Well, Tolkien took elements from Christianity, paganism (mythology = polytheism), and other world religions of his time and combined them in a truly unique way to produce a story. That's all it is, a story.
BTW, this topic has been discussed many many times:
Tolkien, Lewis & Theology
Unintentional Religion in Tolkien's works?
Trilogy and Bible?
just to name a few...
Go to the search engine in the top right corner of the BD screen and type in Religion and search in Entire Message. You will find tons of information.
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