for all races to go to the Undying Lands.
Those are three examples that I could think of in the short time I had to post this. I still agree with Esty that, although there are certainly a fare share of parallels, Tolkien's Eru was not meant to be "THE God."