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And surely the Bible can stand for itself - it does for me, and I neither want nor need imitations or allegories when I have access to the Real Thing.
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I do think that there is something to be said for allegorical treatments of Biblical stories - and I'm not even Christian. For example, Steinbeck's
East of Eden, which is basically a repetition of the story of Cain and Abel in each generation of a particular family. But then, this is not a simple retelling; it is an interpretation as well.
Of course, I don't mean to imply that there is any allegory in Tolkien. There simply is not.