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A Mere Boggart
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Another thought....maybe Tolkien chose to make Sauron quite impersonal in Lord of the Rings in order to deliberately avoid readers making analogies with any particular one of the various 20th century dictators? He's more a symbol of totalitarianism than an allegory of any one dictator.
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